Moved to Support, since this is a support question.
@John: more people will see your request for help if you post in the correct section. Very few people look in “General Talk” since most of them want support, not just to talk.
BTW, this has been discussed previously in this forum, but I don’t remember if we came up with a satisfactory solution. If you only want this to be on the home page, you can try using the “Homepage Panes” option and then styling it with CSS. If you want it to be on all parent pages, then I’m not sure of a solution. One alternative would be to avoid parent pages altogether and use Kalin’s post list plugin. My tutorial is here:
http://blog.kjodle.net/2011/10/30/kalins-post-list-a-brief-tutorial/
