Parenting

Dad — the man who brings home the bacon so you could buy the cleats you needed to look good while picking your nose and facing the wrong way during your unmemorable season playing right field in Little League.

Isn't it funny what things will quiet and calm and fussy baby? For this adorable but fussy baby, the theme to Parks and Recreation turns that frown upside down.

If you're saying what's lingo..then this is for you!  Your child's life can be very apparent just through simple things that parents don't understand: like word choice, etc.  What is your teen really mean when he says stuff to you?

"Sleep, tis such a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given, she sent the gentle sleep from heaven, that slid into my soul." Impressed? I think that is from the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, and as someone who values sleep those words mean a lot. So do you have a child that won't go to sleep? I've got two of them. Let's read on and fix this for both of

Is there a more wonderful sound to the ears of a parent than the sound of a baby laughing. I remember when I used make funny faces at my kids and they would crack up laughing. Now, since they are teenagers, they just ignore me and hope that I will move on to something else and leave them alone. But if you are blessed with a tiny bundle of joy or maybe you now have the role of grandparent, here are