New children’s book takes on mommy’s plastic surgery
Story found on YahooNews.com.
Divorce. Bullies. Foster care. There are books for children on just about every tough subject these days. But mommy’s plastic surgery?
A Florida plastic surgeon has written about just that in “My Beautiful Mommy,” a picture book due out April 28 that tries to calm the fears of kids with parents getting tummy tucks, breast enhancement procedures and nose jobs. Continue reading »
Filed under Motherhood, Parenting | Comment (0)Answers About Urban Parenting
Story found on NYTimes.com.
Following is a first set of answers from Erin Sheehan, the community editor for UrbanBaby, who took questions from readers during the week of Feb. 11 about parenting in New York City and other urban areas. Continue reading »
Filed under Parenting | Comment (0)Bringing babies to bars at cocktail hour
Story found on SFGate.com.
These days, little children are brought along to places that would have been considered inappropriate a generation ago: four-star restaurants, cocktail parties, rock concerts. But for all the sniping from adults who resent this territorial invasion, the onslaught shows no sign of letting up. In fact, one of its latest flash points is the local bar. Continue reading »
Filed under Parenting | Comment (0)Mom Starts Online Toy Rental Service
Story found on Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — After scouring the Internet to fill her house with only the best toys for her infant twin sons, Lori Pope hated to watch the clutter build as the boys lost interest.
If you can rent movies, video games and even handbags online, she thought, why not toys?
That’s the idea behind Baby Plays, a Web-based company Pope launched in October that allows parents to receive four or six toys in the mail every month, assembled and ready for playtime. Continue reading »
Filed under Parenting | Comment (0)Women leave town and children in hands of men
Story found on YahooNews.com.
What would happen if all the women were to disappear from a town, leaving the men to not only work, but also take care of the family and the home?
“It will be a disaster, a complete disaster,” said Kelly Weatherly, who was sent off for a week at a resort, along with almost all the women in her community of 760, leaving the town and its children in the hands of the men. Continue reading »
Filed under Parenting | Comment (0)OBAMA TALKS TO SINGLE MOTHERS IN CA
Story found on MSNBC.com
From NBC/NJ’s Aswini Anburajan
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — As the two leading Democratic candidates for president compete on who can best put the nation on a more prosperous economic track, Obama delineated the difference between the two candidates today as a choice between past and present.
“At this point the contest between myself and Sen. Clinton, I think, really does have to do with the past and the future and you know the American people are not looking simply for a repetition of what happened in the 90s,” he said. Continue reading »
Filed under Parenting | Comment (0)The Mom Test
I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter. She picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that.
‘Why?’ my daughter asked.
‘Because it’s been on the ground, you don’t know where it’s been, it’s dirty, and probably has germs,’ I replied.
At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked,
‘Momma, how do you know all this stuff, you are so smart.’
I was thinking quickly. ‘All moms know this stuff. It’s on the Mom Test. You have to know it, or they don’t let you be a Mom.’
We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information.
‘OH…I get it!’ she beamed, ‘So if you don’t pass the test you have to be the dad.’
‘Exactly,’ I replied back with a big smile on my face.
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Filed under Parenting | Comment (0)Baby Names: Why Cool is Hot … and what your child’s name says about you
Story found on Parenting.com.
Gone are the days when most parents just called their child Ralph or Neil or Lisa or Ellen — something traditional or just a little trendy — and moved on. Sure, we wanted a name we liked, but we also wanted, in a way, to fit in. Continue reading »
Filed under Parenting | Comment (0)Baby’s palate reflects mom’s
Story found on TheStar.com.
Study: If a breastfeeding mother wants her baby to learn to like fruits and vegetables, she should eat them regularly herself, according to an article in this month’s issue of the journal Pediatrics. The research was done at the non-profit Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia and was funded by the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Canadian Institutes of Health. Continue reading »
Filed under Motherhood, Parenting | Comment (0)Goodnight Moon, goodbye sex
Story found on SanLuisObispo.com.
In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon and a picture of … a once very happy couple who are now in marriage therapy because she never wants sex and he’s just an ungrateful dog who doesn’t have any idea what she’s … Continue reading »
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