We found this great item for parents and thought we’d share.

It’s a Buggyguard stroller lock. With all the holiday shopping coming up, you may have to park your stroller occasionally. So next time you want to go into the Cheesecake Factory, you…

We came across a story on the news wires that reinforced our decision to go TV-free during the week. You control it or it controls you:

The Nielsen Co. says in a study released last week that children ages 2 to…

After publicly denouncing he had any involvement whatsoever with the Octomom dating reality show, it’s now being reported that Jon Gosselin and his reps were corresponding about the show via e-mail with Elevator Productions, according to Perez Hilton.com.

The celebrity gossip site…

I know a child’s sugar high and subsequent crash can be ugly.  I know most our homes are currently overrun with mini-Snickers, boxes of Dots and other teeth-rotting, obesity-causing treats.  

But for pity’s sake, don’t throw it away. There more constructive ways to deal with…

A model on the November cover of Teen Vogue is a 19-year-old who reveals in the magazine that she is pregnant.Jourdan Dunn is not visibly pregnant on the cover, and Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief Amy Astley said in news reports that…

NOTE: Dear Readers, I am drowning in requests. I cannot accept anymore emails for potential toy testers. It will take me a few days to go through the hundreds of emails you have sent. I will contact those we pick…

There’s been a recall on baby genuis.

Remember the Baby Mozart and Baby Shakespeare videos that transfixed our babies?  In a rather unshocking turnabout, the videos do not actually make your baby smarter.

According to the NYT report:

The Walt Disney Company is…

Elizabeth Olten, a 9-year-old girl from central Missouri, has been missing since Wednesday.

There is a massive search underway. According to news reports:

Elizabeth was listed as an “endangered missing person” and federal authorities have joined the case, White said. The sheriff…

We had been battling our son’s terrible chesty cough for nearly a week. Given all the warnings about giving children over-the-counter cough syrup, I doubted the nightly dose we were giving him would help clear his cough. But as any parent who has…

I’m an education reporter here at the Post-Dispatch and I know I make very infrequent posts on Parents Talk Back, but colleagues convinced me to post this here after it got a few guffaws on Facebook.

So.  Anyway.  Here’s a picture…