13 Percent of Teens Have Posted Naked Pictures of Themselves Online: Study Finds Parents Don’t Know How Their Kids Use Social Media

It’s no surprise, parents can be clueless about how their children behave. I know I got away with a few things as a kid. However, what used to be relatively harmless behavior before the internet now has much broader and more lasting implications.
Online pictures, videos and conversations remain online and can easily be made public. [...]

Sports Drinks and Children: Do They Mix?

We’re in the dog days of August now and should take heed of the ramifications of one University’s research on child athletes and hydration.
The study found that child athletes from 9-16 failed to drink enough water to stay hydrated during athletic activity. That problem is exacerbated by the fact that they routinely fail to drink [...]

Your Child, the Tween & Sex

We live in a hypersexualized culture where young girls already want to be ’sexy’ even while still believing in Santa Claus. Sharon Maxwell’s new book The Talk: What Your Kids Need to Hear from You About Sex is a fantastic resource to help parents understand today’s youth sexual culture and jump start a productive dialog [...]

No clear answers in drunken breast-feeding arrest

Stacey Anvarinia called police to report that her boyfriend had assualted her. While police were conducting their investigation, they noticed that Anvarinia was drunk and that she was breastfeeding her 6-week-old baby. Police arrested the woman and charged her with child neglect.
Since then, the blogosphere has erupted in debate about whether drinking while breastfeeding is [...]

Florida Court Protects Those Who Enable Child Sex Abuse

Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeals recently handed down a ruling that weakens Florida’s strong protection for victims of childhood sexual abuse and protects those who enable the abusers.
In Rodriguez v. Favalora, the court ruled that Florida law does not allow victims who remember their childhood abuse later in life to file suit against those [...]