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It’s a dad-daughter overnighter in New York for the Obamas

NEW YORK – President Barack Obama is enjoying a father-daughter weekend in New York with his teenage girls. First, though, a little business. The president began his New York over...

DATE: Jul 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Bathroom becomes a battleground for this preschooler

Q: My 4-year-old grandson refuses to use the toilet to poop. He does it on purpose to get back at his parents. He has an 11-month-old sister. He has always been strong-willed toward his pare...

DATE: Jul 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Into the woods with baby and a good attitude

Parenting coach and columnist Meghan Leahy answered questions recently in an online chat. Here is an edited excerpt. Q: We are about to go on a tent-camping trip with our 13-month...

DATE: Jul 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

The best age to get married if you don't want to get divorced

Conventional wisdom has it that the older you are when you get married, the lower your chances for divorce. But a new analysis of family data by Nicholas H. Wolfinger, a sociologist at the U...

DATE: Jul 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Study: Whether you were first, middle or youngest child makes hardly any difference

Was your insanely successful older sibling born to achieve? Is your youngest child preprogrammed to seek the limelight? Nope, says a massive new study analyzing the traits of 377,...

DATE: Jul 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

My No. 1 tip for stay-at-home parents

“What do you want to be when you grow up, Dad?” When my oldest child was 4, she asked me this question while we were watching my wife leave for work. My daughter had obviously pro...

DATE: Jul 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

When parenting twice-exceptional kids, not everything needs to be fixed

My 12-year-old son looked me in the eye and said, “I’m sorry, Mom.” He told me how badly he felt for overreacting – monopolizing the office staff, smacking his Rubik’s Cube against the floor...

DATE: Jul 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Trinity altered world – and a small town’s fate

N.M. atomic bomb test marks 70 years

DATE: Jul 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Baggage Check: Advice for a daughter worrying about her widowed dad and a marriage gone blah

Q: My father is going on three years as a widower after my mom’s death. My biggest concern is that he doesn’t really have any friends. He is not shy or difficult to get along with – he just ...

DATE: Jul 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

The day I realized I was trying too hard and just let my kid play with an acorn

The playground by our house is a magic kingdom. The central structure looks like M.C. Escher collaborated with the Ewoks to create a fantastical tree house. Slides, swings, skateboard ramps,...

DATE: Jul 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Seven must-bring things for cooking on vacation

I love to cook on vacation, an activity I usually have to defend when folks ask how I spent time on holiday. Freed from the detail of tweaking, testing and following recipes, I shop farm sta...

DATE: Jul 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

Why buy nut butter when DIY is healthier, cheaper?

For many parents, back to school time means back to packing lunch for the kids. And that means it’s time to revisit that old lunchbox mainstay, the peanut butter sandwich. The sta...

DATE: Jul 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food