Chronicles of a “Mr. Mom”

In many ways, pediatricians do know more than parents. When your doctor says your newborn needs to ride in a rear-facing car seat, don’t argue. When he says your 2-month-old with a 105-degree fever needs to get to the doctor’s office — and fast — you’d better listen.

But there are far more areas that are gray and have no science, or not very good science, to back them up, says our panel of pediatric experts. They say that sometimes, this means your pediatrician is giving you his or her opinion, not medical fact.

Full story: When it’s OK to question your pediatrician’s advice

Will someone please put an end to her misery?

Either get her help - or just leave her alone to do whatever she wants (even if that includes taking her own life).

How many more tens of thousands of our hard-earned tax dollars are going to be wasted in caring for this attention-seeking, two-bit, incapable, terrible-mom piece-of-you-know-what?

What is this world coming to?

Brit Heads to Hospital for Second Time This Month

No parent — indeed, no person — intentionally makes mistakes, but in our innocence as humans, we all make mistakes unintentionally. Here is a short list of some of the more common ones parents make:

* Overexplaining

* Making assumptions

* Passing on constraints

* Child be in charge

Full story: Beware of common parenting mistakes

“Stories of extreme parenting and our overachieving, overscheduled kids are so ubiquitous that it’s hard to separate the issues from the hype. It seems that there’s a new angle each week: Kids are loading up on too many AP classes, they are cultivating passions to impress college admissions officers, they are exhausted, and yet they are competing for bragging rights over who is the most stressed.”

Full story: Extreme Parenting…