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Did you hear about this? Some mom in Killeen, Texas, rented a billboard for her daughter’s prom. More specifically, Mom rented the billboard as part of a campaign to get her daughter votes for prom queen. The headline alone was enough to elicit eyerolls from sea to shining sea. The billboard went up on April [...]
A school in the area of Des Moines, Iowa, sent out an email to parents this week, warning them about a phenomenon known as 4/20. Because it’s new, apparently? And because parents in Iowa are so very sheltered from the world, that they’ve never heard of it before? I’m not sure if I’d be more [...]
Well, well, WELL. Despite their proclamations to never marry until everyone in the world (or maybe it was just America?) has that right, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are engaged, you guys. Over the weekend, the reformed bad-girl was spotted with the following rocks on her left ring finger and their publicist confirmed the news [...]
A brand-spankin’ new monitoring system is set to enter the UK market, and, depending on whom you ask, it will either enhance your newborn experience or MAKE YOUR LIFE A LIVING HELLHOLE OF ANXIETY. The system is called ExmoBaby, and was developed in the good ol’ U!S!A! by some people that have presumably never held [...]
This Sunday at 7pm/6pm central, Dateline NBC will be premeiring a new series called My Kid Would Never Do That. The show will place a variety of children in ostensibly dangerous situations with the help of actors and cameras, all in an effort to test their adherence to their parent’s caveats about interacting with strangers. [...]
Nothing brings opinions out of the rotted woodwork more than parenting advice, I’d wager. And within that category, I’d say breastfeeding, immunizations, and cloth-vs-disposable diapering are at the top. But co-sleeping seems to be creeping up into that top, as well, and in a pretty ridiculous (even terrifying) way. Have you heard of Vanessa Clark? [...]
Parents of a young boy from Florida are outraged about the handling of a recent class photo. As is customary in many schools, the children were all required to have signed permission slips in order to be photographed. However, there was some sort of break down in PAYING ATTENTION to that detail when the photographer [...]
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