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  • Traveling With a Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] If you and spouse, love to travel, there is no reason why you have to stop traveling with the arrival of baby. The packing for the kids when traveling will need some fore thinking. But if you know the basics, you can pack sensibly and travel happily even with kids.


  • Card Games For Budget-Conscious Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Cards are a great accessory to have around when you have kids. They are portable, easy-to-find, and cheap. And, after the kids are in bed, you can play gin rummy or poker with your spouse.


  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
    [Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Sudden Infant Death syndrome (SIDS) is defined as the sudden, unexplained death of an infant, and is the one of the main causes of death among infants between a month and a year. SIDS is said to occur only when no possible explanation can be found


  • Know the Pros and Cons of Co-Sleeping
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Find advantages and disadvantages of co-sleeping with your baby. Articles on negative effects of co-sleeping and keeping baby safe. Cosleeping is a widespread practice in many non-Western cultures. However, differences in mattresses, bedding, and other cultural practices may account for the lower risk in these countries as compared with the United States.


  • Traveling With a Baby on a Plane
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Babies under two years still travel free on the lap, though there are rumors that this perk may soon be coming to an end. Most airlines charge a hefty service fee ($100 on United) for overseas flights for the same privilege, of traveling with babies. Before you even consider buying that extra seat until they are over two, remember that the baby will probably be on your lap anyway during the entire flights.


  • Travel Tips For Dads With Babies
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Summer is here and time is right for dancing in the streets. Well, maybe not, if you have little kids under your supervision.


  • Eight Baby and Kid Sleep Tricks Your Doctor Will Never Tell You
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Face it. Doctors are pretty lame with practical advice on stuff that should come naturally to babies. So here are a few tricks we've picked - none risky, we promise - that might help you get your baby to sleep or back on track sleep-wise.


  • Three Great Classic Games For Kids 4-6
    [Kids-and-Teens] These are child-tested by my 6 year-old who never seems to tire of them. Parents will enjoy all of the games once, but my money is on the card games for games that parents can endure time and time again.


  • Two Great Father's Day Gifts For Divorced Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] We have plenty of other gift ideas for dads in general, but here are two good gifts for divorced dads, probably from friends or family interested in supporting dads' relationships with kids who may not even be in the same city. Both are also wonderful presents for dads who "can't be there" whether due to business travel or military service.


  • Different Positions For Childbirth
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] At this point in her pregnancy, your spouse should give a thought to the birthing position that she would prefer for her delivery. Each position has its advantages and disadvantages. Your spouse can opt for the one with which she would be most comfortable.


  • Using Parenting Skills to Include Kid Friendly Exercises and Bond With Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Many fathers live a well-rounded healthy lifestyle with regular workouts that involve their kids. First-time dads who think a new baby will interfere with their exercise schedule need not sacrifice their workouts but do need to supplement their parenting skills to include exercising with their kids.


  • 'Baby' Fat - Cute No More!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] The Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center says that being over weight early on in life leads to life threatening troubles in the future even if the child loses those extra pounds later on in life. Babies who were on the heavier side are more prone to suffer from arthritis and atherosclerosis in the later stages of their life.


  • Tips to Help Pets and Toddlers Get Along With Each Other
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] There is one thing in common between pets and toddlers in your household - both of them crave your love and attention, and both of them require your utmost care. If a pet has been staying in the household much before an toddler has come to stay there, the pet may feel threatened and even jealous of the attention given to the new toddler.


  • Child Hygiene Tips - Unwashed Hands Hazards
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] You never know where your children have been and what they have been up to till you see their hands. Toddlers tend to collect germs on their hands from a variety of sources - contaminated surfaces, foods, even animals and animal waste.


  • Helping Your Child Make the Transition From Crib to Bed
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Around this age, your toddler would be big enough to outgrow the crib. This is an indication that it is time for a toddler bed. However, the transition from a crib to a toddler bed may not be very easy and smooth for the toddler.


  • Accurately Calculate Medicine Dosages
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Most parents face the ongoing problem of accurately calculating toddler medicine dosages and fear the risk of giving their toddlers the wrong dosage. While giving infant medication, the dosage specifications marked on the label are in ml's (milliliters) or cc's (cubic centimeters).


  • Checking Up on Your Nanny
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] If you did all the background and reference checks on your nanny beforehand, chances are you have a nanny you can be sure of. However, if you didn't do full due diligence or if your nanny had no prior experience or references, and you have concerns, here are some warning signs of a "bad nanny."


  • Thumb Sucking in Babies
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Most babies and young children tend to suck their thumbs. While you may be concerned about your child's habit, it is actually quite harmless.


  • Brainstorming Names For Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Sure, you can wade through 60,000 names and look for the one that catches your fancy. Another approach is to sit down with a glass of wine (grape juice for mom-to-be) and make the following questions into a game.


  • Vacation Getaways For Kids and Dads
    [Travel-and-Leisure] During vacation time, it is important that you get down to planning things together so that each family member can voice his choice of destination. A few time-tested vacation ideas or must-see places for dads and kids are suggested below.


  • Smart Ways to Deal With a Dirty Diaper While Out Shopping
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] It is a scenario dreaded by most new dads. You are out, maybe enjoying a nice afternoon's shopping with your baby and your baby chooses just this time to poop. You've been lucky up until now and you've either avoided the task entirely or only had to make the change in the baby nursery with all the accouterments around you.


  • Know the Toddler Phase
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] The toddler phase in a child's life can be sharply marked by an increasing need to assert its independence. This will be a time fraught with challenges for you, as you try to support your toddlers' impulses to explore his environment, while also safeguarding them from any harm.


  • Trimming Your Baby's Nails
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Even when babies are young, their nails are quite sharp. This can easily lead to babies injuring either themselves or adults who are handling them. To avoid this, it is essential that you start trimming children's nails from the time they are still young.


  • Is it Normal For Your Baby to Suddenly Develop Shyness?
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Shyness is a normal response seen in infants to an overwhelming social experience. Such children may or may not retain this behavior for life. Remember that shyness is not abnormal and is a phase of the development process.


  • How Can You Be Tactful With Unwanted Advice?
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] If you are a new dad, you may often receive unsolicited advice on how to bring up your baby. Close friends or family members may typically offer this. Casual acquaintances and even total strangers may add their bit.


  • Moving is the Best Exercise For Babies
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] We know that exercise is important for our health as adults, but did you know that the same philosophy applies to babies? It is recommended that babies should work their muscles at least half-hour each day, although not necessarily all at once.


  • Dine Out With Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Just because you are a parent now does not mean you can't occasionally dine out without feeling guilty about leaving the baby at home. The problem is that your baby, who may not find the prospect highly exciting, could end up feeling bored or neglected. A little forethought and planning however can ensure that eating out will be as much fun for you as for your child.


  • Preparing Kids For the Challenges of the First Days of School
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] It's hard to imagine what goes on in a little one's mind when he goes to the big school, but you can help him overcome some fears by talking to him before hand. For example, many kids at pre-school and even kindergarten level, are nervous about the bathroom. Reassure your child that he can ask to go any time.


  • Basic Dining Etiquette For Little Kids to Learn
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Like a lot of stuff in parenting, consistency and patience are by-words and yes, you can teach a toddler new tricks. Here are the basic etiquette skills little ones should have.


  • Teach by Setting Examples
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] If you are looking for a great way to make sure your children are off to a healthy start, don't overlook the importance of a nutritious breakfast. According to the American Dietetic Association (ADA), when children are consistent about eating breakfast each day, they tend to consume more calories than those that don't, but they are less likely to be overweight. Furthermore, not eating breakfast may predispose them to diets that fall short of providing enough calcium and fiber.


