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Remember candy cigarettes? So much fun pretending to be so bad? I haven't seen them on store shelves for years, so I've got to assume marketers saw the danger of hooking kids with candy. But I wonder: is the new trend toward diguising kids medicines as gummy candies really any better? The gelatinous blobs have sold like hotcakes to ...

They're seeing double at Armstrong Elementary School in Garland, Texas. And double. And double. The small Texas school has just five hundred thirty-nine students - and thirty-eight of them are twins. There are nine sets in the second grade alone.  It's surely a sign of the trend toward twins - spurred on by fertility interventions. ...

When I first read that more parents are going online after their kids get sick, I had thoughts of hundreds of graduates of Google University picking fights with the med. school grads trying to take care of their kids.  Good news: that's not what this story is about.  Not that parents can't find some good quality health ...

If you're looking for some trick answer here, I'm sorry to disappoint. A simple but brilliant advertising campaign about tolerance in the Middle East sporting a nearly identical set of kids actually depicts two kids who share no blood. They've never even met.  But the Israeli girl looks an awful lot like the Palestinian boy ...

How many times have you heard someone in marital distress say they're just trying to make it through for the kids? Might want to give them a hug next time and tell them they shouldn't worry about it.  A new study has found what plenty of kids of bitter, bickering parents already knew: staying together for the kids doesn't ...

Let me just say I love summer festivals. But I can't stand the people who man booths at said summer festivals.  They need to get a grip on BOUNDARIES. I took my daughter to a local "pet and animal" festival over the weekend along with one of my best friends and her son. Feeding ponies, petting goats and picking up bunnies was ...

He ponied up for Mother's Day, so now it's time to get cracking on how to make Dad's day. Lucky for you, we were wondering too. So we're offering up seven days of what we'll be giving the guy who reads bedtime stories and changes stinky diapers. For dads whose playlist can't handle one more "waaaah" or ...

So Melissa Joan Hart packed on the pounds during her pregnancy. That makes her different from any other pregnant woman in America, how? The former Sabrina the Teenage Witch star showed off her bikini-worthy bod in People last week, but it was her words that cut deep into the psyches of moms everywhere.  A picture of her post-partum at one ...

I got a bit ferklempt watching the recent New York Times video of a May Lee Wong, a NYC principal who just adopted a little girl from Ethiopia after giving birth to three boys. Maybe it was the fact that the little girl, Mebrat, was thought to be three-years-old when she came to the Wong family but was, in fact, a malnourished ...

Summer vacation is coming. Whether you'll be packing the kids up for a trip to grandma's or getting a vacation yourself, you can't go wrong with these picks for packing: 1. Little Passenger Sparky Junior Travel Backpack - They'll be so busy making their way through the adventures in this car-shaped backpack, they'll forget to ...