Parents

We do quite a few annual events here at Cat Country, but there is only one that my daughter demands I take her to: Family Life Expo. Sometimes I actually have some sort of job to do there, but we go whether I'm working or not.

This skill, known as Chompers, is basically a two minute kid-friendly podcast designed to be listened to while brushing. It will give them a basic instruction e.g. "little circles on your top teeth" and then distract them with some jokes, riddles or trivia all the while having them change their brushing tasks.

Most parents enjoy reliving bits of their childhood by watching their kids enjoying the same stuff they enjoyed as a kid. I took my kid out for some putt putt at the new Gyser Park location the other day and she was thrilled. This is one of the great things that I never understood until I had a child of my own...

Summer vacation is only weeks away and once again, working parents will have to make arrangements to juggle child care with their work schedule. I thought I'd ask around the office to see if any of the other parents had any recommendations and two of them brought up The Boys And Girls Club...

On April 14, 2015 a Billings woman made a quick stop at a hardware store in the heights. She made a choice that many parents have made at some point. She chose to leave her child in the vehicle while she went in the store to grab something...

Let me start by saying that I have great respect for teachers. I am not saying that because I am trying to endear myself to anyone or to get some warm and fuzzy feeling. I am saying it because I have a child who goes to school. I'm saying it because I try to be a good parent and help my child with her homework, which gives me just the slightest glimpse into her teacher's experience...

You don't need to be a parent to know that you won't get a lot of sleep when you have a baby.

Our Assistant Business Manager and I were discussing accidents our kids have had and it reminded me of something that happened with my daughter Noel about 10 years ago when she was just 3. We had a sofa that wasn't pushed back against the wall...

This might not come as any surprise to a lot of you, but most teenagers do not have any idea what they are doing when it comes to the world of finances.

An annual Easter egg hunt in Colorado Springs has been canceled this year because of misbehavior — by parents, not kids.

Okay, new fathers, pop quiz: it’s 2 a.m. and your infant hasn’t stopped crying for an hour. What do you do? If you don’t know, maybe it’s time to enroll in baby boot camp.

A boy in Cleveland, OH, who weighs more than 200 pounds, was taken from his mother by authorities last week. Officials were forced to remove the third-grader from his home when caseworkers decided that his mother’s inability to reduce his weight constituted medical neglect.