THE average parent will read the same bedtime story to their little one 416 times a year. A poll of 1,000 mums and dads with children aged up to four, found 79 per cent have re-read the same book ...

Dads are masters of bedtime and bath time and wiping away tears. They might not always know what to say, but they enter each conversation with love and compassion for their children. Dads teach ...

Like any mother, I would gladly contract every plague known to nature if it would spare my children pain. But my subject here ...

It's something that I appreciated later, of course, when I was well into my teens, after watching a few parents instantly giving into the demands of their children. My mother didn’t just say a ...

A few weeks ago, while driving to church services, I passed by a local YMCA. It was a beautiful Sunday morning, with the last ...

Moms mentioned how their kids would do everything from stroke their eyelashes while they fell asleep, to play with their hair. Of course, plenty of other women chimed in to say that their babies did ...

But 77 per cent admitted they chose the topic of bedtime with the intention of getting their children to sleep more easily, while 43 per cent let their child pick the title. Parents feel the ideal ...