Kids
The “Whoa” Report: Woman Gives Birth to 19-Pound Baby
Sep 23, 2009 | Filed Under: Babies,Featured,In the News,Kids
Yowza. This picture should be distributed in high school sex education class. If that doesn’t encourage teenage girls to use protection, I don’t know what will…
A woman in Indonesia has given birth to the country’s biggest baby ever — tipping the scales at a whopping 19.2 lbs. He was born vaginally.
eBay Item of the Day: Girls’ Handmade Christmas Outfit for the Low, Low Price of $150!
Sep 22, 2009 | Filed Under: K-6,Kids,Style | Tags: Stylin'
“No, Mom — I said I wanted a Christmas present. Not be a Christmas PEASANT!”
Hot Parenting Trend: Tibetan Nannies
Sep 21, 2009 | Filed Under: Babies,In the News,K-6,Kids | Tags: Childcare
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.
Spanking May Hurt Kids, Study Says
Sep 17, 2009 | Filed Under: In the News,Kids | Tags: Discipline, Yet Another Study
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.
Boy Fakes Kidnapping to Hide Bad Grades (Naturally)
Sep 15, 2009 | Filed Under: In the News,K-6,Kids | Tags: Is Our Children Learning
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. Continue Reading »
Mom Panhandles for Son, Deserves One Hell of a Mother’s Day Gift
Sep 14, 2009 | Filed Under: In the News,Kids,Teens
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.
Children’s Birthday Cakes Gone Wrong: Barbie Edition
Sep 8, 2009 | Filed Under: K-6,Kids | Tags: Birthday Cakes
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! Continue Reading »
The Baby Brag Card
Sep 4, 2009 | Filed Under: Babies,Candy's Column,Kids | Tags: Birth Announcement, Skylar
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 saw the announcement before Aunt Judy in Cincinnati did?! Familial blasphemy! — but now that they’ve been properly notified of Skylar’s arrival, here it is:
Before somebody asks, and you just know somebody will… NO, the corporate watermark was not on the final version. (How did I know somebody would ask? Well, um, because both Mr. Candy and I did when WE saw the mock-up. To which the company responded, “Uh, NO. Duh!” Hmpf. So much for there being no such thing as a stupid question.)
I waded through — just an estimate here — forty gazillion Web sites in an attempt to avoid pink and, as you can see, I was very successful. *AHEM* I also wanted a tri-fold announcement so people would have the option of standing it up somewhere. Unlike, say, the single-sheet postcard version that I, not being a fan of putting stuff on my fridge (until Skye starts cranking out genius renderings of blue sheep with no legs and whatnot), am never sure what to do with. Yes, that’s right: I paid extra money and searched far and wide for the tri-fold because I believed I was doing our peeps a favor. How thoughtful of me, I gloated as I patted myself on the back.
So what did my cousin have to say about our brilliant tri-fold brag card?
“I had to cut up Skylar’s announcement so I could put it on our fridge.”