  • 10 Ways to Tell If Your Baby Has Allergies and Not Just a Cold
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Many of the symptoms of nasal allergies (also known as allergic rhinitis) are similar to those of cold symptoms: runny nose, watery eyes, cough, nasal congestion, sneezing. Many times parents are confused on whether their child has a long-term cold or allergies.


  • Adenovirus, What's That?
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Adenoviruses are viruses affecting both humans and animals and were initially isolated in human adenoids (tonsils)-hence the name. The infections caused by these viruses tend to cause illnesses mainly in your toddlers' respiratory system.


  • Taking Your Baby For First Shots
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Babies usually make their first visit to the hospital by the age of two months. Even if your baby appears healthy, it is important for you to make an appointment for a routine checkup.


  • Eating Unnatural Or Inedible Substances - Harmful For Your Child Or Not
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Pica is an eating disorder relating to the consumption of non-nutritive substances. It's common for children to put all sorts of things, from clay and dirt, to crayons, in their mouths.


  • Constipation - How Can You Protect Your Baby From the Pain?
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Constipation is defined as difficulties in bowel movements characterized by hard or firm stools and irregular or infrequent bowel movement. It is labeled chronic if the symptoms are present for more than two weeks.


  • Baby Cold - How to Prevent Your Baby From Colds
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Common cold is simply an infection that affects the nose and respiratory tracts. More than 200 different viruses can cause a cold. Babies, in particular, are more vulnerable, because their immune systems are not completely developed.


  • Autism - Early Signs in Babies
    [Health-and-Fitness:Autism] The World Health Organization or (WHO) and American Psychological Association or (APA) recognize autism as a developmental disability resulting from disorders of the central human nervous system. Though the most apparent signs of autism in children are visible at two or three years of age, parents should also be wary of symptoms of this disorder in their infants.


  • Sunlight - How Can You Protect Your Baby Against Its Ill Effects?
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Even though babies are supposed to stay indoors, warmly cuddled in their mother's bosoms, they may need to be taken out for regular check-ups to the doctor and other outdoor baby adventures. Even though sunlight contains vitamin D which is essential to your child's health, prolonged exposure to sunlight is harmful for your baby.


  • Help Your Child Cope With Colic
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Colic is a health condition characterized by long and repeated bouts of crying seen in otherwise healthy infants. The causes of colic are not known, and though some believe that there is no such thing as colic, acute abdominal pain is believed to cause the symptoms.


  • Diagnosing Asthma in Babies
    [Health-and-Fitness:Asthma] Babies are susceptible to respiratory infections and may commonly be seen coughing or wheezing. However, mostly these symptoms are related to colds, or infections of the upper respiratory tract. However, coughing or wheezing may also indicate asthma.


  • Childhood Diseases - Chickenpox Symptoms and Surviving the Pox
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Chickenpox is the common name for Varicella simplex, a disease that mainly affects children. Until recently, chickenpox manifested itself so frequently as a disease, that it came to be recognized almost as a rite of passage for childhood.


  • Helping Your Kids and Family to Cut Down on Sugar and Sweets
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Face it: the United States runs on sugar. This is not a good thing. A recent study in the International journal of Pediatric Obesity says that nearly half of American kids will be overweight by 2010.


  • Tips For Dealing With Bad Breath in Toddlers
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Bad breath (halitosis) in toddlers tends to surprise parents as it is generally thought to occur only in grown-ups. Leftover food particles could cause breath odor in a healthy child.


  • Accurate Acetaminophen Dosage
    [Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Acetaminophen is one of the most common drugs administered to children. The drug is commonly given as a cure for fever and pain. Yet, for dads, it can be one of the most challenging drugs to give a dosage correctly.


  • Giving CPR to Toddlers
    [Reference-and-Education:Survival-and-Emergency] Choking can be fatal and a doctor is your first recourse in such a situation. Call 911 or your local emergency number before you do anything else.


  • Protecting Your Child Against Poisoning
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] With toddlers in your home, poisoning is another potential danger you have to come to grips with. Their curiosity might induce them to ingest, or come in contact with, toxic substances that could be harmful to them.


  • Tips For Dads Trying to Cut Down on Kids' TV Watching Time
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] We like TV. After a long day at work, it's like a frothy dessert at the end of a mediocre meal. It might not have any nutrition value, but it's sweet and airy and enjoyable with very little effort. However, when TV becomes the routine and more your reality than your real life, you or your kids might have a problem.


  • Child Behavior Suggestions - Cleaning Up Their Mess
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Are you tired of your kids acting like royalty around the house? Making a mess of their rooms as they throw away their clothes and food, expecting you to go picking after them?


  • Run! It's Lice!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] I guess at some point in America's history, lice was public health issue that carried a stigma. Now, it just seems to be added to the list of elementary school rites of passage. As a parent, you hear about lice as if it's a foreign country, and then one day, it's here, and your little child has it!


  • Common Child Behavior - Whining
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Kids whine when they are hungry, tired, bored or if they are sick. But they also whine when they need attention from their parents. Parents tend to worry, and not without good reason, that their children will grow up to be whiners and never be anything less than miserable in their behavior.


  • Tips on How to Deal With Toddler Tantrums
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Toddlers may throw tantrums from time to time. As a parent, you have no choice but to put up with it or try to subdue your toddler.


  • Head Banging in Children
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Head banging is a behavior characterized by a toddler's repeated banging his or her head, against a solid surface or object such as a wall or the side of a crib. It is estimated that one-fifth of all healthy children display this behavior at least once during their infancy.


  • Finding the Right Mother's Day Flowers
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Flowers are an easy mom-pleasing gift for Mother's Day. You can usually find them at a local grocery store or have them express delivered via the internet. You don't have to go way overboard on pricing unless you want to. On the other hand, since most guys don't buy flowers very often, you need to know a few things before you make the wrong decision on Mother's Day flowers.


  • Eight Tips For Dads Trying to Feed Finicky Eaters
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Trying to feed kids can be very frustrating. Cooking is hard work and you also want to make sure they get the foods they need and learn good eating habits. Here are eight tips to help you feed the picky eater.


  • Help Your Baby Communicate With You
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] As babies grow up, their efforts at communication become increasingly complex. Apart from trying to speak, they may also attempt use gestures to convey. These are some of the ways in which babies may try to communicate with you.


  • How to Play With Your Ten Month Old Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Babies around ten months of age will enjoy being introduced to new toys or games. This is because they become increasingly curious and variety stimulates them. Exposure to newer experiences helps their ability to perceive and understand things better.


  • Know Why Kids Scribble
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Most children are fascinated by the possibilities of a pencil or crayon stub and become engrossed in their activity as they scribble away for hours. As a parent, you may find this a heaven-sent solution to keep your kids quiet and relaxed in their own self-contained zone.


  • Frugal Living Tips For New Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] With a recession in full swing, and the possibility of more to come, new dads have to figure out how to cut costs even with a baby on the way. Here are a few frugal living tips.


  • Inexpensive Birthday Party Games For Dads on a Budget
    [Home-and-Family:Parties] You don't have to hire a magician or a pony to make a child's birthday party a success. The only real expense you might have to endure is birthday cake and ice cream.


  • Top Five Mother's Day Gift Ideas
    [Home-and-Family:Motherhood] Finding the right gift for Mother's Day doesn't have to take a long time or even break the bank. Here are some unique ideas for this mother's day.


