They serve us and our fears, in this age of amber alerts and public sexual predator registries. In this case they responded to a civilian report, and if they erred, it was on the side of caution. My ...

Helicopter parenting, a term first popularized by Dr. Haim Ginott in his 1969 book Between Parent and Teenager, describes a style of parenting where mothers and fathers hover excessively over their ...

Gail Cornwall said it was important to her to raise confident children. Mom Gail Cornwall allows her children to walk home from school without adult supervision. She lets her 9-year-old commute to ...

Before you entered the parent world, "free-range" was likely a term you only encountered when ordering chicken on date night. Dawn Friedman MSEd, a clinical counselor with Child Anxiety Support, used ...