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Warm weather is just around the corner and that can only mean one thing: Summer clothes! For a baby, keeping cool in the summer often involves wearing just a diaper. But that doesn’t mean your baby has to go around sporting a plain white butt. No, you can keep baby cool and stylish with Huggies new Little Movers Jeans Diapers!
These faux denim baby pants have been available in other countries since 2007, but have just now come on the market here. Designed to help baby “stay trendy while keeping dry,” they come in sizes 3 to 5 and, other than the awesome denim print, are exactly like regular Huggies Little Movers. Continue reading »
A hospital in L.A. has been taken to task for offering salon services including “nail and eyebrow” treatments in it’s neonatal intensive care ward. The allegations of “waxing services of any kind” were just false, the county investigators found.
Staffers were giving each other the beauty treatments in their break rooms, and only once in awhile did the salon activities spill over into the ward itself, the report finds.
Just so you know I’m not out to win any culture war between urban parents and their counterparts who don’t have kids — I’d prefer a truce, a mutual understanding — I’ll pass along a few links that may be of use to parents who take their kids to restaurants (and bars).
Francis Lam at Salon interviews food critic Robert Sietsema (who is very much in favor of eating out with (certain) kids) and directs us to Fat City’s Jonathan Bender who give us a thorough round-up and includes these ground rules, which he summarizes thusly: think of pool rules. Continue reading »
It’s easy to feel helpless when you’re just one person standing at the foot of a behemoth problem, but as Tracy Clark-Flory reported yesterday, Salon contributor Lynn Harris brought Gandhi’s, “Be the change you wish to see in the world” mantra to life by exposing the horrors of female genital mutilation happening on US soil. Her in-depth coverage of the subject inspired representatives Joseph Crowley (D-NY) and Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) to introduce anti-FGM legislation referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary on Monday.
According to Clark-Flory’s piece, the Girls Protection Act “would make it a federal crime to transport a minor outside the United States for the purpose of female genital mutilation.” Harris’s original reporting on the subject concluded that while female genital mutilation has “been outlawed by U.S. federal law since 1996 and is also illegal in 17 states — its practice by immigrant families here is, by all anecdotal reports, only increasing.” Continue reading »
Almost a quarter of kids today are being raised by single parents. Most custodial parents are women, but joint custody is becoming more and more common. “Kids need both parents,” experts are quick to assert. It’s what seems fair, in a world where fathers are increasingly expected to equally share parenting within a marriage, and mothers are more likely to work.
It seems fair, but is it right? Behind all those numbers and theories are the wrenching realities of kids with two homes. Anne Trubek explored her own shared custody situation in Salon this week. As a stepmother and a child of divorce, her story went straight to my heart. Continue reading »
The First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign, which focuses on nutrition and exercise education, and access to good, affordable food, is a start to improving all children’s lives — not just the fat ones. Her program promises to institutionalize what some parents, educators and community activists have been trying to do for years, which is offer something besides crap to kids and people with limited resources.
Having more and nutritious options, though, won’t be enough, especially when baby carrots and ranch have to compete with super sugary, super salty, super fatty processed foods that feature a child’s favorite cartoon character, TV show or sports franchise. Cinderella — that small-boned beauty — knows the key to true hapiness is a bag of chewy “fruit” snacks.
If you’re sick of steering the kids away from cereals featuring SpongeBob or Barbie or Transformers, get ready to hunker down for more. Continue reading »
A discipline method popular among conservative Christian homeschoolers is coming under fire after the death of a 7-year-old girl from injuries sustained from beatings. Her parents stand charged with her murder, and are also facing torture and abuse charges for injuries incurred by two of their nine children.
Police said that Lydia Schatz’s beatings were so numerous and severe that her internal organs may have been no longer able to function.
Lydia’s parents were aherents to the teaching of conservative Christian writers Michael and Debi Pearl, Continue reading »
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