Journal Walker

Childhood obesity is rising fast in many countries, and the results from a new study may point to one of the reasons. Data from an Australian study found that just over 40% of parents of both underweight and overweight children didn’t see a problem with their children’s weight. The trend is startling, and makes it [...]

Teens with autism can sometimes be faced with behaviors – such as autism anger – which are beyond their control. Anger can occur in many forms but often takes the shape of violence or tantrums.
When it comes to handling uncontrolled anger, it is typically recommended that whenever possible, you should not look at [...]

Autism parents don’t have it easy. You are faced with many more challenges than parents of children without autism do. However, in all of the efforts you are making to take good care of your child, it’s easy to forget that you need to maintain a healthy balance within your other relationships and [...]

SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, is one of the most horrible and heartbreaking losses a family can endure. Striking an otherwise healthy baby of between 1 month and one year old, SIDS is the diagnosis given when a child of this age dies suddenly and an exact cause can’t be found even after a [...]

She’ll be our nation’s First Lady in just a few weeks. But she’s also a mom raising two young daughters. Does that mean that Michelle Obama — the parent — has a more difficult task than most of us? What will she need to teach her kids about money, and the realities of money management?
Beyond [...]