  • Top Ways to Tell If Your Wife is Pregnant - Maybe Even Before She Does
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Pregnancy is usually accompanied by a number of telltale signs. If your spouse is pregnant, these pregnancy symptoms will most likely let you know-much before a medical test confirms your happy suspicion.


  • Celebrate Your Toddler's First Birthday
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] It's been almost a year since your baby was born. Twelve unforgettable months have gone by. This calls for a celebration.


  • Four Toys Worth Having Kids For
    [Kids-and-Teens] So, okay, be honest... when you were little you imagined that one day you would grow up and no one would be always telling you what not to do. You would go to an amusement park all day, you would stay in the pool an extra hour, you would stay at the ball game until the end of the 9th, rather than leaving in the 8th to avoid the crowds. Some day, you would have a big slot car set and a train that ran from room to room, a remote powered boat for the pond, and maybe even a personal helicopter. And then adulthood crept in and for most of us found new people to "suggest" to us that we didn't really want these things anymore.


  • How to Interact With Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Do you think that your baby is too young for you to enjoy interacting with him? Think again. There is a lot you can do, using baby sign language, that will be fun for both of you. Additionally, it will also have a beneficial effect on your baby's development.


  • Stand Up Toilet Training
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Quantitative research conducted independently of over 400 children shows that boys trained in a standing position reached success two months earlier. Since the majority of these 'standing boys' were trained with a step stool/toilet method, the Peter Potty may make earlier success possible because of the features of this potty training accessory. Anecdotal evidence suggests perhaps as much as six months faster.


  • Important Child Development Stages
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] In this article we list some of the most important stages of child development. Such stages can be categorized into social & emotional development and language development.


  • Mother's Day Gifts For All Types of Moms
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Here are some great gift ideas divided into categories of moms. Different gifts are to be chosen depending on whether its a new mom, working mom, mom loves music and entertainment.


  • Naming Trends
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Naming a child can be tricky. While selecting names for their children, many parents simply pick names they like. Others however may be influenced, consciously or not, by popular trends.


  • Baby Names - Do's and Don'ts
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Here is a list of some of the important do's and dont's related to selecting the right baby name. One example would be - Don't name your baby with terms that have slang meanings related to parts of the human anatomy.


  • 3rd Trimester - Changes in Your Spouse's Body
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, some of the same discomforts your spouse had in your second trimester will continue. Plus, many women find breathing even more difficult and notice they have to go to the bathroom even more often. This is because the baby is getting bigger and it is putting more pressure on her organs.


  • How Can You Be Less Anxious When Your Spouse is Pregnant?
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Life as a to-be father is wonderful. However, it can also be a bit scary. It is quite unlike anything you have experienced before and you find yourself oscillating between conflicting emotions. You are going to be a dad, and that, of course, makes you jubilant. However, you may find yourself grappling with unknown fears and anxieties.


  • 21 Potty Training Tips
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Potty training experts are everywhere. Whether family, friends, or books are providing you advice, realize there are different approaches that can be tried. An approach that works for one child may not work for another. Others can provide advice, but most likely you know what approach will work best for your child. There are several helpful guidelines (tips) that can be tried for each child when trying to potty train.


  • Mother's Day Cards - Gift Guide For Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Motherhood] You can always run down to the drugstore and buy a $3 Mother's Day card. Few of us are poets and the cards often say in words what we can only feel in our hearts about the special moms in our lives. On the other hand, it's sometimes hard for moms to feel those sentiments written in someone else's hand.


  • Eight Best Mother's Day Activities
    [Home-and-Family:Motherhood] Whoever said Mother's Day was important only for the mom did not really get the point here. True, Mother's Day celebrates that glorious ideal of love and sacrifice called motherhood.


  • Dads Guide to the Ages of Kids For Starting Sports
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] A lot of the fun of being a dad is helping kids discover their passions, and that starts with sharing what turns you on. Here's a quick look at when many kids are ready to experiment with different sports.


  • Tips on Choosing Childbirth Options - Tips For Expectant Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] This may be a good time during the pregnancy for your spouse to give a thought to the manner of delivery she wishes to opt for. The options- natural, induced, or cesarean all have their pros and cons.


  • What to Include in a Babysitter's Checklist
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] A babysitter checklist is a good step to organizing important information and feeling safer when your babysitter is alone with the baby. It can help with your peace of mind and make the babysitter's job easier.


  • Factors That Impact Babysitter Rates
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Babysitter rates are not usually defined. Although babysitters put up their expectations on their online profiles based on their personal achievements and the hourly payment pattern, babysitter rates still vary as no two babysitters hold the same responsibilities.


  • Do You Need a Professional Babysitter?
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] All parents, at some point or the other, will need to hire the services of a babysitter. However, for many parents, this is easier said than done.


  • Chores For Money
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] If your child is older than five, you've probably already started an allowance. By age six or seven, you also might have started giving weekly chore assignments. You may have also debated the value of tying the two together and entered into yet another debate on parenting.


  • Bonding With Your Kids - Advice For Dad
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] As a dad, you want to make sure you do everything to make everyday a memorable day to your kids and family. Breadwinner dads often need to be creative regarding things to do with their kids. Here are some tips to help dads bond with their kids.


  • How to Take Your Baby's Temperature
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] If you suspect your baby feels warmer than usual you may need to check for fever. You can take your child's temperature in these ways.


  • Know More About Postpartum Depression in Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Postpartum depression is traditionally thought to affect exclusively moms as they are the ones who go through the most significant changes in their bodies and their psyches. But about ten percent of all fathers in the U. S. are affected by postpartum depression.


  • No Reservations About Mother's Day
    [Home-and-Family:Motherhood] Forget the card and the lines at restaurants. Do everything from scratch this year. Have the kids make their own cards and make breakfast at home.


  • Being a Single Teen Parent is Not Easy
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Nobody ever said single parenting is easy. As parents, we all learn with time. However, too often, the pressure of single parenting can be so overwhelming that it's easy to make mistakes.


  • Tips For Baby Pacifiers
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] By now you have noticed that your baby sucks his fingers and hands a lot. Sucking brings pleasure to a baby. Many parents buy pacifiers for their babies. Here are some points to keep in mind while buying pacifiers.


  • Choosing a Quality Daycare For Your Child
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Finding a quality day care center or provider can be incredibly stressful. Here is how you can select a good daycare center for your child.


  • Time to Show You Care For Your Expectant Spouse
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Show Your expectant spouse that you care for her. Your caring behavior will help her to ease, be relax and happy during her pregnancy.


  • How to Keep Love Alive During Pregnancy
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Find articles on how to pamper your pregnant wife during her pregnancy. Advice and tips for expectant dads on how to love and care for your newly pregnant wife.


  • Making a Paper Doll Chain With Your Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] Making a paper doll chain is a perfect activity for dads and children. Find out more kids activities to spend time with your kids.


  • Valentines Day Roses - Symbol of Love
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Valentine's Day celebrates romance. Rose, also known as the flower of love, is one of the oldest flowers known to man. There is a lot of thought behind giving roses on Valentine's Day.


  • Tips on How to Write a Valentine's Day Poem
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] It is not every day that you celebrate love and affection St. Valentine's way. There are many rituals associated with Valentine's Day celebrations, including expressing your love through poetry. Nothing overwhelms a woman like a poem, whether simple, sappy, or intense. Poems give you a medium to express your deepest emotions in a brand new way.


