Filed under: Teens & tweens, Media, Gadgets & tech I guess teenagers really are the same everywhere. A new survey shows that the average teenager in the UK spends more than 80 hours a year looking at pornography on the Internet. That translates to an hour and 40 minutes a week. Of course, wa...

Filed under: Teens & tweens, Education 15-year-old Trenton O'Neal's parents were unhappy with his report card, so they forced him to wear a sandwich board for hours at a busy intersection in his hometown of Chesapeake, Virginia. The sign listed his grades and said "My Future = Shaky!" Unhappy wi...

Filed under: Fun & activities, Toys & games, That's entertainment If you haven't had the pleasure of playing Candy Land with your kids, I suggest you run right out, pick up a copy and sit down for a game tonight. Especially if your kids are teenagers. If they're little ones, however, here's ...

Filed under: 2Moms2Dads, Media, Extreme childhood When I first started reading CRISIS: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay In America, I did not expect any great revelations. Having grown up in San Francisco to become an outspoken supporter of e...

Filed under: Preschoolers, Weird but true, Alcohol & drugs If you've got a three-year-old child, I would think you would pretty much know where that kid is and what they're doing at all times. At least, that's the way I've always done it. Twenty-four-year-old Kelly Marie Pocock of London, howeve...

Filed under: Development, Life & style, Celeb parenting Okay, so there's that pesky economy to fix, the educational system to support, wars to be ended, a national reputation to be restored ... Barack Obama has a lot on his agenda now that he has officially been sworn in as President. There's on...

Filed under: Teens & tweens, Media I try not to swear. I say things like "shoot" or "fiddlesticks", but my kids have indeed heard my say things I couldn't say on television. Especially when doing battle with Microsoft products. Still, we do try to set a good example and we don't hang around with...

Filed under: Kids 5-7, Love & sex, Toys & games What would you think if you saw a girl wearing a belt with a buckle that said "Enter"? You know, right there above that bit of anatomy that teenage boys are always trying to figure out to get into? Yeah, that's what I'd be thinking too. And if ...

Filed under: Teens & tweens, Weird but true, Education I don't know about you, but if I were going to steal a car, I don't think I'd bother going to school that day. I mean, if you're going to commit a felony, what's a little truancy on the side? I'd take that car and head for the beach or the m...

Filed under: Newborns, Pregnancy & birth, Weird but true All newborns look like deformed lizards. For whatever reason, parents just don't realize it (otherwise, why would they take the screaming little lizard home from the hospital with them?) But what about before they come out of the womb? Who...