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Looking to lose some of the baby weight? Why not just eat baby food? Believe it or not, that’s what some women are doing. Personally, I think it’s a ridiculous idea. Any diet that requires grown women to eat pureed peas out of a tiny jar is seriously problematic.
According to The Kansas City Star, “dieters are going gaga over one of the most peculiar fad diets yet.” All you need to do is eat 14 jars of baby food a day and then a complete “grownup” dinner — assuming you haven’t already lost your appetite.
The fad took off after Marie Claire UK published an article in May about Jennifer Aniston’s recent 7-pound weight loss. Aniston’s trainer, Tracy Anderson, described her “baby food cleanse,” which incorporated easy-to-digest mini-meals such as smoothies, oatmeal and soups.
People took Anderson’s remark literally and soon everyone was asking Aniston about her baby food diet. Continue reading »
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s four-year-old daughter Shiloh likes to dress “like a boy.” She wears her hair short and favors hoodie sweatshirts and track suits. Do you have a problem with that?
Angelina doesn’t. In fact, she recently said that she finds her daughter’s wardrobe “fascinating.”
While promoting her new film ”Salt,” the actress told Reuters:
“I would never be the kind of parent to force somebody to be something they are not. I think that is just bad parenting… Children should be allowed to express themselves in whatever way they wish without anybody judging them because it is an important part of their growth. Society always has something to learn when it comes to the way we judge each other, label each other. We have far to go.” Continue reading »
I don’t force my kids to eat anything they don’t like. I figure it’s my job to expose them to new foods and it’s up to them to decide what to eat. Still, I can’t help but be pleased that they will happily devour berries and snack on edamame. I’m even more pleased now that I’ve read Parenting Magazine’s 10 Nutrition Powerhouses for Kids, which features blueberries and soy such as edamame.
Parenting.com asked dietician Rachel Beller, mom of four and an expert in eating for disease prevention, for her “power food” recommendations. Here are her top ten: Continue reading »
Laura M. Holson at The New York Times recently wrote about how some of Miley Cyrus’s young fans are disenchanted by the young star and her new sexy persona. Some of the young girls who once worshipped Miley have moved on to new idols such as singer Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez from “Wizards of Waverly Place,” and Miranda Cosgrove, the star of iCarly.
In June, when Miley released her first “post-adolescent athem” “Can’t Be Tamed,” the sexy video that accompanied the album’s release sent a clear message that she didn’t want to be seen as Hannah Montana anymore.
“It was weird,” 11-year-old Perry Hamm, a once adoring Hannah Montana fan, said of Ms. Cyrus’s sexy outfit, which included black ribbon corset. “I feel like she acts 25. She looks so old. She is too old for herself.” Continue reading »
New research in Names: A Journal of Onomastics has found that people’s names can influence the type of career they take, according to Science Daily.
People with the surname “Doctor” were more likely to be doctors than lawyers, and those with the last name “Lawyer” were more likely to be lawyers, according to the studies by Professor Ernest Abel of Wayne State University.
But, really, how many people have the last name “Doctor” or “Lawyer?” Continue reading »
At eight and five years of age, my daughters are solid sleepers. They almost never fuss when it’s time to go to bed and they rarely wake during the night.
But they weren’t always good sleepers. In fact, my older daughter went through a long, difficult period of colic (for lack of a better word) from around 2 weeks to 5 months during which it took us hours to get her to sleep at night.
On most nights, my husband snuggled her into the Baby Bjorn and wandered the streets of Manhattan’s East Village until she finally fell asleep. And then, once we finally settled her into her crib, she’d wake up 45 minutes later, seemingly just to torture my husband and I some more. I was hormonal and exhausted and willing to try almost anything to get her to sleep. And yet we never considered hiring a sleep consultant.
When my husband and I were trying to settle on a name for our first child, we both liked Maya. But a close friend of mine had just named her daughter Maya, so we decided against it. We felt that Maya had already been taken as a baby name.
But how would I have felt if my friend had known that I loved the name Maya and she took it first?
Yesterday, ParentDish’s “The Name Lady” fielded a question from an irate mom-to-be who is annoyed that a friend used her baby name for their new puppy.
Apparently, the woman planned to name her daughter after her late grandmother Annabelle and her friend named her puppy Bella. She’s irked that “people are taking dog names from baby books.” Continue reading »
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