  • Valentines Day Crafts Ideas For Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] A small gift, a favor, an out-of-your-way effort-there are many ways to express your heart on Valentine day. Hand-made crafts are an instant hit when it comes to gifts-they not only are beautiful but also appreciated more because of the effort put into creating them. Introduce Valentine's Day craft ideas in your family and convert your home into an activity center - the kids will love making these interesting crafts and giving them to people who mean a lot to them.


  • Ages to Start a Musical Instrument With a Child
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Learn to play a musical instrument along with your child. It is a great bonding idea.


  • Improve Your Baby's Table Manners
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Well-behaved children are a joy to have around you. On the other hand, misbehaved children are a constant source of worry, trouble and unhappiness. The more disciplined and consistent you are, the more disciplined and consistent your child will be.


  • Introduce Your Toddler to Music
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Yes! Music is fun for your kids and a great way for you to connect with your toddlers. Here are some of the great things that music can do for your children.


  • Dad's Guide to Raising Over-Scheduled Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] This is hard to do in a world with so much to do and only 24 hours a day to do it. Decide that parenting is going to be your number one priority. Here are a few warning signs that your child is overbooked and over-extended.


  • Babysitter Games For Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Babysitting is a job that requires endless energy. Either you keep the kids occupied or they keep you on your toes. If you are taking care of more than one child, these group activities can be organized.


  • Pregnancy and Folic Acid
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Planning a baby? If your wife is trying to get pregnant, getting plenty of folic acid is important to help lower the risk of a baby with a neural tube defect such as spina bifida or anencephaly.


  • Birth Control Pills and HIV
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diseases-STDs] Will birth control pills protect us from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and other STDs? Some people are misled to believe that if they take birth control pills, they are protecting themselves not only from getting pregnant but also from infection with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).


  • Top 7 Useful Tips For Valentine's Day
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] 1. Make Valentine's Day a Family Affair: Use the Valentine's Day holiday to discuss with your kids the nature of romantic love, and your feelings for their mother. Open up to them, and share your feelings deeply, so they can see you as a complete person, not just a dad.


  • Valentine's Day Gift Ideas For Your Dad
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Valentine's Day is the time to express our feelings for the people we love. Here are some general tips on selecting Valentine's Day gifts for dad.


  • Romantic Valentine's Day Gifts
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Still thinking about what to get on Valentine's Day? Valentine's Day celebrates romance. Here is a list of some romantic Valentine's Day gift ideas.


  • Precautions With Pets During Pregnancy
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] If you have pets in the family, it is natural that you will have concerns regarding them during your spouse's pregnancy. Fortunately, you need not rush to offer your pet for adoption. Discuss with your vet any risks that your pet may pose for the baby and take adequate steps to eliminate them before bringing the baby home.


  • Importance of Writing a Birth Plan
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] While this might seem like something for your wife to do, it's important that you, as a supporting cast member, be very involved in making the decisions now on how labor and delivery will unfold. Some decisions must be your wife's alone, like whether to have an epidural or allow for an episiotomy, and in those cases, your role is to be supportive of her decision. But there are other decisions that may even fall uniquely to you as well.


  • Everything You Need to Know About Child Support
    [Relationships:Post-Divorce] Child support refers to the obligations, following divorce, of a noncustodial parent towards the upkeep of the child. Find out everything you need to know about child support during divorce.


  • Babies Respond to Angry and Happy Faces
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] A baby's social skills start to develop long before she can talk. So do her emotions. Babies quickly come to know emotions and to show them.


  • Holiday Tips For Divorced Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] The Christmas and New Year season is almost upon us and many divorced dads are wondering how best keep to their kids happy without them feeling unhappily dragged from one parent to the other. When the parents maintain a friendly, or at least professional, relationship it is easier to decide a good course of action mutually but when the opposite is true, everyone suffers, especially the children.


  • Parenting Advice For Fathers Only
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Its main parenting advice to new dads is to be sensitive to their partner's needs and help out with meals, laundry and other kids. So, you've read all the baby books and been to a couple of classes, but are you really prepared for the first few months of your new baby's life?


  • Your Child's First Report Card
    [Kids-and-Teens] When a child starts elementary school, parents may feel anxious and excited about how their child is doing in school and how to support his learning. Take time for ongoing discussions with both your child and his teacher about what is going on in class.


  • Help Your Toddler Overcome Childhood Fears
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Fears are especially palpable to children in the dark and this may cause a lot of trouble at bedtime. Here are a few suggestions to help your kids cope.


  • How to Speak With Signs to Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Most parents know it when their babies are trying to communicate with them. Even simple gestures and gurgles can be quite expressive and often the message is strong and clear. Tips for teaching your baby sign language.


  • How Can You Discipline Your Child Gently?
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] As children grow and explore newer activities, it becomes necessary to exercise at least some level of authority over them. Here are some tips to help you discipline your toddler in a positive way without being harsh or cruel.


  • Find Ways to Pay For Medical Expenses During Pregnancy
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Pregnancy is an exciting time, but it can also be quite stressful. The extra expenses of prenatal care and preparing for the new baby are overwhelming for many women. These organizations can help your partner and your baby get medical care.


  • Guiding Your 6 Month Old Active Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] At the age of six months, your baby is more active than in past months. Because she gets around more, it's a good idea to make your home safe for your baby. Put all cleaning supplies, medicines, poisons and sharp objects where your baby can't get to them.


  • Last Minute Holiday Gifts For Christmas
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Oh no. It's happened again. The holidays are here, and you still haven't picked out that perfect gift for your wife, your kids, or your friends at work.


  • Kids' Playdate Rules For Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] As your child hits four or five, playdates become more common. Many people treat a playdate casually with no set rules and just a loose idea of pickup and drop-off times. But, if you want your playdates to be in demand, consider this list of tips to make this a playdate to be remembered for all the right reasons.


  • Holiday Custom Gift Ideas For Christmas
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] With the holiday season just around the corner, you start racking your brains to think of the right gifts to buy for your family and friends. Try custom holiday gifts this year.


  • Avoid Making Mealtime a Battleground
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Battles over food often occur when parents are too concerned about what, how much and when their children eat. Your baby is testing his independence. Avoid making mealtime a battleground.


  • Playground Safety Tips
    [Kids-and-Teens] Your child is at an age where his energy levels are at an all time high. He revels in his independence, given the slightest opportunity, will run, climb, and jump. Read more about how you can ensure playground safety.


  • Holiday Travel With Toddlers
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Traveling can be a great idea and a first step towards introducing your children to the world outside. It can also be the beginning for your toddlers' formative memories.


  • Guarding Your Baby Against Accidents
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] In the first year of life, your child will show some astonishing development as he/she transforms from a helpless, totally dependent baby into a curious and animated bundle of energy. As your infant grows, you as the parent will have your hands full ensuring that he/she stays out of harm's way. Left unattended, it is easy for an infant to hurt himself/herself, even within the safe confines of your house.


  • Top Three Advantages of Working From Home
    [Home-Based-Business] Most modern day dads and especially new dads would love to spend time with their kids. However, the work schedule usually prevents dads from balancing life and work.


  • How to Choose Your Work-From-Home Job
    [Home-Based-Business] Most people wishing to work-from-home or telecommute start with a state of confusion. There are so many work-from-home scams that most newbies end up burning their fingers at their initial attempt to set up home businesses.


  • Kids, Credit and Credit Ratings
    [Finance:Credit] You probably have never given much thought to your young child's credit history and rating. What can dads do to protect their kids on credit ratings?


  • Games For Skill Building at Ten Months
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Children learn skills as they grow. These skills happen by certain ages. A child learns skills at her own pace. Have fun helping your baby develop these skills.


