When Food is More Than Food. If you are good you can have a cookie! Who hasn’t resorted to a little behavioral bribe?  Food—or more specifically the lovely cookie—has the power to produce miraculous results: kids who wait patiently through phone calls, lines at the bank and even grocery shopping trips that take forever. Don’t do it.  It might just affect your children’s lifelong eating habits. Read more.

Pacifiers and Allergies. Despite the fact that the New York City health department recently started a subway ad campaign warning parents NOT to suck their baby's pacifier clean, new research shows that spreading germs to your baby may be beneficial. Read more.