More than any other job, parenting seems to present challenges for which there are no easy answers. Do you tell your son not to fight back when the bully hits him? Do you insist your daughter continue her piano lessons? Do you pay for A's and B's? ...more

December 27, 2007

School district leaders are pushing forward with plans to open a new school in August to relieve crowding at some University Area schools. ...more

December 22, 2007

TEMPLE CREST - School district leaders are pushing forward plans to open a new school in August to relieve crowding at some University Area schools. The Hillsborough County School Board approved the hiring of an architect for Elementary M, which will be built where Temple Heights Christian School and Baptist Church once stood. ...more

December 19, 2007

QUESTION: Why is it that children are often the most obnoxious and irritating on vacations and at other times when parents specifically try to please them? On those special days, you'd think the kids would say to themselves, "Wow! Mom and Dad are doing something really nice for us, taking us on this great vacation. We're going to give them a break and be really good kids today." Isn't that reasonable? ...more

December 4, 2007

The Hillsborough County School District will turn to an outside company for help in drawing boundaries for a new middle school in Citrus Park. ...more

October 18, 2007

The Hillsborough County School District will turn to an outside company for help in drawing boundaries for a new middle school in Citrus Park. ...more

October 18, 2007

Randy Goggin of New Port Richey didn't like Cheryl Bentley's Sept. 15 op-ed page piece on sex. ...more

October 3, 2007

Parents took their concerns about safety, buses, bullying and nutrition straight to the top at meetings this month. ...more

September 29, 2007

Hillsborough County's next high school isn't scheduled to open until 2009, but the school, its boundaries and the traffic it would bring were on the minds of several parents who attended a meeting with the superintendent Monday night. ...more

September 11, 2007