Nicole F is worried about her 11-year-old daughter, Brittany, a victim of bullying. Changing schools doesn't seem to do the trick; three schools and counting and things haven't gotten better. Nicole feels alone in her struggle to help her daughter. Other parents have told their kids not to...

It turns out that breastfeeding doesn't actually protect against later childhood obesity. This finding -- based on results from a major random control study involving the outcomes of nearly 14,000 children in Belarus -- comes as no surprise to those of us who have devoted much...

For many of us already struggling to find that ever-elusive balance between work and family life, Marissa Mayer's announcement that Yahoo! employees must return to their desks initially comes across as old school patriarchic boorishness -- but with a postmodern twist. The patriarch is a hot young mommy...

February 12 was Bell Let's Talk day. A day to talk about mental illness. A day to combat stigma. A day to say we need to allocate way more than 5 per cent of our heath spending dollars on a problem that affects over 20 per cent of...

The call for more education about the benefits and safety of breast milk in the wake of last week's story about a couple suing Alberta Health Services for giving their baby another mother's breast milk is not only typical, it's also off-mark.

Celeste and Jeffrey Fleming's baby...

Wednesday's story about an Air Canada flight being delayed by weather and leaving a 13-year-old passenger overnight at Toronto's Pearson airport with nothing more than a $10 food voucher should not be read as a warning for parents to purchase the hand-holding Unaccompanied Minor (UM) service for...

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My friend Susie is in the midst of "night-time waking" hell with her four-month-old daughter, Jess (not their real names). Instinct tells her Jess is hungry and that's what's causing the continued waking. Susie, being committed to breastfeeding, is torn about what to...