What is Autism? Autism is a complicated developmental disability that affects the way a person communicates and relates to others. Typically this brain disorder is diagnosed by the age of two or three. It affects children worldwide from various races, ethnic and social groups. Family income, education and/or lifestyle do not seem to affect the [...]

Sexual Abuse Books-Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse-Healing Sexual Abuse Child and Teen Survivors of Sexual Abuse: When Your Child Has Been Molested: A Parent’s Guide to Healing and Recovery I Can’t Talk About It: A Child’s Book About Sexual Abuse Please Tell!: A Child’s Story About Sexual Abuse Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Survivors of Child Sexual [...]

Numerous emails from parents needing help in finding support groups for parents with grown, adult children living at home have arrived in my inbox, especially after reading How to Stop Enabling: When Our Grown Children Disappoint Us and the “Helping vs. Enabling” articles listed there that deal with the difference between helping and enabling and [...]

Baby Needs Checklist for Newborn Babies There are many things a baby needs as a newborn baby and throughout the first few months that you’ll need to have ready and available. It is best to wait until you are at least three months pregnant before buying baby products, baby clothes and outfits, toys and baby furniture [...]

Top 10 List of Christmas Toys for Boys, Girls, Babies and Toddlers Many of the most popular Christmas toys in 2008 for boys, girls, babies and toddlers are included in the list of the hottest Christmas toys of 2008, and it’s important to buy these toys before they sell out and parents have disappointed children come [...]

Hearing the words “I am pregnant” is a parent’s worst nightmare when finding out you have a pregnant teenager saying she is 6 weeks or 7 weeks pregnant, 8 weeks pregnant or more. Dealing with the earth-shattering news that your daughter is pregnant, or your son and his girlfriend are experiencing an unplanned teenage pregnancy, [...]

17 year-old Melissa and her 21 year-old boyfriend Mark want to know how to tell her parents they are getting married. Melissa and Mark secretly got engaged last month on Melissa’s birthday and are planning on getting married soon, and she is very nervous about telling her parents. She’s especially nervous about telling her dad [...]

When you donate Christmas toys to needy children, or abused, sick and neglected children, you provide a glimmer of hope and inspiration for kids in the U.S. and around the world. Holiday donations are desperately needed, such as: donated Christmas toys, clothes, children’s books, stuffed animals and other gifts that provide for children’s basic needs, [...]

Monday’s episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show was dedicated to the “PROTECT Our Children Act”, referring to U.S. Senate Bill 1738 targeting online child predators, according to an official release from Chicago’s Harpo Productions. Please don’t turn away - If this post is the only one you ever read on this site and you are [...]

Before you say “I do”, and preferably before getting engaged, there are hard questions about marriage that need to be asked that may determine the success or failure of your marriage relationship before it even starts. Asking yourself and your prospective spouse the right questions before marriage will not only help you decide if you’ve [...]