  • Ideas to Deal With Christmas Stress
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Christmas is synonymous with gift-giving, celebration and fun activities. No matter how much you love Christmas, stress and anxiety are the other side of this season of cheer.


  • Safety Corner For Five Month Old Babies
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Dad, it's never too early for you to get involved with your baby. You have an important role to play in your baby's life. He wants to play with you and learn from you. Keep him safe as he grows and learns.


  • Buy a Safe Playpen For Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] As your baby grows, you will need to invest in a good playpen or play yard. This is an important piece of baby equipment that ensures safety, while allowing your baby plenty of room to move around inside.


  • Lifestyle Changes to Protect New Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Soon after a baby is born, every new dad experiences it - a sharp jolt of reality that summons him to newer responsibilities and expectations that he'll have to fulfill in the coming years. The changes a baby brings into your life are almost always surprising.


  • Ideal Safe Toys For Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Buy toys that are safe for your kids. There are innumerable ways for them to get hurt when they are away from your watchful eyes. It is always better to consider your options before you purchase any toy.


  • Coping With Thanksgiving Travel Stress
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Thanksgiving - a time for tributes, turkey, and, well... travel. Thanksgiving is America's busiest weekend for travel. It is, after all, a time of happy family reunions when people journey distances-long and short-to be with family and friends.


  • Five Ways to Make a Baby Smile
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Much has been made of the importance of a baby's smile, and cross-cultural studies show that all human babies smile at about the same age, 3-5 months. As a father, this is one of the best ways to connect, because it's gratifying to see them smile, and they will pay rapt attention, and start looking forward to your stimulating company.


  • Twenty Tips For Cutting Costs This Christmas
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Stumped by the vast variety of holiday do's and don'ts? Here are the most important tips to keep in mind while planning your holiday celebrations.


  • Top Tips For Cheap Holiday Gifts This Year
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Buying holiday gifts need not cause you financial stress and guilty feelings of not being able to give your loved ones the gifts they deserve. Here are some tips for more careful spending through the holidays.


  • Top Places in America to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] There's nothing like seeing these things for the first time, but a very close second best is seeing them with a child. Here is our list of places you should plan to see with your child before they grow up.


  • When to Worry About Dehydration in Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Dehydration refers to a condition when the amount of fluid in a person's body is less than the ideal requirement. Babies and infants are commonly susceptible to dehydration. Dehydration in babies occurs mainly when they take in less fluid than they lose, typically through vomiting, diarrhea, fever, or perspiration. While dehydration is often mild and easily reversible, sometimes it can also be serious and potentially life threatening.


  • Dad's Guide to Getting Your Baby to Sleep
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] For some parents, getting their children to sleep is no problem at all. For others, it invariably involves a major struggle. Here are some easy tips on putting your kids to bed.


  • Dad's Participation in the Pregnancy
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] While they may not carry the baby in their wombs, most dads are keen to be as involved as possible with the new addition to the family. One way they can do this is to accompany their partners during their medical checkups. These are some of the benefits you gain by accompanying your spouse to the obstetrician:


  • What is the History of Halloween?
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Halloween is celebrated on the evening of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, parties, carving Jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies.


  • Dads, Do You Know What an Apgar Score Is?
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] The Apgar test is a quick way for doctors to figure out if the baby is healthy or needs extra medical care. Apgar tests are usually done twice: one minute after birth and again five minutes after birth. Read more about Apgar Score.


  • Losing Weight After the Pregnancy
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Pregnancy tips and advice for expectant dads, new dads, single dads and stay at home dads. Source of experience, recommendations, inspiration and advice for dads-delivered from the male perspective.


  • How to Cut Costs With Halloween Costumes
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] There's no reason to overspend on Halloween costumes if you plan ahead. Here are tips for saving money at Halloween.


  • Getting Kids to Eat Healthy
    [Kids-and-Teens] The right diet ensures a healthy and bright future for children. Proper food and nutrients form the building blocks for developing strong teeth, bones, muscles and healthy tissues in this age group.


  • Divorced Dads - Dealing With Broken Home
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Divorced dads have a lot to prove since they will likely take at least half the blame for the break up of the family. It's the only way to get back in control of your life, take responsibility and start fixing that broken heart, that broken home.


  • Make Your Own Halloween Masks
    [Home-and-Family:Crafts-Supplies] With Halloween right around the corner, specialty stores are stocking their shelves with costumes and masks for adults and children. Here is an easy method for creating Halloween masks for your little trick-or-treater.


  • Praising Your Toddlers
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Praise is a contentious value of our times. Some are sure that children will be spoiled by praise. The following suggestions are likely to help you positively discipline your toddler and achieve the best practical results.


  • Celebrating Thanksgiving With Your Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Thanksgiving is an American tradition that truly celebrates family - a time in the year when relatives and friends get together and exchange notes on what's gone by. As a dad you can help your kids by explaining the meaning of Thanksgiving.


  • Inexpensive Halloween Costumes For You and Your Child
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Halloween's just around the corner. It's that time of year again when ghosts and goblins roam the streets. Here are some ideas for Halloween costumes that are easy to execute.


  • Stay-At-Home Dads Face a Challenge
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] According to 2006 data from US Census Bureau, there were 143,000 stay-at-home dads on Father's Day two years ago, not including single parents, compared to 5.6 million stay-at-home moms. That number has grown slightly in the last few years, the Associated Press reports, but then so has the number of moms.


  • Do-It-Yourself Halloween Decorations
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Halloween's just around the corner. You can turn any home into a haunted house for Halloween by adding the right Halloween decorations.


  • Custom Gift Baskets For Dad
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] You need to get dad a present, but you're not sure where to start. Here are simple steps for creating a custom gift basket for your dad.


  • 5 Rules For Divorced Dads
    [Relationships:Post-Divorce] Divorced dads have a lot to prove since they will likely take at least half the blame for the break up of the family. Divorced dads should follow all the tips for regular dads, but should be especially attentive to these.


  • Parent's Participation in Children's Education
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] No matter what your parenting style, the key to a successful academic experience is to partner with your children in their education. Tips for parents how to participate in children's education.


  • Step Fathers Are Better Parents - Study and Research
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] The research negates the widely held belief that biological fathers are better suited to the role of parenting their own children. Read article on study finds stepfathers are better parents.


  • Wedding Advice For the Father of the Bride
    [Relationships:Wedding] Seeing their child get married can be a proud and happy day for a father, but it can also be stressful, particularly when it is their daughter's wedding. There is the issue of seeing daddy's little girl all grown up and beginning to make a family of her own and then there are all the father of the bride duties - walking her down the aisle, making a speech and getting the check book out to pay for it all at the end.


  • Traumatic Child Birth
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] The process of becoming a mother involves a certain amount of psychological strain for a pregnant woman. During pregnancy, it is important for the to-be mother's family members and close ones to support her as required.


  • Stay-at-Home Fathers Could Offer Moms Tips
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] After Stay at Home Dads, it is the turn for a new trend: Moms who go to work and are married to stay at home dads. Stay-at-home dads have a thing or two to teach moms about raising kids.


  • Pregnancy Second Trimester's Tests and Procedures
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] During the second trimester, you and your spouse should continue to see your doctor for prenatal care. Pregnant woman will also be offered screening tests to look for genetic birth defects. Some of the diagnostic and screening tests the doctor might suggest in the second trimester include here.


  • Father-Daughter Wedding Dance Songs
    [Relationships:Wedding] If you have a wedding coming up for your daughter, you probably have very mixed emotions. Perhaps "mixed" isn't even the right word.


