Family and parenting

A Baltimore ACE (adverse childhood experiences) trainer, and a survivor or childhood trauma himself, explains why — and how to help.

Baltimore brothers follow their out-of-this-world dreams from a cardboard spaceship to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

We should be horrified not simply by where children are being housed, but also because they are being unnecessarily removed from their families in the first place.

To paraphrase George Santayana, those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. I refuse.

Baltimore’s Fleet Week is a part of a U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard tradition that brings recently-deployed active military ships to several major cities for one week.

A 5-year-old's heartbreak at losing her stuffed bunny on a family trip prompts strangers to spring into action.

“Because it’s only food stamps,” theft victim feels pushed to the side in DHS and police caseloads amid nationwide benefits fraud scheme.

As this week showed me, even scheduling something as simple and vital as a colonoscopy is impossible without help when you're a parent.

Nearly two dozen officers each earned more than $100,000 in hourly pay and overtime combined from October 2020-October 2021 by staffing Orioles and Ravens games and working at city pools and after-school events.

After 2 1/2 hours of cutting down greenery, Paul Newson's kids were ready for liftoff.

Students from Baltimore City and Baltimore County are hoping for a return to normalcy when classes resume on Monday, but schools are still struggling with teacher shortages and COVID concerns.

Only a third of Maryland's fifth and eighth graders scored proficient on the state's new science test, which are the first test results since 2019.

Whether you’re new to Baltimore or a longtime resident, here are some great hacks for making living in Charm City easier.

You don’t have to be old enough for a bank account to start to understand money.

In Baltimore, these pockets of lack of access to providers concentrate in the Southeast and South region of the city.

Parenting is an emotionally unpredictable enterprise. Doing it in public ratchets up the unpredictability — don’t make it worse by staring or scolding.

Summertime presents a conundrum for working parents: what the heck to do with kids too young to stay home alone.

As the virus continues to mutate, public health experts said infections may become more common and more severe among those who have been boosted and recently infected.

Lawyers are reporting an uptick in concerns about wills, status of marriages and power of attorney.

I brought my son to see ’80s band Tears For Fears and it was cheaper than a sitter.