No time to exercise since you have a baby?

Get a baby jogging stroller or baby jogger and you can have the best of both worlds: you can exercise and your baby can have fresh air.

Baby jogging strollers come in many styles, colors, and prices. Some great brands are Baby Trend, Baby Jogger, InStep, Schwinn, Bob, Dreamer Design, Tike Tech, and Phil & Ted.

Following are the bestsellers and remember to check out in the reviews what others have to say about a particular model. You don’t want to end up buying what you don’t need.

As the gunman was about to open fire, 7-year-old Alexis Goggins lunged from the back seat of the SUV and threw herself across her mom, crying, "Don't hurt my mother!"

Six bullets from the 9 mm handgun slammed into Alexis, one piercing her right eye. Two slugs hit her mother.

Alexis' mother pulled through. But two weeks later, Alexis lies in critical condition, blind in one eye. And to her classmates and many people in this city so depressingly familiar with violence, the little girl is a hero.

"She was trying to save me,'' her mother, Seliethia Parker, 30, told The Associated Press on Monday. "My baby is just an angel to her mother. I thought as the mother, I'd be saving my child. I never thought my daughter would be saving me.''

Alexis has undergone three operations since the shooting, and her mother sits by her bedside at Children's Hospital of Michigan.

As for the mother, she was seriously wounded, with one slug grazing her head and the other entering her chest and stopping just short of an artery. But she was released from the hospital just a few days later.

Full report: Child Shot Protecting Mom Hailed a Hero

“Hi buddy, how was school today?” “Fine,” my son offered unenthusiastically.

We’d been here before, and I knew enough not to push any further. For the moment, I’d have to visualize what “fine” might look like.

There are times for all parents when getting information from your kids is challenging, but for fathers the challenge is often greater. Many fathers don’t share emotions with their kids the way their mothers’ do, and many fathers struggle to support and listen to their kids, wanting to give advice instead.

With all that growing weight up front, how is it that pregnant women don't lose their balance and topple over? Scientists think they've found the answer: There's are slight differences between women and men in one lower back vertebrae and a joint in the hip, which allow women to adjust their center of gravity.

This elegant evolutionary engineering is seen only in female humans and our immediate ancestors who walked on two feet, but not in chimps and apes, according to a study published in Thursday's journal Nature.

"That's a big load that's pulling you forward," said Liza Shapiro, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas and the only one of the study's three authors who has actually been pregnant. "You experience discomfort. Maybe it would be a lot worse if (the design changes) were not there."

Harvard anthropology researcher Katherine Whitcomb found two physical differences in male and female backs that until now had gone unnoticed: One lower lumbar vertebrae is wedged-shaped in women and more square in men; and a key hip joint is 14 percent larger in women than men when body size is taken into account.

Full report: Why pregnant women don't topple

You don’t need to go to a science center to teach your toddler science and nature. You can do it at home, through games and activities, with everyday items.

Why games? Because you can help your toddler to turn an otherwise boring subject into something to look forward to.

What can I say; you and your toddler can learn, bond, play, and have fun at the same time. To top it up, these games are free as you only make use of what you already have at home.

Activities and games listed below are best for children between 2-5 years old. Let’s get started.

We are extremely glad to have him on this interview. He’s none other than Mac Bledsoe. Mac is the President, Founder and author of the parenting curriculum Parenting with Dignity. The Parenting with Dignity curriculum presents effective techniques for raising responsible, independent children. It’s available in the forms of DVDs and books.

Mac and the Parenting with Dignity curriculum has been featured on NBC’s Today Show, ABC's 20/20 television show, and on numerous national and local radio and television programs.

In this interview, Mac is going to cover a wide spectrum of topics concerning today’s parents.

Enjoy!

Anyone who knows the fundamentals of conception will know that it is more likely to occur during the ovulation part of a woman’s cycle when the egg is released from the ovaries.  In fact, just before and just after are the optimum times.  But how do you work out when you’re ovulating?

Some women can actually tell they’re ovulating by the cramps they feel – slightly different sensations to period pain cramps – and also by food cravings, slight flushes in temperature, lower back pain and a range of other symptoms, some common, and some peculiar to a handful of women.

