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Fruit Roll Ups, Fruit by the Foot and Fruit Gushers aren’t exactly marketed as health foods. They do, however, claim to be “naturally flavored, low fat, and a good source of Vitamin C.” But while all that may indeed be true, a woman in Brooklyn claims there is something General Mills, which owns Betty Crocker’s brand fruit snacks, isn’t telling us about their popular products: They contain partially hydrogenated oil. Continue reading »
He’s back.
Disgruntled former Britney Spears bodyguard Fernando Flores surfaced yet again today in the UK Sun newspaper to claim the pop star sensation is hitting her children with a belt. Continue reading »
Babble recently posed the question, “What counts as cheating online?”
However you answer that question, if you cross the line, it’s likely that a divorce lawyer will find out about your online transgressions. Posting personal information on social networks such as Facebook has made divorce lawyers’ job a lot easier.
The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers says 81 percent of its members have used or faced evidence found on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn over the past five years, according to AP. Facebook leads the pack in terms of online evidence, with MySpace a distant second. Continue reading »
Elizabeth Edwards is not just a cuckolded wife. That’s what she told Matt Lauer on the TODAY show this morning. Indeed, she is also mothering two young children while being treated for breast cancer that has spread to her legs, spine and skull. According to new research, she’s not the only parent trying to help and heal at the same time.
A study published online in the journal Cancer shows that “more than 1.5 million cancer survivors in the United States are parents living with children younger than age 18,” Reuters reports. The Cancer study was led by Dr. Kathryn Weaver of Wake Forest University. She and her colleagues analyzed data from 13,385 cancer survivors, which revealed that “an estimated 18 percent of newly diagnosed cancer survivors and 14 percent of all U.S. cancer survivors live with one or more of their minor children.” Which means, considering the entirety of the U.S. population, nearly 2 million cancer survivors are raising nearly three million children. Researchers believe that 562,000 kids “are living with a parent in the early phases of cancer treatment and recovery.”
Researchers hope this information will help doctors support patients with children in new ways. As for Elizabeth Edwards, she prefers not to think about what might happen at end of her life and instead chooses to focus on raising her children. Continue reading »
According to Grandparents.com, 70 million Americans are grandparents. And today’s grandparents are active, healthy and have money to spend on what many say is the single most important and satisfying thing in their lives: Grandchildren. But while some grandparents might spring for a family vacation in order to get some quality time with their children’s children, others are taking a different route. They are going back to school and taking the grand-kids with them. Continue reading »
You have no doubt heard that many schools have banned hugging and other public displays of affection among students. Administrators say that such touching is disruptive to the learning process and has the potential to lead to sexual harassment issues. But on the opposite end of the “no touching is good touching” school of thought are the administrators at the Parley Primary School in the UK. There, students are not only encouraged to get all touchy feely with one another, they are required to do it on a daily basis. Continue reading »
Over at Motherlode, Lisa Belkin asks whether its quality time or quantity time that counts when you’re tucking your little ones in at night.
A new study in the Journal of Family Psychology says mamas have to not only perform the bedtime rituals they’ve established with their kids, they have to love it. A mom must be “present”, by which they mean serene, warm and attentive, in order to soothe a little one to a good night’s sleep.
The researchers found that when mom was merely going through the motions, her precious little ones slept poorly. To really send them off to sweet dreams, she needed to be warm and loving and sensitive throughout the process.
Not an easy task when you’ve been caring for that little angel since dawn, and bedtime is the last task in a too-busy day. This is a subject near and dear to my heart: sleep has been the albatross around my neck for six years of parenting and counting.
Belkin mentions that not enough dads spent time with their kids at bedtime to be statistically significant, so the study focused only on moms.
I find that amusing, because “dad” is the answer to how we keep bedtime loving in my house. I care for the kids all day and all night, but there are two hours that I am off-duty: the hour they first wake up, and the hour they go to bed.
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