  • Will Crooked Teeth in Your Baby Be a Permanent Problem?
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Adequate baby teeth care and maintenance is necessary to pave the way for permanent teeth. Teeth also affect speech, eating habits, and appearance. Here are some important facts related to crooked baby teeth that you should keep in mind.


  • How to Choose the Right Humidifier For Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] For most parents it can be an enjoyable experience to set up a baby nursery. A baby nursery will provide a safe corner for your baby to romp and play.


  • Conceiving a Baby - Things Future Dads Should Avoid
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Men don't usually scour pre-pregnancy books, stocking up on all the right vitamins and minerals, and planning against the hidden dangers that could harm their baby-to-be. Future dads, who are trying to conceive, would do well to avoid the following things.


  • Feeding Your Two Month Old Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Breastfeeding is healthy for mom and baby. Tips and advantages of feeding your 2 month old baby.


  • Understand Your Toddler's Growth
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Toddler-hood is an important phase in the development of your baby. It is at this time that most children will perfect their walking and start speaking and responding in an interactive manner.


  • Do's and Don'ts For Discipline Your Toddler
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] The transition from baby to toddler is also the stage when your child will learn to accept and give in to your authority, at least in certain matters. The process will be gradual and involve a certain amount of stress for both of you. Your child will rebel and will test your will against his on at least some occasions; but tact and resolve in handling such situations should get you through.


  • Maintaining Relationships With Teenagers After Divorce
    [Relationships:Post-Divorce] No matter how much visitation time a non-custodial dad may be awarded, it will not seem enough. You are their dad and will always remain so. Fulfill that role by spending time doing things that dads generally do.


  • Teach Your Kids About Election Day
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] As this interminable 2008 election whimpers on into the fall, our family has at least used it to teach a few civics lessons to our two young children. The success of the first viable female and African-American candidates, of course, has been much bally-hooed for their significance. As adults, we appreciate what paradigm shifting events mean within the context of history.


  • Holidays on Cruise Ships With Kids
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Cruising] Holidays on cruise ships with kids are not miserable. Some important things to take care about when planning a cruise adventure.


  • Buying Baby Clothes on a Budget
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] However, shopping for children's clothes requires careful thought. Here are some tips on getting good deals on baby clothes.


  • Separation Anxiety in Babies
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Your baby wants to be with you. You are the person your baby knows and loves best. He knows when you are not with him. This creates a fear that you will not return. This distress is called "separation anxiety." It is an important part of growing up.


  • Unusual Baby Names
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Parents, increasingly, are thinking up unique names for their children. An exotic association apart, there is at least one constructive advantage to this. An unusual name helps to confer exclusivity, helping the owner to stand out and be recognized more easily.


  • Parents Without Partners
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] If you are a single parent, you need not be alone. Read this article to know how you can be part of an international movement that is dedicated to the interests of single parents and their children.


  • Top 6 Ways to Teach Your Kids About Money
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Money and kids, our attitudes towards money are, to a great extent, shaped by our parents. Here are six great ways to help kids grow up with a healthy attitude towards money.


  • Taking a Home Pregnancy Test
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] If you and your spouse are trying to conceive a baby, you may want to know if your wife is pregnant. The best and earliest method to that is to use a home pregnancy test.


  • Top 5 Signs of Pregnancy
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Pregnancy can be a puzzling time for the newly expectant dad. As your spouse experiences a hormonal rollercoaster, her body is likely to undergo some very surprising changes. Read this article to know basic signs of pregnancy.


  • Best 5 American Cities to Bring Up Your Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] For dads, raising well-behaved kids is one of the most exasperating of parenting problems. Find list of the five best cities to raise your kids in America.


  • Interactive Pregnancy Calendar
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] The presence of early pregnancy symptoms is an indication that your spouse needs to undergo a pregnancy test. If positive, it means your spouse is on her way to give birth to your baby. However, pregnancy-divided into three trimesters-remains a mysterious period for most women.


  • What to Eat While Pregnant
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Make sure pregnant woman eats healthy meals and snacks and take a multivitamin every day. If expectant dads and moms are both unsure about eating healthy during pregnancy, talk to your doctor. Here is some basic information available what to eat while pregnant.


  • Information on Spider Veins Or Varicose Veins
    [Health-and-Fitness] Varicose veins are commonly found on the backs of the calves or on the inside of the leg Spider veins are similar to varicose veins, but they are smaller. Read article to know more about spider veins and varicose veins symptoms and treatments.


  • Different Parenting Skills May Be a Thing of the Past
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Advice for new dads on what are good positive parenting skills. Many of these parenting skills come naturally to new dads if you are able to grow with the role of being a dad.


  • Top 4 Tips on Setting Up a Baby Room
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Your child's room is special to him. As a dad, you can decorate your kid's room based on a theme of his interest, such as a 'cowboy' or 'jungle'. Read more about using themes to decorate your kid's room.


  • Dad Site - Because Dads Don't Always Think Like Moms
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Dads are as important as moms in the lives of their children. Dads' parenting style is quite different from moms. Find out resources especially for dads as dads don't always think like moms.


  • Top Ten Places to Celebrate Independence Day - 4th of July
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] It's that time of the year again when every family in North America sets out to celebrate the biggest birthday party of the year-Independence Day. There are monuments to travel to, afternoon parades to join in, and beach parties to go to. We hope you and your family can take the best of the picks.


  • Independent International Adoption - Four Things to Know
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] International adoption remains an increasingly popular alternative for hopeful parents despite its complexity. When considering international adoption you can either choose an agency-initiated path or independent adoption, where you handle the details yourselves. Here are four facts to keep in mind when considering if independent international adoption is right for you and your family.


  • Best Father's Day Quotes - Celebrating Fatherhood
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] This Father's Day, celebrate fatherhood with meaningful quotes that will change the way you think of your dad. Alexander Pope: We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.


  • Ovulation Calculator - Determines Your Spouse's Fertility
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] If you and your spouse are planning to have a baby, an ovulation calculator is an excellent tool to help you increase your chances of a successful conception. What is an ovulation calculator? An ovulation calculator is simply a system to help you calculate the days during which your spouse is most likely to be ready for conception.


  • Famous Fathers Day Poems
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Here are a few noted Fathers Day poems. Some are a bit corny; some are more literary. It's up to you to write your own card, or decide what fits your dad best.


  • Best Bets in the Bookstore and Beyond For Single Dads
    [Book-Reviews:Mens] Single parenting is not easy. Tips for divorced dads on parenting and child care. Find resources on fathering for single dads and divorced dads.


  • 5 Common Gay Dad Myths
    [Relationships:Gay-Lesbian] Owning up to one's homosexuality always requires courage. However, it is even more difficult for gay dads who may be concerned about the effect of their 'declaration' on their children.


  • Compilation Of Great Parenting Advice
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Lock your bedroom door. Some people put a cowbell on their kids' door. Just don't count on hearing a knock before you hear the worst words, "daddy, what are you doing to mommy.


  • Fathers Day Gifts Sure To Please Your Dad
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Dads spend their lives thinking about their families. Here are some of must have Father's day gifts to give to your dad on Fathers Day.


  • Ten Tips For Dads Traveling With Kids
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] Traveling can be very stressful, and traveling with kids doubly so, for reasons that are completely different than for traveling with smaller children. Here are ten ideas to help the trip go smoother this time.


  • Travel With Kids - Five Stuff-Free Games For Long Car Trips
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Budget-Travel] Long travel gives dads the added concern of keeping kids from getting bored on the journey. There are many more ways to do this than the good old portable DVD player.


