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To Vaccinate of not to vaccinate? Parents have been wrestling with this question for years. Far before the H1N1 virus raised concerns about the safety of flu shots; a number of myths have complicated the decision. Today we'll look at five of them.

Today, parents and teachers agonize about when to say no, how to say no and whether the word “no” should even be used with children at all. In this segment, two experts face off in an attempt to find the balance between being too permissive and too restrictive.

Dr. Gary Small says that overexposure to technology alters your child's brain and can impact a number of important, basic social skills. How can you determine if your child is addicted to technology and, more importantly, what should you do if she is? Tune in and find out.

Trumpet lessons, tennis lessons, soccer, gymnastics, Boy Scouts... While some argue that today's children are overbooked, overscheduled and stressed out, some children just seem to thrive on the lots of activity. So how much is too much? Listen in as two experts try to answer this question.

Learn why exposing children to multiple languages as early as possible is an asset to so many parts of a child's development.

Lenore Skenazy says that telling kids not to talk to strangers is one of the most useless and misguided pieces of advice ever foisted on us. Lenore turns conventional wisdom on its head and asserts that we're not teaching safety to kids but in fact are just teaching fear and preventing kids from developing critical street smarts. Debbie Johnston strongly disagrees. Hear both sides...

The race is starting earlier and earlier. Increasingly parents are entering their children in the race to succeed and pushing them to achieve more and more faster and faster. But though, for some, the rat race now begins at birth, a growing number of voices are starting to push back and are removing their children from the race.

Bullying is on the rise and is a problem that impacts children, parents and teachers. Once a person is a victim of bullying, he or she can be impacted for life. Since bullying can start early the earlier parents and teachers learn how to handle bullying the better.Jane Katch offers some field tested advice.

Someone once defined difficult parents like this: They don't do what you want them to do, they do what you don't want them to do and you don't know what to do about it. In this segment, Dr. Fiore explains why the number of difficult parents is skyrocketing and shares savvy insights and specific tips for dealing with difficult them.