It seems times have changed, as youngsters in 2016 are demanding everything from cash to iPads from the beleaguered tooth fairy - with some even demanding their teeth back.

Research has uncovered the startling relationship between the number of ads seen by youngsters and the amount of breakfast products they consumed as a result.

"This is a helper. This is kind of like having as night nurse or nanny."

COMMENT: Once you fix the kids, you get fewer violent adults down the track.

Today's kids have never experienced a world without the internet. Rose Hoare asks how parents and grandparents are coping in a new, high-tech world.

The packed school lunch has been elevated to a form of art.

At just four years of age Bella Devyatkina is wowing the world with her language skills.

Like most people, I knew basically nothing about miscarriage until it happened to me, writes Alice Callahan.

Why being a stay-at-home father is a testosterone-free existence, writes Keir MacKenzie.

An American baby born with an adult-sized tongue can finally breathe, and smile, on its own.

COMMENT: When it comes to feeding our kids, Megan Nicol Reed believes our approach is all wrong.

When strangers ask Craig Heatley how many children he has, he has to pause before deciding how to answer.

Mothers share why they wish they'd just gone for one of the classics when they named their babies.

At best, this Roadkill Pet Halloween costume - sold by the Duchess of Cambridge's family firm for seven-year-olds - could be described

By now, shouldn't we all be aware of what mental illness looks like? Kyle MacDonald explains why Mental Health Awareness Week, which began on Monday, is crucial.

Posing on the latest cover of Harper's Bazaar, Paltrow opens up about her foray into fashion, her ballsy daughter and being content in her 40s.

As a child, Ash Goddard was proud of her unique hair colour. But all that changed when she started high school.

A new book about the effects of marital breakdowns reveals the impact on children, as told by them.

The next time you're at a restaurant and the kids are moaning, "Where is our food?" maybe this will help.

A sweet initiative between a knitting group and Kelly Tarlton's means cute woolies and funds for Plunket babies.

A US woman was surprised to find she had been charged a fee for a skin to skin moment with her newborn.

Women around the world have documented the pain, anguish, anxiety and joy that having a baby brings.

Sarah Michelle Gellar will "never push" her children to be actors.

A US woman has been convicted over several child abuse acts, including her role in what prosecutors called a "baby fight club."

Labour leader Andrew Little says Labour's child policies are still in development after appearing to recommit to the 2014 'Best Start' policy of $60 a week payments for newborns.

Six rainy-day activities to keep the kids engaged and you sane these school holidays.

Not your typical sick note, this mother's explanation for her teenage daughter's absence has gone viral.

A mother is warning parents to be cautious of germs on shopping trolleys after her baby ended up in ICU.

COMMENT: I've been putting my kids at risk lately and, apart from a few major incidents, it's working out great.

Baby-led weaning, or getting your infant to eat finger food, could hold the cure for childhood obesity.