Title: "If I Get A Boyfriend" Author: Sophie Age: 7 Inspiration: Mom and dad tell HuffPost that Sophie "wrote this after watching a recent ep...

As the parent of a child with autism, I discovered a peculiar thing: Many things that cause stress, or at least some annoyance, to other parents are causes for joy or at least satisfaction for me.

With Halloween just a few weeks away, here are a few apps for you to load on your smartphone to get your family in the Halloween spirit!

"I can't afford it" means nothing to a 4-year-old. My son Rhett's solution was swift and simple: "Oh Mommy, don't use real money. Use that magic piece of plastic."

The one-child household is the fastest growing family unit in the U.S., and now outnumbers those with two children. On my own street, four of the nine families with kids have a single child. So our daughter is unlikely to be the only "only" in her kindergarten class.

The authority who arrested Odessa Clay for tattooing her 11-year-old daughter questioned why the North Carolina mom wasn't charged with child abuse. ...

Erin Knowles loves taking photographs of her children -- she snaps dozens a day. But of the 25,000 she has, only ten include her with the rest of the ...

When we asked readers to join Allison's crusade, and send us photos of themselves "in the picture," you responded. Actually, you did more than just respond. You embraced, inhabited and claimed the cause as your own. 

"Stop, please," a tearful Hope Holcomb says in a TV news segment. "Try to be nice." Holcomb, a 10-year-old from East Sparta, Ohio, who has cerebral...

I looked around at other moms at the pre-prom party and realized that probably no other mother was thinking of her daughter in her very special dress the same way I was thinking of Ali.

Wouldn't it be better to encourage this conversation among women, seeing it as an airing of the normal doubts and preference so many of us have, rather than shutting each other down?

A New Jersey grammar school let a special needs student go hungry instead of contacting his parents over an unpaid bill, according to several reports....

There's a fine line between confidence and having a god complex. In the case of today's cute kid note, the difference is only a matter of one little v...

I cannot think of a better gift for the coming Jewish year than knowing that your child is a caring, helpful friend.

Things a sister might do for her brother and sister-in-law: host Thanksgiving at the last minute, get the mail when they're on vacation, maybe even co...

Last week, I sat down with my 11-year-old son to deliver that time-honored rite of passage -- for parents as well as kids -- our first "Birds and the Bees" talk. I was prepared for every possible question, except the one he asked.

When I originally wrote the post on Target's Facebook wall I had no idea the sort of attention it would receive, but once I realized it, I probably should have made it more of a priority to talk directly to the store. This morning, eight days after the wall post, I spoke to the store manager.

Rose Siggins needs a new skateboard -- and it isn't to master the latest trick. A married mother of two and part-time mechanic in Pueblo, Colo., Siggi...

Today, we bring you a Cute Kid Note written by one little boy who really likes to plan ahead. Title: "Don't Forget To..." Author: Xander Age...

I am better for having "met" this little girl and her mother. This story is uniquely theirs, yes, but it is also universal. It is the tale of too many Donnas and too many Sheilas.

Two-year-old Myla can't sleep well. And if a man comes too close to her, she says, "Bad man, bad man," her dad Kelly Davis told the Chicago Tribune. ...

If you think of everything in your environment as an opportunity to teach science to your child, you can create a wonder-filled summer of exploration.

Not everything that happens is fixable, but what can be changed by sheer will power is the way you react to them.

Nick Marlowe, a grieving husband from Lead Hill, Ark., got an unexpected boost from country star Jake Owen this month. Now Marlowe's tragic story is b...

"Smoked Pot, got caught. Don't I look cool? Not." That's what was written on the sandwich board-style sign that Brandon Mathison, 13, wore as he w...