Dame Jacqueline Wilson voiced frustration at publishers' insistence that her books should appear in pink covers because they know it is likely to boost sales.

She said the practice was "pigeonholing" girls while also putting boys off reading her stories. Read on.

Parents may think they can keep their kids safe by hovering over them, but a new study finds that children of overprotective parents are more likely to be bullied.

And on the other end of the spectrum, having abusive or neglectful parents also seems to make kids a target for bullies, according to an analysis of 70 studies that included more than 200,000 children. Read on

The Sydney Philharmonia Choirs sing a 'modified' version of Carmina Burana. Read on.

SEATTLE -- In Laurie Pearson's kindergarten classroom at Lake Forest Park Elementary, students stand at attention. Pearson knows the silence won't last long and that she needs to be quick with her instructions. Read on.

Digital parenting is just plain hard. Tim Woda, co-founder of UknowKids.com, understands this and is trying to help parents in the Internet age.

"Answer me this -- do you know who your child made friends with on Facebook yesterday?" Woda poses this question whenever he discusses Internet safety with concerned parents. Read on.

"Where's your baby?" said the mother to her sobbing 3-year-old daughter. "You need your baby!"

Her older daughter began digging through the two large diaper bags, and triumphantly extracted a fuzzy pink blanket. The 3-year-old grabbed the blanket and tucked it up under her chin, gripping it tightly. "There's your baby!" the mother and the older sister said in unison. The crying subsided, and we went on with the medical exam. Read on.

For nine years, the greatest challenge Kim Yates Grosso faced each day was keeping her daughter Tessa safe. Tessa was so severely allergic to milk, wheat, eggs, nuts, shellfish and assorted other foods that as a toddler she went into anaphylactic shock when milk fell on her skin. Kim never left her with a baby sitter. Read on.

Eight years ago, Margaret Meder's world was turned upside down. After having a seemingly normal second pregnancy, Meder was shocked to discover at her son Evan's birth that he had so many physical anomalies.

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The chicken pox vaccine worked.

The day before one of my closest friends was due to visit, she called me from the emergency room of a nearby city (her visit was part of a longer trip to the East Coast). Her oldest child, 10, had come down with chicken pox. Read on.

A seismic shift is under way. The fastest-growing religious affiliation in the country is now...no affiliation at all. Many adults are simply leaving religion behind. But as they become parents they're confronting an uneasy question: What about the kids? Read On.

Christmas gift ideas: Top 10 presents for babies and toddlers

Our pick of the best Christmas presents for babies and toddlers. Raed on.

Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse. Read on.

Forgive the elegiac lyricism, but a provocative new child-rearing book, How Children Succeed, is sweeping America and devastating New York's pushiest parents, who are being told, in no uncertain terms, that they are doing more harm than good. Read on.

Each day, more and more of our daily activities are digitized. A few years ago, my Mom wrote her grocery list on the fridge; now she uses her phone. When I was a teenager, I studied for the SAT using flashcards; now my 17-year-old sister uses SAT websites, iPad games and YouTube videos. My grandma was the queen of scrapbooking with scissors and glue, but recently she sent me an invite to Pinterest to view her latest scrapbooking collections! Read on.

Halloween is approaching and it's time to settle on that perfect Halloween costume idea for your baby. If you have a big kid, we suspect they've had their costumes (parent-approved or not) picked out since July. Read on.