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German scientists have come up with a formula to get touch-deprived moms the kind of action they really want.
The makers promise that just a puff or two of the stuff will make even the most insensitive oaf skootch in for a snuggle. (Actually, they say “a puff or two of the ‘cuddle chemical’ will make even the most masculine of men as sensitive as a woman,” but, as a not-so-cuddly woman, I didn’t want to perpetuate that inanity. Forgive me.) Continue reading »
New Scientist has sent one of their reporters, who happens to be pregnant, to do a little investigative research on the power of old wives tales to predict who’s inside that bump.
“Women’s Intuition” won the day. While all the other tales she investigated turned up duds, Linda Geddes reports that she’s expecting a daughter. An ultrasound confirmed the feeling she’s had for weeks that her baby would be a girl.
She’s not relying on her own anecdotal experience alone, though. There’s research that shows over three quarters of women can accurately guess the sex of their baby.
Kids grow up — it’s a fact of life. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, what with college and starting a career and grandkids and all. But along the way, there are going to be rough spots and the biggest of these, for parents, at least, may very well be puberty. One way to handle the issue is to ignore it, of course, leaving your child’s education up to the schools and the schoolyard, but that’s generally not considered ideal. Talking to one’s children about sex, however, has got to be pretty high up there on the list of Things Parents Don’t Want To Do.
38-year-old Debra Ayala Tapia is pregnant with a fourth child, which normally would be cause to celebrate. Problem is, Debra just got out of prison on $100,000 bail and the baby’s father is a 15-year-old neighbor boy. Oh yeah, she’s also married. Continue reading »
So your kid has started blogging and you’re terrified you’re going to be reading about their drinking, drug use, and sexual escapades, right? Well, it turns out that’s probably not going to be the case. At least, that’s what researchers at Ohio State University found in a study of 100 teen bloggers from around the country.
You’d think the only thing that feminists and libertarians could possibly agree on with the Sarah Palins of the world is the color of milk. Turns out there may be a new wave of feminism that embraces at least one socially conservative value: the anti-raunch movement.
Chances are, that by the time your kids hit their teens, they’ll have cell phones burning holes in their hot little pockets. Cell phones with cameras. Some of them will almost certainly use those cameras to take nude or sexually explicit photos of themselves, their girlfriends, or that guy on the back of the bus that dared them to do it.
Then a few will use the magic of modern cellular networks to forward those pictures to their crushes, their friends, or just maybe their entire English class.
And unless current laws change, they’ll be creating and trafficking in child pornography when they do it. Those are federal felony charges that can send kids to prison, and create criminal records that will haunt them for life.
How can you persuade your kids not to sexts? Anne Collier talks to Lenore Skenazy and the crew at Free Range Kids about sexting, kiddie porn, and what parents can do.
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