LIBabies.com Web News Archive

Top Children's Health and Parenting Stories of 2007: Readers' Choice (WebMD) - A list of the 10 most viewed children's health and parenting stories on WebMD in 2007.

Local educator-moms post parenting tips online (The Beacon News) - Four Kaneland educators are the authors of a new cyberspace column offering guidance to help parents with their parenting skills.

Toy Tips & Parenting Hints Magazine: No Hot Toy This Year, Parents Forced to Think for Themselves (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - National toy expert Marianne Szymanski has always encouraged parents to make smart toy choices rather than purchase trendy "hot toys" for their children. Through her highly respected magazine Toy Tips and Parenting Hints Magazine and popular website toytips.com, Szymanski encourages parents to select toys based on their individual child's appropriate age, interests and developmental needs.

WEBSITE OF THE DAY - babble.com (Pocket-lint via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) - Parenting advice for a new generation. Do they mean us...?

Childhood obesity: All daddy's fault? (Salon.com) - A study finds fathers' parenting styles influence kids' weight.

Good parenting proves profitable (Contra Costa Times) - Sometimes discipline pays ... big. It's becoming a very strange phenomenon, but every time I turn around, I find another reason to like Canada. A guy in Montreal, like so many parents, was going to spring an awesome surprise on his son for Christmas: "Guitar Hero III," one of the most popular

Experienced mums help new ones (BBC News) - A new scheme is launched where women are trained to offer parenting advice to new mums.

Quilts for Charity benefits B.A.R.B.S. (Hot Springs Village Voice) - B.A.R.B.S. Place, a residential treatment center for pregnant and parenting women was the recent recipient of 11 quilts from Quilts for Charity Workshop. B. A. R. B. S. Place is a division of Quapaw House, Inc. which offers a wide array of residential and outpatient treatment services for alcohol and other drug addiction.

Britney Spears' sister is pregnant at sixteen (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Britney Spears' 16-year-old sister, who stars as a schoolgirl in Nickelodeon's popular TV show "Zoey 101," is pregnant.

Everymom Blog (Northwest Herald) - Jami Kunzer writes about parenting. Click here to read her blog.