I can see the enormous improvement in my daughter, J, during our monthly hiking trip last weekend.

J is shy and introvert by nature. But in this trip, she opened up like I never see before.

A Great Weekend Getaway - Christmas Run

Since this was a Christmas run, the hiking club invited a clown to entertain the kids. They danced, they played and they watched magic show.

The highlight was Santa Claus presenting gifts to all the kids there. In actual fact, this was pre-arranged. Parents had bought gifts before coming to the trip. The gifts were given to Santa and he distributed the gifts as though the presents were from him.

U.S. health officials alerted the public on Tuesday about the deaths of two patients who were treated with a prescription drug to control bed-wetting.

The Food and Drug Administration said it was unclear whether the drug, desmopressin, had contributed to the deaths. But the agency said nasal versions were no longer approved for treating bed-wetting and doctors should consider other options.

Desmopressin is sold under the names DDAVP Nasal Spray, DDAVP Rhinal Tube, DDVP, Minirin and Stimate Nasal Spray. Makers include Sanofi-Aventis and several generic companies.

Other forms of the drug "should be used cautiously" in patients at risk of sodium imbalances that can be caused by over-hydration, the FDA said.

The agency reviewed 61 reports of patients treated with desmopressin who developed seizures related to hyponatremia, when sodium is too low. Two of the patients died.

Full report: US warns about bed-wetting drug after two deaths

A teaspoon of honey before bed seems to calm children's coughs and help them sleep better, according to a new study that relied on parents' reports of their children's symptoms.

The folk remedy did better than cough medicine or no treatment in a three-way comparison. Honey may work by coating and soothing an irritated throat, the study authors said.

"Many families are going to relate to these findings and say that grandma was right," said lead author Dr. Ian Paul of Pennsylvania State University's College of Medicine.

The research appears in December's Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Federal health advisers have recently warned that over-the-counter cough and cold medicines shouldn't be used in children younger than 6, and manufacturers are taking some products for babies off the market.

Three pediatricians who read the study said they would tell parents seeking alternative remedies to try honey. They noted that honey should not be given to children under age 1 because of a rare but serious risk of botulism.

Full report: Try Honey for Children's Coughs

These are not your conventional men’s Christmas gifts. No, we are not talking about iPods, golf equipment and not even about wine club memberships.

It’s something your man or husband will love to receive. And yet it’s so unique that he never thinks of it.

Be different this year. Give something unusual and unique for this year’s Christmas to your husband or boyfriend and this will surely leave a lasting impression on him.

Hateful text messages, abusive e-mails and cyber-gossip are giving bullies new power over their victims -- even in the supposed safety of their own homes, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

And most of the victims are themselves new, with two-thirds of children who report such harassment saying they had not been bullied before in other ways.

Schools and parents must work together to find ways to stop such behavior, without robbing children and teens of valuable Internet access, the resaarchers agreed.

"Internet bullying has emerged as a new and growing form of social cruelty," Kirk Williams and Nancy Guerra of the University of California at Riverside wrote in one of a series of reports published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

The reports, from researchers organized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show a 50 percent increase in the number of kids aged 10 to 17 who said they were harassed online -- from 6 percent in 2000 to 9 percent in 2005.

Full report: Teens take bullying to the Internet

Prices of existing U.S. single-family homes in the third quarter slumped 4.5 percent from a year earlier, matching a record decline from the previous period as the housing downturn deepened, according to a national home price index on Tuesday.

The S&P/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index fell 1.7 percent from June, marking the largest quarterly decline in the index's 21-year history, S&P said in a statement.

Robert Shiller, a Yale University economist and co-developer of Standard and Poor's S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, on a Standard & Poor's teleconference following the release, said that at this point there is substantial concern and uncertainty about the outlook for the U.S. housing market.

Full report: Home price drop largest on record

Here’s a list of 12 kids recipes you can try for yourself: two from each of these categories: desserts, fruit and veggie concoctions, snacks, drinks, bakery, and dinner.

Cooking is an excellent way to bond with your kids. You may want to involve your kids in the preparation.

Hope you and your kids will enjoy the dishes.