Check Your Health- Parents as Teachers Home Visiting Program

April is Family Strengthening month and a time to raise awareness about ways our community can prevent child abuse and neglect. Child abuse and neglect is less likely to happen when families are ... Read More

The Parents as Teachers Program and School Success: A Replication and Extension

The goal in other home visiting programs, such as Levenstein's Parent–Child Home ... program on children's school readiness. Parents in the PAT program were found to read to their children ... Read More

Fort Worth parents allege toddler son neglected at school, call for better child care

In Reality Check stories, Star-Telegram journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read more. Story idea? RealityCheck@star-telegram.com. A Fort Worth couple is ... Read More

Isolation and injuries: Parents say school autism program plagued by problems

Six families said their children in Peoria Unified School District's autism program came home with mysterious ... describing what services a child's parents and school officials have decided ... Read More

Pilot program in Brooklyn offers parents stipend to buy books for kids to read at home

NEW YORK-- A new city education program is giving parents money to buy books at home for their kids. The pilot program was announced Thursday morning by Schools Chancellor David Banks and District ... Read More

What’s the best way for kids to inherit their parents’ home?

When the mother dies, the children will become owners of the house. However, I think that they will also inherit their parents ... home as your primary residence for two out of the last five years. Read More

When Adult Children Hear Their Parents Are Divorcing

Their divorce rate has doubled since 1990, and it is predicted to triple ... years after the start of your parents’ separation, you became the creators and producers of the podcast "The Kids ... Read More

Parents Don't Want Schools to Confiscate Kids' Phones

Only 13 percent of parents waited until a kid was age 14 or older. Among those whose kids had cell phones, only 18 percent estimated that their child spends ... teens for five years during which ... Read More

Where Are the Menéndez Brothers Now? A Look at Their Lives in Prison Over 30 Years After Parents' Murder

“I think looking back 34 years ... as children, which they cited as their reason for murdering José and Kitty in their Beverly Hills home. The Menéndez brothers murdered their parents, José ... Read More

How Parents Gaslight Their Children

What the above title suggests is that parents’ gaslighting ... and doubts vetoes the child’s limited but authentically lived experience. Given their mandatory dependency, children are ... Read More

Do parents have to play with their kids? Why a mom's TikTok about saying no stirred up debate — and what an expert thinks.

"I just said no to them, every single time they asked me to play with them, for years ... “Kids absolutely need opportunities to play, but parents shouldn't feel pressured to always be their ... Read More