In an attempt to drive home an important message to his son, Kevin Burks had his son walk along a street with a sign saying “Homeless, Won’t Listen to Parents.” Over the weekend, Kenny, Burks’ 12-year-old son, was out and decided to spend the night at his friends. However, he did not call to check ... read more »

A Montgomery County, Pennsylvania man plead guilty on Tuesday to charges of child endangerment for abandoning his daughter at a shopping mall. According to police, the father’s motive was simply that the daughter got a bad grade in school. The 16-year-old received a bad grade on her calculus test, she was forced to pack and ... read more »

A couple in downstate Illinois have come under intense criticism after they made their 8-year-old daughter, Amiyah White, wear a sandwich board sign that read, “I like to steal from others and lie about it.” The young girl was forced to wear the side outside her elementary school in Swansea, Illinois. Parents and students observed ... read more »

Two daycare workers at the Muscogee Creek Daycare in Oklahoma are accused of giving  a 13-month old boy hãbañerõ sauce while denying him anything to drink. Police reports accuse daycare workers Rosie Hicks, 49, and Tracy Owens, 36,  of giving the baby hot sauce and then laughing as the tot cried. The toddler, who has ... read more »

A family pizzeria in Atlanta, Ga., is asking parents to “tend to their crying tots outside.” A new message on the front of their menu asks parents to be mindful of their children’s crying as they have received numerous negative online reviews due to the noise level and unruly behavior of certain kids. The restaurant ... read more »

Being a parent can be tough sometimes. We all have our own methods of parenting, right? One father has taken the “tough love” approach too far. He Liesheng and his wife, natives of China, who were visiting New York with their family, to celebrate the Lunar new year, forced his four year-old son to run ... read more »

A new study published this week in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology suggests that the wrong approach to parenting for a particular child’s personality could increase the child’s anxiety and depression. The study found that kids who lack self-control become more anxious if their mom uses a laid back style of parenting. Kids who have more self discipline tend to be more ... read more »

It seems like the administrators of “tough love” may have gone a little too far in the marketing. Federal investigators are looking into a number of youth “boot camps” — essentially boarding schools for troubled kids — for engaging in deceptive practices in encouraging parents to send their kids there. We weren’t aware this was ... read more »

Now, our kids can get just as unruly as the next, and we’ll admit we’ve daydreamed about some creative punishments for the little buggers — locking them in the garage, throwing them in an alligator pit, running them through the car wash… the difference is that these are fantasy stress relievers, we don’t actually do ... read more »