Supernanny Rules

July 10th, 2008

Glorifying Teen Pregnancy?

 
 We heard about Jamie Lynn Spears and gasped in shock, as we bid adieu to “Zoey 101.” We saw the headlines for the new NBC reality show “Baby Borrowers” and wondered who the heck would allow a snot nosed teenager to borrow their baby. We caught wind of some odd teen pregnancy pact and rolled our eyes […]

By kadi -- 11 comments

June 9th, 2008

Whatever Happened To Clothed Courting?

“Geez…what next?” This was my first thought as I read the headline on MSNBC: “Teens sending nude photos via cell phones.” Then I read the article. One of the sentences written in the article, was even more shocking than the fact that this is happening. “Many of these pictures are falling into the wrong hands…” (Stephanie […]

By kadi -- 4 comments

June 4th, 2008

Another “Why didn’t I think of that?” Moment

 
It boils my blood to read stories like this one, about the two women from Calgary, Canada. I’m not pissed because they are successfully running a baby prep business for expecting parents. No, I’m really very happy for them. I’m only kicking myself for not doing it before they did. I opened a blog, awhile […]

By kadi -- 4 comments

May 28th, 2008

Keep It Up, By Keeping It Off!

 
It seems that the continually rising number of children who are considered obese, has hit a peak and is at a stand still. Will this cessation in the increase hold, or will people revert back to their old ways? Summer is here and families will be vacationing. Will the break prove detrimental to the ability to keep […]

By kadi -- 8 comments

May 18th, 2008

Missing Something?

I am so glad to know that I’m not the only parent who has accidentally left a kid somewhere. I admit to having backed out of my driveway and realized that the baby was still asleep in his crib. Hey, we have a lot of people to get into the car! We now do a […]

By kadi -- 7 comments

April 9th, 2008

If this was my child…

I cannot find the words to express how utterly sickened I was at hearing the story of Victoria Lindsay. I could not even watch more than a few seconds of the video footage of the beating delivered by six fellow cheerleaders. It was brutality at its worst. My husband and I immediately told our kids that […]

By kadi -- 1 comment

April 2nd, 2008

Excuse Me Miss, May I Borrow Your Womb?

Newsweek has a great article on surrogacy and the women who literally give birth to babies who are not theirs. I find this incredibly self sacrificial and amazing. I have always known that if one of my sisters couldn’t carry a baby, I would do it for them. My husband would never agree on my stance, […]

By kadi -- 4 comments

January 25th, 2008

Addressing The Dress Issue

What would you do if your son wanted to wear a pink dress to school? Cookie magazine featured an article in its January issue, that illustrated one mom’s struggle to allow her son the freedom of wearing a dress to school. The mom, Sarah, decided that her son’s freedom of expression was far more important that […]

By kadi -- 18 comments

November 5th, 2007

True Mom Confessions

Since starting in April, True Mom Confessions has seen more than 100,000 women contribute confessions, from one-line gripes about in-laws, to intimate accounts of diminished sex lives.
“It turns out we’re all riddled with guilt and ambivalence and regret,” one mother says. “We’ve bottled this stuff up for too long. Now it’s time to unload.”
God knows […]

By Gayla -- 2 comments

November 2nd, 2007

Parenting by proxy

Potty training. Sleepless nights. Temper tantrums. Some of these more challenging moments of parenthood now are being outsourced.

And I’m not even joking!
I read a quote recently that came from Elizabeth of Career and Kids’ mother — “Why have children if you’re going to let someone else raise them?”
I understand there is a need for hiring […]

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