Little girls go nuts for this guy!

It’s perfectly natural for young girls to get all giddy over teen heartthrobs. In fact, experts say it’s even healthy.

But while girls have been swooning over teen heartthrobs for generations, there is something very different about what’s happening these days.  Where I was about 12-years-old before I declared my undying love for Donny Osmond, girls today seem to catch the celebrity love bug at a much younger age.  6-year-olds are swooning over the Jonas Brothers and 8-year-olds are falling victim to Justin Bieber’s boyish charms.

Because most of us were slightly more mature when we developed our first celebrity crush, watching our very young daughters get goofy over famous boys can be a little disconcerting.  But is it something something we should be worried about?

Child psychologist John Carosso agrees that girls are developing celebrity crushes at ever younger ages.  But he believes there’s nothing to worry about as long as the infatuation doesn’t cross the line into obsession. Continue reading »

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There’s been a lot of talk in the last week about the notion of the “replacement child,” in response to John Travolta and Kelly Preston announcing they’re expecting just a year after their son Jett’s tragic death.  ABC News acknowledges that the phrase “replacement child” is “a cruel term,” and CNN takes a more tactful approach, titling their piece, Conceiving after loss: ‘You can never replace a child’.  And yet both articles seem to insinuate that Travolta and Preston may be having a replacement child.  The Daily Mail, in a headline that can only be described as inflammatory, even goes so far as to claim that the couple believe their unborn child might be a reincarnation of Jett.

Psychiatry professor Katherine Shear of Columbia University says, “When a child dies, many parents have a “natural urge” to have another.”  That makes sense.  Babies, in addition to being wonderfully lovable little creatures, represent hope.  Therese Rando, author of the book How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies, says, “In Western culture, all feelings of hope and meaning and expectations are projected on to the child.”  But that doesn’t automatically imply that people who’ve lost a child have subsequent children as an act of selfish comfort. Continue reading »

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Photo courtesy BieberFever.com.

Justin Bieber is everywhere, and if you have a tween girl in your life, chances are she’s caught the Bieber Fever sweeping the nation.  People magazine says he’s the biggest pop star in the country, and given that even Oprah is a fan – he appeared on her show yesterday – I’d say they’re correct.

Bieber’s rags to riches story is as charming as he is.  He was raised in public housing in Stratford, ON, home of the famous Stratford Festival celebrating Shakespeare and other classic playwrights.  (I wonder how soon before they’re forced to perform, “Baby: The Justin Bieber Story” in rep with A Doll’s House.)

“Justin Bieber” has been a trending topic on Twitter for months, and his 2,429,843 followers are faithful fans.  Despite his fast and furious rise to the top, he still performs intimate concerts in cities like Buffalo, NY, where he recently serenaded 8oo students from Edward Town Middle School for collecting $16,927 - in pennies – for charity.  And in his interview with adorably precocious 11-year-old Oprah correspondent Jordan, he admits being scared of the dark.

So is there anything not to love about Justin Bieber?  Sure, if you find him cloyingly annoying – like many adults without children do - or if your kid has played Baby so many times you hear its phantom strains in your ear as you lay awake at night.  If your child has a serious case of Bieber Fever and you need to intervene, check out our (totally not serious) instructional video after the jump. Continue reading »

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It’s Monday and you’re due for your Daily Crazy. If fresh, hot nuts are what you desire, look no further that this profoundly uncomfortable interview with Nadya Suleman (the artist continually known as Octomom). Poor Suleman is all over the place and not a little bit unsettling, prompting Joy Behar to ask, “Are you on something?” Continue reading »

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Two years ago, the world (and Oprah) was introduced to Thomas Beatie, the former woman who became the first known transgendered man to give birth. Now Mr. Beatie and wife Nancy have a third bun in the oven.

In case you were wondering why wife Nancy hasn’t taken a turn at the mothering post, she is unable to have children due to hysterectomy.

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Single mom, fertilization enthusiast, would-be reality show star-you can add one more job to Nadya Suleman’s (Octomom) resume: swimsuit model.

Maybe that doesn’t seem out of the ordinary to you, maybe you see swimsuit modeling a natural next step to a controversial single mother of 37 kids. But maybe this will surprise you; she says she got back into swimsuit shape with no help at all. As in, no plastic surgery.

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