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TLC Life Essentials: Costs of Having a Baby

Related Article: Learn more about budgeting and saving.

It's expensive to have a baby. Here are some tips on financial planning for your family on The Learning Channel's "TLC Life Essentials."

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Connected Life: Baby Tech (Part 1) (2:36)

ConnectedLife is all about babies as we visit UBC's Baby Cognitive Lab. Stop crying - this is ConnectedLife Visit media2o.

TLC Family Guide: Gender Identity (1:29)

The role of gender in children's lives can be somewhat ambiguous until they are 6 or 7. They do not yet have a firm grasp of themselves or their place in their environment until that time.

Skills for Healthy Living: Changes During Adolescence (2:46)

Keeping a sense of humor is an effective way of coping as natural changes, unhealthy behaviors and hormonal disorders combine to make adolescence a stressful phase of life.

Skills for Healthy Living: Remarriage (1:56)

By talking among themselves, family members in a remarriage situation can ease the difficult process of learning to live together.

Skills for Healthy Living: The Pain of Divorce (2:34)

Teens can heal from the major changes of their parents' divorce by learning to appreciate both parents as individuals and looking ahead instead of back.

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Skills for Healthy Living: Dealing With Disabilities (28:31)

Living with a health condition or disability presents a big challenge to some teens, but it doesn't have to keep them from achieving their goals. Learn more about dealing with disabilites in this video.

Look Who's Balking: The Cost of Having a Child (4:35)

Having a baby and raising a child takes love, honor and commitment.

Look Who's Balking: Child Discipline (4:57)

Disciplining your child can be difficult. Many parents don't wish to inflict physical pain and use alternative techniques instead.

Look Who's Balking: Tips for Healthy Pregnancy and Baby (1:05)

This video provides tips for a healthy pregnancy and baby.

Look Who's Balking: Childproofing the House (0:49)

As soon as they are mobile, babies begin exploring their environment and getting into things they aren't supposed to. Because children don't know the hazards of everyday items, it is important to childproof your home.

Look Who's Balking: Understanding Your Responsibilities (2:55)

Before the baby arrives, new parents need to make sure they fully understand the responsibilities of parenthood.

Look Who's Balking: Before Having a Baby (0:57)

This video educates parents on what they should know before having a baby. Being a parent is tough, and the "Look Who's Balking" video series provides honest information about parenting for people thinking about having a baby.

Parent's License: The Decision to Become a Parent (2:40)

Not all couples are ready financially, emotionally or physically to become parents.

Parent's License: Sacrifices and Responsibilities (4:27)

Potential parents meet their future children and learn that the real test of parenting is how to react when the children are at their worst.

Parent's License: Shared Responsibility and Sacrifice (3:57)

A magician encourages potential parents to think about some specifics of being parents, such as child birth, discipline, sacrifices and responsibilities.