All About Parenting

I’m working on a project for a class and I have to make a poster about the type of skills you need to be a good responsible parent…

James*, 15, sits in front of his computer, simultaneously IMing his friends, checking his fantasy basketball stats, and looking up the price of a pair of sneakers.  He is also listening to his ipod and occasionally flipping through the pages of a sports magazine.  If you ask him what he is doing, he will say [...]

I’ve noticed such an overall decline in parenting standards in the last 10 to 15 years (as evidenced by what I’ve noticed to be a real growth in poorly behaved children and blasé parental response and proactiveness).
I’ve read that this might in part be due to everythign from a post 9-11 ‘baby spike’ to the [...]

Parenting has never been easy. Most of the time we do not see the work involved in raising children when we see them smartly dressed and good mannered. Behind those beautiful beings there are dedicated and loving parents. Life is not a rigid entity and it accommodates a lot of differences. There are single families [...]

I am 17 and my mom gave me her credit card to go buy an xbox 360. Am i legal to do this?

Recently I went through a lot of case studies of children and found out a tons of information that connected to our education system. Different country carry different form of education system, but I wonder sometime does it help? The education system that I was under was base on an old concept. Learning without exploring [...]

I’m looking for some good parenting books, does anyone have any books that they have read that they have found very useful? My baby is 9 months old, I’m looking for books for around that age.

How do parents who don’t have a clue about home education /how it’s structured learn how to organise this? can a parent who isn’t a teacher/isn’t up to date with all the subjects still teach the child?

The reason I ask is that I’ve been collecting parenting books and magazines ever since I got married, hoping that soon we’d have a baby. Well, I’m still waiting for my dream to come true so I’ve been faithfully holding on to them. But now, I’m wondering if they need to be tossed. [...]

I am currently in early stages of no fault divorce (in PA). We have agreed on sharing physical & legal custody of 2 kids. Must one parent be named Custodial and the other Non-custodial in divorce decree? What advantage/disadvantages would being named non custodial be down the road? I make more [...]