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Coach to Players: You Played Like Poop!
Two guesses how I figured out the the coach of Arizona State University had to be a mother. Something about the word "poop" just gave it away. A video of Charli Turner Thorne screaming at her players in the locker room at half-time has gone viral in the past few days. Not because it's strange for a coach to yell or even because this is a female coach.
jeanne
Child Prostitution On the Rise On Craigslist
Need another sad and horribly depressing story about kids? Sorry to have to oblige. Craigslist, home of the great deals on couches and awesome hand-me-down sources for kids clothes, has become the go-to source for people trying to pimp out little kids. And numbers are rising.
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Kids Don't Pay Taxes: Get Them Out of Tea Parties
The beauty of living in America: every single one of those tea parties was allowed to happen this week. I may not agree with them, and I may have laughed hysterically at the use of the word teabagging, but I respect the "partiers" right to protest. But when you give your kid a sign that says "We Work. We Pay Taxes. We Pay a Mortgage. No More Bailouts," you've crossed a line.
jeanne
Amy Winehouse Writing a Children's Book
The best word to describe my daughter's library? Eclectic. We have the bunnies saying goodnight to their room on through to stories about funky jazz cats. But here's where I may have to draw the line: Amy Winehouse says she'll be writing a children's book about her life. Done sputtering?
jeanne
Best Ad for Sperm Donor EVER
Here's hoping you have a slightly better handle on the lineage of the child in your belly than this woman: A North Carolina newspaper ran a legal notice on behalf of a mother searching for the possible father of her baby. Her clues? He was “about 5 feet 7 inches tall, with a light brown complexion and ‘funny’ shaped eyes.” Oh, just wait, it gets better.
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When a Sitcom Actress Gets Pregnant
The problem with hit television shows for the actors can be trying to live their lives around their TV schedule. And for actresses, that means trying to make sure their pregnancies don't intervene with shooting. But CBS's How I Met Your Mother has taken the pregnancies of two of its main actresses (Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders) in stride. They worked around the burgeoning bellies - as most sitcoms do these days - and they played off of them.
jeanne
Miley Cyrus Sleeps In Billy Ray's Bed
Think you've got it bad trying to kick your cosleeping toddler out of your bed? Actress and singer Miley Cyrus recently told Glamour she still likes to crawl into bed with mom and dad on occasion, and she's sixteen. Cyrus told Glamour she sometimes feel immature for her age, and she related that to a desire to sleep with mom and dad, specifically cuddling with her mom, after a long day.
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Genetic Mom Gets OK to Adopt Baby Carried by Partner
It happens every day - kids get adopted. In forward thinking parts of the country, they even get adopted by members of same sex couples. But this was a first. A woman who supplied an egg so her female partner could carry their baby has secured the right to adopt her own genetic child - and there was no dispute between the two parties. No divorce, no acrimoney. This was all about protecting the child.
jeanne
Did Having a Baby Make You Start Thinking About Your Ex?
I wasn't thinking about much when my daughter was three months old. My maternity leave was over, and I was back at work - albeit at a reduced thirty-hour schedule. I didn't have time to think about sex, nonetheless an ex. Turns out some parents have turned the seven-year itch into the three-month itch. Their baby hits three months, and as exhausted and un-sexy as the mothers feel, they start thinking about what their life could have been if they took a different path. Namely, if they picked another partner.
jeanne
Don't Call Her a Tomboy
Ask anyone of our generation what a tomboy is, and as forward-thinking as we might be, you'll get a gender-bending answer. Ask our kids, and you might just get a funny look. It seems the word tomboy is disappearing, or at least the negative connotation that came with it when we were kids.
jeanne
Babysitter Sleeps While Kid Plays Among the Alligators
Your babysitter was never this bad - trust me. A Florida sitter fell asleep on the toilet while her two-year-old charge went out and wandered around in an alligator-infested canal.
jeanne
Six-year-old Goes to Traffic Court
He wasn't behind the wheel, but a six-year-old New Mexico boy was sentenced by a judge to traffic court. After all, it was his fault his mother ended up with a traffic ticket. The boy's mom was pulled over and ticketed for not ensuring her elementary schooler was wearing his seatbelt. Rather than pleading guilty, the mom took the case to court - where she explained to the judge that nothing she does seems to get through to her son the importance of keeping the belt on.
jeanne
Big Deal: Grab a Tiny Piece of World Peace
When a company named Tiny Revolutionary comes out with a t-shirt that makes a bid for peace, you know the world has come full circle. The latest in organic cotton baby and toddler tees from the company that preaches thinking big for little kids, Peace sports origami cranes taking flight off in rainbow colors that will light up their world.
jeanne
Obama Girls Meet the Easter Waterhound
Charlie Brown had the Easter Beagle. Sasha and Malia Obama have the Easter Waterhound. The president's daughters met their new puppy this weekend, just in time to ring in the Easter holiday by hiding their chocolate from him!
jeanne
Mom Charged for Calling Son 49 Times a Day
You can love your kids. Just don't LOVE your kids so much you start stalking them. In a case of helicopter parenting gone absolutely sky high, a seventy-three-year-old Austrian woman has been charged with stalking her son after two straight years of calling him as much as forty-nine times a day for two and a half years.
jeanne
Cupcake Flavored Dental Floss - Too Much?
So you reeeeeaaaaallly want to get your kids to step up on dental hygiene? We've got bubblegum-flavored toothpaste, so why not cupcake-flavored floss?
jeanne
Judge Sentences Families to Do Puzzles
Riddle me this: how do you make parents and their teens work together to create something meaningful? If you're Judge John Sholden, you assign them a thousand-piece puzzle to put together . . . or pay a $500 fine. I'd be picking the puzzle, how about you?
jeanne
Lego My Dinner
You told your kids not to play with their food, but no one ever said anything about their fork and spoon. Have your adult conversation uninterrupted while they play with the Snack & Stack Take Along Utensils from Fred Flare. Not technically Lego (that's a trademarked name), the silicone block handles of the fork, spoon and butter knife fit together just like the real thing for building fun that doesn't embarrass the adults.
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Baby Survives Removal from Life Support
A baby girl whose parents were prepared to take off life support so her heart could be donated came off life support . . . and is holding her own. Baby Kaylee, two months, was born with a rare brain malformation that doctors expected would keep her from every breathing without medical assistance. Her devastated parents made the decision to take her off life support when they learned there was another sick child who could use her heart via transplant.
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Beyonce Shines On Wubb Idol
Forget Sasha Fierce. Beyonce's got a new alter ego - and she's blonde-haired and blue cheeked. The songstress is lending her voice to a new character on Noggin's Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! and can we just say she shines in the role?
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