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A family history of hearing loss does put a newborn at higher risk for having a hearing loss. But rest assured, your baby's hearing can be monitored closely so that if there is a problem, treatment can begin as soon as possible.v

The story you are about to hear is real, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent...

I invested three hours in Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi masterpiece '2001 A Space Odyssey.' I can never get that time back. My attempt at a movie review at the dinner table was also less than great. I should have known better than to try...

Our daughter Olympia (Age 13) is a bright girl but there are days I worry about her...

We been having an ongoing challenge these days in The Daily Kool household. Our boys are at the age when we have to constantly remind them to wash their hands. It's not as if we are obsessive about cleanliness (well, maybe just a little). We do have rules, though. Washing hands after coming in from the outside, after meals and certainly after using the toilet shouldn't be too much to ask, right? Apparently, it just might be...at least for our boys. You should just hear some of the arguments and excuses coming out of our two little guys...everything from "My leg hurts and I can't stand by the sink" to "My hands aren't that sticky from the breakfast syrup." Our favorite of course, is the ever-popular "Hey, we stand up anyway...what's the big deal?" Imagine our embarrassment when our four year old proudly confessed to his grandmother how often he and his brother try to "trick us" into thinking that they've washed their hands (as if we didn't know). Seriously, they expend more energy trying to avoid washing their hands than it would just take to do it already. Sheesh!

We were talking on the phone with our brother yesterday, when we somehow got on the topic of this year's Halloween costume ideas for the kids. Last we heard, our oldest son wanted a black Spiderman costume (easy), while our youngest chose to be Boots, the monkey from Dora (not quite as easy). Anyway, as we were having our conversation, our 8 year old suddenly said from the background that he now wanted to be Arnold from the Magic School Bus television show. We were shocked to find out that our brother, the brilliant pediatrician, had never even heard of this Scholastic series. How embarrassing for him, we teased in our typical smug sibling fashion. Then, much to our brother's glee, our four year old insisted that he now wanted to be Phoebe, the redheaded girl...yeah, like we'll ever hear the end of that one from big brother. Darn it...we hate it when he gets the upper hand!

What are the rules of engagement today when it comes to reprimanding other people's children? 'DOES YOUR mother know you smoke?" Decades later I can still hear the deeply disapproving voice of an elderly lady sitting on a park bench after she had beckoned me and my older sister over to her.

Call it "the homework sign." Ari Tuckman, a psychologist in West Chester, Pa., says he knows the teenager in his office probably has attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) if he hears this: The teen does his homework - but often forgets to turn it in.