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Snow Day Activities Can Help Build a Child’s Resilience

Fill the next snow day with teachable moments.

Tips for a Safe and Healthy Home

Hidden dangers can lurk in even the tidiest of homes. Learn how to perform a safety audit and make the changes necessary to keep your family safe.

Later Gator Nutcracker

In this classic Christmas post, watching The Nutcracker on TV becomes a family event, put to rhyme by blogger Marion Kase.

Tips for a healthy media diet

With TV, computers, video games, smartphones and other devices vying for kids’ attention, helping them manage their media habits is a major challenge.

3D Living — A Haiku (and a post)

Blogger Brandi Jeter is moved to poetry after going without television for three weeks.

Philly Kid Wins TV Music Contest

Michael Woodard, 13, has won the inaugural season of "Majors and Minors," a music reality series on The Hub Television Network.

The Color Complex

Mom blogger Rachée reacts to another child's comments about her daughter's skin color.

Lights, Camera, Action!

Film and TV camps give kids friends, skills and exposure to careers.

The Battle of the Screens

Blogger Jo-Lynne Shane grapples with the question of how much TV time her kids should be allowed.

Docs Urge Parents To Limit Screen Time for Kids Younger than Age 2

Despite recommendations to the contrary, it's well known that most parents of kids younger than age 2 let them watch at least some TV, smart phone or other screen entertainment. In a nod to this reality, the nation's pediatricians have…

Baby Safety Products for $100 or Less

The cost of caution keeps coming down. Here's a sampling of modestly priced, widely available products

Docs Urge Focus on Kids' Media Use

In a new policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics urges doctors, schools and parents to focus on kids use of the Internet, TV, cell phones and other media.

Screen Time Linked To Psychological Woes

Children who spend more than two hours a day in front of a TV or computer are more likely to have psychological difficulty, according to a new British study.