Pharmaceutical company agrees to give sick 7-year-old boy medicine
A small North Carolina pharmaceutical company has agreed to provide an ailing 7-year-old boy with medicine that could save his life. Chimerix announced yesterday that the company is starting a new...
View ArticleThings you did as a kid that your kids will never do
You rode around the neighborhood on your bike with a pack of kids. Not an adult in sight. No cell phone in your pocket. If you needed to call Mom, you found a pay phone or hopped into a friend’s house...
View ArticleCharity helping Colombia’s ‘fattest baby’ slim down
A charity organization has stepped into to save the life of what the media is calling “Colombia’s fattest baby.” Santiago Mendoza is 8 months old and at 45 pounds he weighs the same as a typical 6 year...
View Article‘Awkward Family Photos’ are officially art
Every family has the picture-perfect shot of the gang gathered together on the grassy front lawn, at the lake or on the beach at sunset. The girls are in crisp white dresses, the boys in pressed...
View ArticleMoms can’t watch this without getting weepy
In time for Mother’s Day sales, a card company has released a tear-jerker of an ad in which it pretends to be an agency hiring a “Director of Operations.” This executive is responsible for attending to...
View ArticleWould you take your kid to a music festival?
Victoria’s Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio has stirred up a storm of eye-rolling and holier-than-thou admonishment after posting Instagram photos of her 5-year-old daughter, Anja, enjoying the...
View ArticleNewsstands refused magazine with this cover image
The cover of Hip Mama magazine’s issue No. 55 features a provocative image of a topless woman, standing confident and tall, wearing only a long black skirt and a Spiderman mask. Her breasts are...
View ArticleThe Woodlands’ cutest kid on ‘Ellen’
If you haven’t met 5-year-old Kai Langer from The Woodlands, get ready to be overcome with this tiny fountain of adorable. He’s already become known as the world’s best Bruno Mars cover singer, and now...
View ArticleMost embarrassing moments from junior high
For most of us, middle school, or what used to be called junior high, is torture. We are experiencing the strongest genetic impulses nature/evolution/biology/sinful spirits can throw at us, and at the...
View ArticleTips for choosing the right day care center
One of the hardest things about being a working parent is knowing that my kids spend more time on the weekdays in a child care center than they do with my husband and me. Then there’s the knowledge...
View ArticleHouston among Top 10 Big Cities for Moms
If the kids forgot to send Mother’s Day flowers or a card never arrived, don’t lose heart, Houston moms. Just living here is almost enough. The Bayou City cracked the Top 10 in a new list of best big...
View ArticleThe truth about stay-at-home moms
After declining steadily for the last half of the 20th Century, the number of moms staying home to take care of their kids is back on the rise. According to a new Pew Research study, about 29 percent...
View Article25 things all dads should know
All dads have their strengths, whether it’s organizing neighborhood flag foot ball games, sewing American Girl doll wardrobes, building backyard tree houses or whipping up homemade mac and cheese in...
View ArticleIt is now rare for uneducated young adults to have babies while married
The old adage “first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage” is being turned on its head by a younger generation that no longer sees marriage as a precursor to...
View ArticleLittle girl catches babysitter orchestrating home burglary
Kevin McCallister of Home Alone fame meet Abby Dean from Washington, Wisc. Like you, this 4-year-old girl knows how to help catch burglars. The plot line Dean was involved in is a little different from...
View ArticleConsumer group outraged by Girl Scouts’ new partnership with Barbie
The Girl Scouts of America and Mattel are continuing to move forward with a new partnership despite criticism. Last year, the Girl Scouts of America introduced the three-year partnership with the...
View ArticleSee it: Gwen Stefani nurses on the roadside in Switzerland
Breastfeeding advocates are cheering for Gwen Stefani who posted an image of herself nursing in Switzerland on Instagram this morning. The 44-year-old singer-songwriter sits slightly hunched over, with...
View ArticleWhat to do if a restaurant has no changing table
Restaurants depend on families to make money, and that’s why I see a lack of changing table at a family restaurant as an invitation to change my child’s diaper on the bathroom counter. If they didn’t...
View ArticleReport confirms that kids are still expensive
Sure, you could have a luxury car instead of kids, or a tiny island all to yourself, but would a car or tiny island be as enjoyable without the joyful noises created by those cute little...
View ArticleZara pulls children’s tops resembling concentration camp uniforms
Zara pulled a children’s pajama top from many of its international retail sites today after a social media outcry over the shirt’s resemblance to a Nazi concentration camp uniform. The Wild...
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