Delta Dental of Arizona offers these suggestions for items that will make kids smile while encouraging regular brushing and flossing.

Some parents may not realize that the high-tech toys that top the list for some kids can come with built-in risks to safety.

When it comes to the health of our children, we tend to take plenty of things for granted. Consider the bar of soap. According...

A couple of years ago, Talinda Bennington took her Boston Terrier, Bruiser, to visit patients at Cardon Children’s Medical Center as part of the pet...

If your child swallowed a small, single-cell battery, how would you know? You might think that a small child would show signs of choking if...

In his first few weeks of life, Joey Whitfield of Mesa was an easygoing, happy, typical baby. But at around 8 weeks, his mother,...

If my dogs Scout and Bubba didn’t hop on the chair and quiver in keen anticipation when visitors pulled into the driveway, I’d know...

Though parents may say they understand that car seats are intended to keep their children safe -- and despite best intentions -- four out...

Nancie Schauder's name first appeared on our staff roster 20 years ago, in October 1991. She was, as I later wrote, "one of those...

Trying to keep up with immunization schedules can overwhelm even the most diligent, organized parents. Relocation, or a change in employment, physician or insurance...

Try this. Roll up a piece of paper. Stuff it with cotton balls. Wrap the roll in tightly wound rubber bands to hold the...

I tried to prime Eli that it might be scary, hoping that maybe he’d opt out before I had to plink down 7 bucks and swelter alfresco in a long line of muggles outside the theatre

Researchers found that a child’s risk for injury was fifty percent lower when riding with the grandparents than with parents.

I want to be the June Cleaver of sitcom fame. But I’m not. I’m more a child-laden version of Mary Richards from the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Imagine me, in the middle of a snowy Minnesota roadway, tossing my infamous beret into the air and trying to catch it victoriously while also reigning in two impish little creatures who think it’s just fun to dart into the street between racing taxi cabs.

My mom, on the other hand awoke startled, bolting upright like an overdone pop-tart shooting out of a burning toaster. She’d accost you with a hysterical “What’s wrong?” or a frantic “Who died?” It was just...stressful to wake my mom.

Want to help your children avoid our country's epidemic of childhood obesity? Pack lunchboxes for school instead of buying school lunches. That's one conclusion from...