  • Single Parenting - Four Role Models To Avoid
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Single parenting is not easy. Find tips for single parents to avoid four role models in single parenting. Read articles on single parenting and effects of single parenting.


  • Ten Most Surprising Questions For A New Father
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] New father's feelings during the first few weeks after delivery. Here are some of the emotions many new fathers feel.


  • Five Parenting Skills Necessary For New Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Whether you call it a parenting skill or not, love and affection is the most important thing for your new baby. Many of these parenting skills come naturally to new dads if you're able to grow with the role of being a dad.


  • Family Planning - What Dads And Moms Need To Know
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] If you are about to start a family with your spouse, you will often hear about "family planning". But what really does it mean? Family planning is often understood as prevention of pregnancy.


  • Is Morning Sickness a Good Thing?
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Sure your wife is doubled over and sick as a dog and it's hard to watch her suffer. But you often hear that morning sickness is actually a sign that the baby is doing well. Maybe it's just a way to make mom feel that all the agony serves some real purpose in the grand plan but laymen theories include the baby "telling" mom what not to eat and mom's reaction to changing hormones.


  • Six Worst Baby Bedding Mistakes Parents Make
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Your baby spends the major part of the day in bed, sleeping. Therefore, it is important that the baby bedding you provide your child is comfortable, as well as easy to maintain. These are some commonly available options of baby bedding.


  • 8 Top Early Pregnancy Symptoms
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] If you and your spouse have been trying for a baby, you may wonder about the earliest signals that will announce a pregnancy. While some women experience early symptoms that indicate pregnancy, others suspect it only when they realize that they have missed their periods.


  • Five Places to Order a Mother's Day Gift Basket
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Mother's Day celebrates that glorious ideal of love and sacrifice called motherhood. But someone is going to have to explain the significance of this day to the kids, and enroll their efforts into making this a day for mom to remember.


  • Top 4 Myths About Baby Acne
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Baby acne is a term used for the acne that affects babies three to four weeks after birth. Baby acne is not the same as infantile acne, which affects older infants over three months old. Find out the myths about baby acne.


  • How 50 Year Old Dads Think Different - Fatherhood Prospect
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Older dads are better prepared to take on the role of a dad. Read about the benefits of being an older dad.


  • Naming Children After Presidents and Celebrities
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Naming a child can be tricky. While selecting names for their children, many parents simply pick names, they like. However, being aware of such trends may help parents understand the reasons for their choice better.


  • Adopting an Older Child
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Read about how to adopt an older child. Adoption is increasingly becoming an option for many parents.


  • The Meaning of Mother's Day
    [Home-and-Family:Motherhood] Whoever said Mother's Day was important only for the mom did not really get the point here. True, Mother's Day celebrates that glorious ideal of love and sacrifice called motherhood. However, someone is going to have to explain the significance of this day to the kids, and enroll their efforts into making this a day for mom to remember.


  • Guard Your Child Against the Risk of Teenage Pregnancy
    [Kids-and-Teens] Comprehensive resources for parents on teenage pregnancy and problems. Guard your child against the effect of teenage pregnancy. Find some fact about teenage pregnancy statistics and rates in US.


  • Understanding the Different Stages of Pregnancy
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Become a partner with your doctor to manage your spouse's pregnancy care. During the early months of pregnancy, regular doctor visits or prenatal care are especially important.


  • Pregnancy Complications - Need For Immediate Attention
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] When your spouse is pregnant you should not hesitate to call your doctor or midwife if something is bothering or worrying either of you. Sometimes physical changes can be signs of a problem.


  • Protect Your Baby's Future Teeth
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] As a parent, you want to make your child understand the importance of dental hygiene. However, you need not wait until your child is old enough to brush and floss. Ideally, you could begin a regime for baby dental care even before your baby cuts the first tooth.


  • Ectopic Pregnancy - Signs and Symptoms
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Ectopic pregnancy happens in any woman with lower abdominal pain or unusual bleeding who is or might be sexually active and whose pregnancy test is positive. Read the article about how ectopic pregnancy can be diagnosed or treated.


  • How to Make The Best of Your Children's Visitation Time
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] Because these times are so special, some divorced families find themselves thrown together again every holiday, if only because it's more practical than ferrying the kids all over town. Often, it's one big happy family with new spouses and children.


  • Experiences of a New Dad - Some Practical Advice
    [Home-and-Family:Fatherhood] You have a new baby, and you are a proud parent. Do you sometimes feel excited but also a little nervous about taking care of your new baby? Then you are like most parents.


  • Mother's Day - Great Celebration Ideas
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Mother's Day is considered more of a private ritual between the missus and the kids by most dads: it slips by and they barely notice it. Moms deserve better, and there are things that only a dad can do to make Mother's Day memorable for the whole family. One of those things is to help the kids make and/or purchase a great gift for mom.


  • Guide for Dads - Reading Aloud to Babies, Part 1
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Anthony DeCasper shows that babies respond to being read to even before they are born! For example, the researchers found that after birth, babies' sucking patterns and heart beat changed when they heard passages that their mothers had read to them in the final trimester of the pregnancies.


  • Toddlers and Anemia
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Anemia is a common blood disorder caused by a deficiency of red blood cells (RBCs) and is characterized by lack of vitality. It is estimated that around 7 percent of children in the United States experience anemia once by the age of 18 years. The most common cause of anemia in toddlers is iron deficiency.


  • Toddlers and Pink Eye
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Conjunctivitis, commonly referred to as Pink Eye, is an infection to your baby's eye. Her/his eyes are infected. Eye drops are necessary for eyes to get better.


  • How to Hire a Babysitter
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] All parents, at some point or the other, will need to hire the services of a babysitter. However, for many parents, this is easier said than done.


  • Buy Your Baby's First Shoes
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Making your toddler, who is just learning to walk, wear shoes or any protective gear is no child's play! Refusal to wear shoes has several possible reasons and is characterized by the following: Conflict of Interests: Parents force their toddlers to wear shoes. Children at this age view this as unnecessary, and try to assert their own identity, by simply throwing the shoes away.


  • Selecting the Right Air Cleaner for Your Baby's Nursery
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] For most parents it can be an enjoyable experience to set up a baby nursery. A baby nursery will provide a safe corner for your baby to romp and play.


  • Useful Resource for Gay Dads
    [Relationships:Gay-Lesbian] While gay dads have always been around, the past couple of decades have seen them emerging from the closet. Owning up to one's homosexuality always requires courage. However, it is even more difficult for gay dads who may be concerned about the effect of their 'declaration' on their children.


  • Organize a Perfect Valentine's Day for Your Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Since Valentine's Day is a festival of love, it is a wonderful opportunity for dads to reinforce messages of love and security. While not everyone will have time to make a big production of Valentine's Day, here are a few ideas that will make the day stand out for you and your kids. At the very least, don't forget the flowers for your wife.


  • Top Five Tips for Dads on Balancing Life and Work
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Having a new baby often changes everyone's perspective on their lives and careers. Some dads, and even some moms, bury themselves deeper into their jobs because they cannot or will not connect with domestic life, or need a break from the crying and clinging.


  • Dads' New Year Resolutions
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Being a great dad is an every day climb up the mountain, or a thousand-task test of parenting skills: patience, generosity, creativity, intelligence, wisdom. What works one day is a failure the next.


  • Tips on Putting Your Twins to Sleep
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Getting a baby to sleep often presents a major parenting concern. Babies don't naturally take to sleeping through the night and most dads and moms have to work at 'teaching' their infant to sleep by setting up a sleep schedule for them.


