You've been dreaming about your Holiday for too long now. You keep getting yourself excited for a well-deserved relaxing break. You can't wait to enjoy the sun and put all your troubles behind you. But when travelling with the kids, this can be, at times, a difficult task. When you arrive, your kids want all the attention and are running you around everywhere. So what's the best way to keep them entertained without it involving any of your time. Read on.

Today the Huffington Post reinforces what I realize every time I write my son's daycare check: Parenting is incredibly expensive. Last year the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates put the cost at around $300,000 for a middle-class family; the WSJ says that it's a "severe underestimate." (And I would agree, since that's about what we pay for preschool. Just kidding. Kind of.) The WSJ says the figure is more like $900,000, when you factor in things like the lost wages incurred by stay-at-home parents and the astronomical cost of college. Read on.

IT'S been a week into the mid-year school break and there's one more week to go. How's the condition of your house? Is it being turned upside down by the kids yet? Kids with a lot of free time can mean trouble. They can create a lot of headaches for unprepared parents. All they do is play, and they play very noisily. Many parents often dread long school breaks because of this. Read on.

When I was eight months pregnant, my British husband and I were living in my native country of India. I don't know how – and I wish I did, so that I'd know to avoid these awkward detours in conversation in the future – but chatting with my mother one afternoon, I landed on the subject of car seats. How my husband and I intended to buy one so that we could, you know, bring the baby home safely. Read on.

It's a sign of just how deep tensions are around parenting today that, over two years after Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" was published, its combination of shocking revelation, serious reflection and tongue-in-cheek exaggeration still sends T. Rex-scale ripples skittering across the surface of our sociocultural Dixie cups. Read on.

This past Sunday was Mother's Day. But for Asians everywhere, yesterday was Tiger Mother's Day, when kids whose handmade cards have been rejected as half-assed traditionally turn in second drafts, desperately hoping that this time, their craftsmanship will meet muster. (Think you'll earn tigro-maternal approval with anything less than decoupage and letterpress embossing? Fat chance. And speaking of fat, you've put on a few pounds, haven't you? Less dining hall, more study hall, chubbo!) Read on.

It's been 70 years since the idea of the "good enough mother" was popularised by psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. Since then, there's been a plethora of parenting advice, with everything from the naughty step to a time limit on cuddling catching on. Read on.

It's easy to turn parents into a caricature of sorts. There's the bumbling diaper-illiterate Dad who intently watches ESPN while his toddler scales a bookshelf, and sincerely can't say if his son just turned 7 or 8. Standing above him is the disheveled, frumpy Mom who wears the (yoga) pants in the family -- chauffeuring over-scheduled kids in her mini van, micro-managing household chores, and withholding sex as a marriage tactic. Read on.

Parents may think they can keep their kids safe by hovering over them, but a new study finds that children of overprotective parents are more likely to be bullied.

And on the other end of the spectrum, having abusive or neglectful parents also seems to make kids a target for bullies, according to an analysis of 70 studies that included more than 200,000 children. Read on

The Sydney Philharmonia Choirs sing a 'modified' version of Carmina Burana. Read on.

1. Bathe your child in a laundry basket so that their toys don't float away.

2. Avoid committing a gender faux pas with other parents.

3. Teach your child to pick up a juice box by the side flaps. Read on.

"The days are long but the years are short" has got to be one of the truest parenting clichés ever spoken. But sometimes, those days -- especially for parents of young children -- are truly too long, and it can be all too easy to forget how fleeting the years are. Read on.

When babies are born, they lie on their mothers’ breasts, wild heartbeat to wild heartbeat, and start the long introduction that winds itself around to their eventual separation. When my son Jacob was born, I didn’t know that I was ever supposed to put him down. He napped on my chest, and when his eyes opened, they were always greeted by my own. I nursed, rocked and changed his diapers until his eyelids grew heavy again, then I settled him back down on me, rubbing the two-square-inch patch of his tiny back. Read on.

You know what the best part of having jobs always was for me? Quitting them. Sure, I had a couple jobs I actually liked, the best being an indie video store in college (Bongo Video in Madison, WI - now closed, sadly) but I had plenty of really crappy ones. Glory was found in quitting. Read on.

Digital parenting is just plain hard. Tim Woda, co-founder of UknowKids.com, understands this and is trying to help parents in the Internet age.

"Answer me this -- do you know who your child made friends with on Facebook yesterday?" Woda poses this question whenever he discusses Internet safety with concerned parents. Read on.