Say goodbye to 2018 at these kid-friendly parties and events around North Texas.
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Pregnancy During the Holidays
Tips and advice from the OB/GYNs at UT Southwestern Medical Center for handling the holidays while you’re pregnant.
Child Care Apps & Services
These apps and services make scheduling, paying and communicating with the best possible caregiver for your little angels quick and easy.
How to Raise Spiritual Kids
While spirituality can be fostered in children through participation in organized religion, it can also be sought — and found — in less structured settings.
Why Three Mothers Placed Their Babies For Adoption
Women with unplanned pregnancies face difficult decisions as they contemplate their abilities to parent as well as their educational prospects, financial situations and personal aspirations. Often, adoption is a logical, albeit heartbreaking, solutio
Winter Camps for Kids on Holiday Break
These programs offer full- and half-day curriculums that teach kids useful new skills like coding, sewing and stirring up savory holiday treats.
Best For Families: Dining + Destinations 2016
We can’t close out the year without highlighting our annual Best for Families: Dining + Destinations winners. You voted for your local favorites, we tallied the results.
Sensory-Friendly Movie Screenings
The frequency of sensory-friendly showings and the variety of what theaters offer has broadened, making them more accessible to more families.
How to Talk to Your Black Kids Honestly About Race
Race is an abstract concept for children to grasp and can prove to be tricky waters for parents to navigate.
How Healthy Is Your Child?
Complete this quiz to get a feel for where your kid falls on the health and wellness spectrum in the areas of sleep, mental health and nutrition.
Raising Fatherless Kids
More than 24 million American children are being raised without the presence of their biological fathers.
How to Talk to Your Kids About Cops
Police officers are not here to scare your child out of a tantrum or threaten to place them in cuffs for not turning in their homework.
18 Dallas-Fort Worth-Based Businesses Catering to New Moms
The Dallas-Fort Worth area is home to a bevy of businesses focused on helping new moms stay empowered and productive as they attend to every coo and cough.
Paranoid Parenting's Pitfalls
Given all the scary segments on nightly newscasts, it’s easy to assume that predators hide behind every corner. Has the inundation of graphic images bolstered an epidemic of paranoid parenting?
A Classical (Arts) Education
It’s easy to foster an appreciation for classic subjects, from opera to cinema, in a child-friendly atmosphere outside the schoolyard.
New Test Aims to Personalize Medicine Based on a Child’s DNA
Whether a medication will work depends on several factors including age, other medications the child might be taking, kidney functions and more. But it also depends on whether the prescribed medication is best matched to a child’s genetic makeup.
How to Stepparent
Blended families are becoming a new norm and taking on the position of stepparent is no easy feat. We spoke with experts to get advice on handling the tricky role of stepparent.
Kids Parties 2016
We asked you to tell us your favorite party spots and tallied up the results. Here you’ll find the best spots for a kids celebration in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
After School Activities for Kids With Special Needs
From music classes to martial arts classes, we’ve rounded up the options to keep your kid with special needs occupied this fall.
STAR Kids: Texas' New Managed Care System
This fall, Texas is implementing a new managed care insurance program called STAR Kids. Many are concerned this won’t be a change for the better.