  • Ten Tips For Dads Celebrating Birthdays and Holidays After Divorce
    [Relationships:Divorce] Every divorced dad has to carry his own grief and try to begin a new life again in the world. Remember that you are still a father. Taking care of your children during this crisis is your first priority. It's the only way to break the inertia. It's the only way to get back in control of your life, take responsibility and start fixing that broken heart, that broken home.


  • Planning Major Travel With Kids
    [Travel-and-Leisure] We made a promise to our kids that when they reached their twelfth birthdays, my wife and I would take them any place in the world they wished to go. We called the program "Twelve and Travel." There were several pre-conditions to the travel.


  • Timing Sexual Intercourse for Conception
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Couples who intend to conceive a baby would do well to time their lovemaking. There is an optimum time for enjoying sexual intercourse that increases the chances of conception. However, to be able to do this it is important to know when your spouse is ovulating.


  • Potty Training Shopping List
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Potty training experts are everywhere. Whether family, friends, or books are providing you advice, realize there are different approaches that can be tried. An approach that works for one child may not work for another. Others can provide advice, but most likely, you know what approach will work best for your child.


  • Top Ways In Which Dads are Different
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] There is rigorous debate in our culture about gender roles, including the appropriate roles of the mother and father in raising children. We are all now aware that mothers can do much of what fathers used to do, and fathers can do a lot of what was historically "mother's work".


  • A Healthy Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] The right diet ensures a healthy and bright future for toddlers. Proper food and nutrients form the building blocks for developing strong teeth, bones, muscles and healthy tissues in this age group.


  • Your Baby Has "People Skills"
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Try to interpret these gestures to understand what your baby is telling you. You may want to research sign language training for you and your baby.


  • Finding Child Care for Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Dads tips on choosing day care for your young babies. Sometimes you must find child care even for young babies. This happens most often when the parents work outside the home. You may have many choices when it comes to choosing child care for your baby. You may have a neighbor or relative who can take care of him. Alternatively, you may decide to use a day-care center or family home.


  • Talking to Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Do you think that your baby is too young for you to enjoy interacting with him? Think again. There is a lot you can do that will be fun for both of you. Additionally, it will also have a beneficial effect on your baby's development.


  • Feeding Your One Month Old Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Nursing is good for your toddler. If you are breastfeeding, continue as long as you and your toddler enjoy it. Nursing has many benefits. Don't limit feeding times. Babies need different amounts of food at different times of the day, just as grown people do.


  • How to Shop For Safe Toys This Holiday Season 2007
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Still thinking about what to get Dad for the holidays? Let us guide you with our top recommendations of shopping and gift suggestions for dads.


  • Bonding With Your Kids
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Dads' traditional role as breadwinners means that they spend relatively less time with their kids than the moms. Breadwinner dads often need to be creative regarding things to do with their kids. Here are some tips to help dads bond with their kids.


  • Babysitter Basics For Parents
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Hiring a babysitter often becomes essential at times, especially if you have to attend to an important task outside the house. Finding the right person to take care of your baby can be difficult and stressful.


  • Baby Gift Ideas
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Baby gifts store offers unique gifts for babies up to 1 year. Find the best gifts for newborn baby and toddlers.


  • Baby Clothes Buying Guide for Dads
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] It takes every inch of the doting dad's willpower not to over-shop for his kid's clothes. Though your baby doesn't care what you dress him in as long as it feels comfortable, that needn't stop you from indulging your fancy.


  • Baby Bedding - A Buyer's Guide
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Babies will sleep most of the time during their first few months. At this time, they require all the sleep they can get, so parents need to resist the temptation to wake them up and fondle or hug them.


  • Child Development Stages
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] It's important to keep a record of your baby's growth. Your baby's length and weight will be measured when he visits the doctor or clinic. You can make your own notebook to write down your baby's health record.


  • Ten Parenting Tips For New Twins
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] It is important that dads have the positive feelings to parenting. Dad should share the load of bringing up kids with mom in a spirit of partnership.


  • PCOS - How is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Treated?
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Because there is no cure for PCOS, it needs to be managed to prevent problems. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, treatment is based on the symptoms each patient is having and whether she wants to conceive or needs contraception.


  • After the Baby is Born
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] You will need to talk to your doctor about things your spouse will experience as her body starts to recover from the pregnancy. She will have spotting or bleeding, like a menstrual period off and on for up to six weeks.


  • Bringing on Labor and Natural Induction
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Preconception information on family planning for getting pregnant, fertility issue, sexual position to have baby. Its just over the predicted due date but your little prince or princess has not arrived yet. If your baby has not arrived yet, you can count on your wife to be quite frustrated, which, given her size and difficulty moving around, you can totally understand.


  • Helping Children Learn About Reading
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parenting tips for expectant and new dads. Parents' guide on helping your child to read. Why read a book to an infant who does not yet know the meaning of a word-or of words at all? Why sing to a toddler who cannot understand your song?


  • Golf Clubs for Kids
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Plan summer activities for kids like making a toy together, photo books, juggling balls, skiing, camping with kids.


  • Help Your Sick Toddler
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Pregnancy Tips and Advice for Expectant Dads. Also offers Parenting Information for New Dads, Single Dads, Stay at Home Dads.


  • Infantile Acne
    [Health-and-Fitness:Acne] As a dad, you need to worry about your kid's sensitive skin, especially if it is sunny where you live. Applying sunscreen is a solution, but far easier said than done when you are dealing with a restless toddler.


  • Ten Tips on Traveling with Babies
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Parenting tips and advice for expectant dads, new dads, single dads and stay at home dads. Source of experience, recommendations, inspiration and advice for dads - delivered from the male perspective.


  • Toilet Learning For Toddlers
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Toilet training tips and information for toddlers. Easy steps to potty training for kids. Useful information for parenting about child toilet learning.


  • Start Breastfeeding to Your Baby
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Parenting tips and advice for expectant dads, new dads, single dads and stay at home dads. Source of experience, recommendations, inspiration and advice for dads-delivered from the male perspective.


  • Decide About Extended Breastfeeding
    [Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Parenting tips and advice for expectant dads, new dads, single dads and stay at home dads. Source of experience, recommendations, inspiration and advice for dads - delivered from the male perspective


  • Tips on Bottle Feeding
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Parenting tips and advice for expectant dads, new dads, single dads and stay at home dads. Source of experience, recommendations, inspiration and advice for dads - delivered from the male perspective.


  • Healthy Diet for Toddlers
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Parenting tips and advice for expectant dads, new dads, single dads and stay at home dads. Source of experience, recommendations, inspiration and advice for dads-delivered from the male perspective.


  • 10 Things for Dads to Consider when Choosing a Baby Stroller
    [Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Parenting tips and advice for expectant dads, new dads, single dads and stay at home dads. Source of experience, recommendations, inspiration and advice for dads - delivered from the male perspective


  • Eight Tips For Dads Working From Home
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parenting tips and advice for expectant dads, new dads, single dads and stay at home dads. Source of experience, recommendations, inspiration and advice for dads-delivered from the male perspective.


  • Wonderful Webkinz - Toys for Kids
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] Toys amuse and entertain children tremendously, adding to the fun of learning new things. The trick to buying the right toy is finding out which kind interests your child for more than a few minutes. But it's also important that the toy you buy is safe, durable, appealing, and suited to your child's physical, mental, and social development.


  • Tribute to Dads on Father's Day
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Father's Day is not just about burnt toast, breakfast in bed or that brand new tie. It's a day for children to express their love and gratitude for the unsung hero in their lives.

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