Kids
Sep 21, 2009
Mommyhood has opened a whole new world, hitting me with one bizarre surprise after the other. There’s the bias against formula-feeders, for example. The stroller as a status symbol. And, now, the Tibetan nanny trend.
Sep 17, 2009
Well, duh.
According to a new study of more than 2,500 toddlers from low-income families, spanking may have detrimental effects on behavior and mental development.
Sep 15, 2009
The “dog ate my homework” excuse is SO last decade…
An 11-year-old boy went to great lengths to avoid bringing home a bad report card, telling police that a man with a pistol snatched him after he left Ed White Middle School.
Sep 14, 2009
Talk about a mom who’s going above and beyond…
Shelle Curley of Bellevue, Wash. doesn’t have the money to pay for her son’s senior year of high school at the prestigious Idyllwild Arts School in California, so she is standing at freeway on-ramps to beg for the money.
Sep 8, 2009
Uh-oh. Run for your lives, kids! …AND BRING YOUR SUGARY SWEETS WITH YOU!
This is what happens when you feed the emaciated Barbie after midnight:
She turns into part princess, part cake monster! ROAR!
Sep 4, 2009
After posting my silly “birth announcements gone horribly wrong,” a number of readers e-mailed me requesting to see our REAL brag card, er… I mean, birth announcement for Miss Skye. I couldn’t post it before all of our friends and family members received it — Can you imagine the family brouhaha I’d create if YOU [...]
Sep 3, 2009
While browsing the children’s section at Barnes & Noble, I came across this most, um, curiously titled kids’ book FEATURED on the wall:
Sep 2, 2009
If Miley Cyrus has taught us anything, it’s that you can never start pole dancing too early. And now, thankfully, there’s a new educational Pole Dance doll to help young girls get a leg up (so to speak)!
