Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was published ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canva/Motherly As a mom of two, I get it. Letting your kid “help” in the kitchen often means dinner takes twice as long, there’s ...

Young children get sick far more often than adults, and it is completely normal. Most healthy kids come down with about six viral illnesses a year—and preschoolers and early elementary-aged children ...

For many families, deciding when a child is ready for a smartphone can be a difficult and ongoing conversation. A 12-year-old ...

President Donald Trump repeatedly exaggerated the number of vaccines recommended for small children, comparing it with vaccinating a horse. “They give — I mean, for a little baby to be injected with ...

Kids are really the germiest members of the household. In case you didn’t know that from experience, new research published in the journal Pediatrics confirmed that respiratory viruses circulate ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Ran Barzilay, a psychiatrist and researcher at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, won’t be letting his 9-year-old son get a smartphone before age 13. He made the decision based on ...

Kids today tend to be much busier than we were at their age. They participate in more scheduled and organized activities, not to mention the constant stimulation and never-ending stream of ...

(WXIN/WTTV) – A new study shows three out of four parents give their kids a weekly or monthly allowance. The study from Talker Research said the average American school-age kid makes about $52 a month ...