In the ongoing "Mommy Wars of 2013", there is still a backlash against mothers who hire individuals (mostly women) to help with childcare. Is this a class issue or just another cafeteria fight?
From waitress to CEO, the issue of childcare is messy, costly and crucial. Elder care is just as critical and worrisome
It was a Saturday night. The pizza had been delivered, the kids were vegged out on the couch, and my husband, Brett, and I were ready to hit the ground running. Now all we needed was the babysitter.
I know many mothers and caring nannies who have witnessed inappropriate behavior by other nannies they know on the playground, at a playdate, in stores or at school, but choose to keep their mouths shut due to fear or anxiety about how their comments might be received.
The babysitter tells me that Ida was missing me a lot. I awkwardly fork over a handful of cash. I've been in charge of a kid who just wanted to be with her parents, too. I've also been the kid who wanted to be with her parents. Now I'm the mother who was missed. It's hard.
My first instinct was to tell her that she's too young. That they're moving too fast. I wanted to tell her to slow down.
A Massachusetts man has been indicted on "100 counts of charges related to the rape and sexual abuse of more than a dozen young children in their own ...
I spent all that time getting ready for birth / And I think of my good friend, who said, / "Remember Laurie, this is just the curtain rising, / The real show is what lies ahead."
"Where's the daddy spider?" asked my daughter, Helena. "He's across town in his own web. The baby spiders visit him on weekends."
LOS ANGELES -- Officially, Louisa Araneta* is a live-in caretaker for an elderly woman who needs help eating, bathing and getting dressed. Unofficiall...
OAKDALE, Minn. -- A 6-year-old girl came home from school and discovered her parents and live-in baby sitter dead in what police said was a double mur...
Police in Connecticut have arrested a woman for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy she was hired to babysit. Loni Boucha...
An 11-year-old girl helping her mother baby-sit has been charged with murdering a 2-year-old, who suffered blunt-force trauma to the head, torso and b...
Different studies point to the same result: for every hour of TV watched, kids run an increased risk of developing ADD, obesity or falling behind in class. Screen time is especially affects young children.
EVANS, Colo. — A Colorado man accused in a weekend break-in was nabbed when police say he ran into some unexpected guests – his own kids. ...
We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.
WATERTOWN, Mass. — When Jenny Iverson and her husband left Utah last year, they didn't just lose a tight-knit community of relatives. They lost ...
I can't be alone in my yearning, can I? There have to be others who crave a sweet, old Paw Paw, too, and are wondering how to land one, for themselves or for their kids.
We need government-subsidized daycare. We're one of the only industrialized nations in the world that doesn't meet this most basic need for its working families.
