Parenting

Have we gotten to the point now where we are preferring to use technology to help us raise our kids?

Should parents give their kids an allowance for doing their household chores?

This is good advice for parents

For kids to have the best chance at success in the new school year, it's imperative parents know how to make sure their kids get enough sleep for back to school.

It's a question every parent deals with. When is it safe, responsible, and legal to leave my child alone?

Free Beer and his wife are expecting twins early this summer. There are two names that they are going back and forth between. Free Beer wants one of them; his wife wants the other.

Last week, a guy near Minneapolis, Brad Knudson, of Prior Lake, Minn., posted a video about two kids who bullied his daughter and used the n-word. He explained that he called the kids' dad about it, but that the guy was a allegedly even bigger a-hole.

This dad and daughter had a deal: Dad makes a difficult trick basketball shot and he never has to give his daughter another cent for anything! What could go wrong for the daughter? The shot will be impossible! Well, maybe not that impossible after all ... .

Setting "screen-time limits" on iPads and computers is now a commonly debated topic between children and parents. Although items such as smartphones, tablets, and computers tend to entertain children easily, are we to blame children for his or her claimed laziness?