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Parents taking infants on long flights are turning to medication to help their children sleep. But is the practice safe - or a dangerous abuse of parental power?

It's 6:50 a.m., and the Huff household is in chaos. While mom Rachel coaxes her towheaded son Grant to get off the family computer ("One more minute," he's been saying since 6:30), husband Forrest fries eggs and corned beef hash for daughter Andie, who isn't even out of bed. "I don't want to be that mom who's always yelling, 'Come on!'" says Rachel, still wearing her penguin pajamas and now packing lunch boxes between gulps of tea.

“How do you fly with two toddlers?” That’s what Jessica White wants to know. She’s planning to travel soon with her two toddlers and wrote to Overhead Bin for advice.

When the American Academy of Pediatrics recently recommended that children ride in rear-facing car seats until at least age 2 — up from the previous minimum age of 1 — Internet news sites lit up with outrage. Many parents were hardly eager to embrace the latest medical advice about how to best protect toddlers from serious head, neck and spinal injuries.

Old-fashioned allowance had its place, but can it actually do more harm in today’s society than good? We look at why creating jobs at home for kids to earn money is better than the “pay up” mentality of just a few years ago. Here are five great consequences that can come from the experience of having kids, at any age, earn their keep.

"My one recommendation to parents ... let them talk" and if a child doesn't open up the first time, keep bringing it up but be somewhat clever ...