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A 19-month-old boy is in a medically induced coma after being badly injured when a flash-bang grenade tossed by a policeman landed in his playpen during an early morning SWAT team raid in Habersham County, Georgia. “Cops busted in the ...

The CDC estimates that approximately 7.8 percent of Americans suffer from ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. There are different types of ADHD. The degree that it affects a child’s or adult’s life varies greatly dependent upon severity of symptoms as ...

The kids in my neighborhood are old enough to run in a pack, but young enough that they keep grown-ups on radar. They may head out on bikes and skateboards for a time, but return to circle any present adult ...

What if the government announced new educational standards intended to make the nation’s children smarter, but they ended up doing exactly the opposite? That’s exactly what critics of the Common Core State Standards initiative say is happening, and that’s the ...

Everywhere we turn today there is another electronic device popping up, and these are not just for adults anymore. There are computers, tablets, games, educational programs and applications all geared toward children. But this raises the question. How safe is ...

Farmer and author Joel Salatin believes America’s children and teens are losing the work ethic that made this country great, but he has a solution for it. Salatin says too many children grow up laying around or merely “playing” until ...

When I had to decide whether or not to vaccinate my children, I thought about a little boy that I once knew. Timothy was a two-year-old boy with Down syndrome whose vaccination went terribly wrong.  Following a checkup with several ...

A proposed state law in Missouri would make it a crime for parents or guardians not to tell school officials if they have guns in their home. Parents could also be prosecuted for gun crimes committed by their children under ...

Parents and their children scored a big victory in Colorado for privacy when the state ended its relationship with inBloom, which data mines the personal information of families. The highly controversial program was still in the pilot stages when a ...

A new Canadian study suggests common household insecticides such as bug sprays may be linked to behavior problems in children. According to the Scientific American, the study by researchers in Quebec is one of the first to examine potential human ...