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You might have heard about it: A mother recently (and rightfully) lost her shit on her daughter’s Snapchat, warning her daughter and her daughter’s friends that Mama don’t play like that, and it went viral. Laugh all you want, people, but this mom’s concerns about her 16-year-old daughter and her quite-a-bit-older boyfriend are completely valid […]
It’s totally natural for parents to feel pressure to make the holiday season feel magical. After all, you don’t want to disappoint little boys and girls with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads! Even parents with newborn babies can feel overwhelmed — and their kiddos don’t know anything about Christmas yet. New mom […]
I’m not a mother yet, but as a nearly 30 non-mom, I’m at the age when my social media feed is a steady stream of baby announcements, gender reveals and growing family photos. I’m often asked questions about my own family plans. “Are you guys thinking about kids yet?” And Google certainly seems to think […]
FRIDAY, Oct. 26, 2018 — Paid leave for new mothers may increase breastfeeding rates, but mainly among women with higher incomes, a new study contends. The United States is the only developed country that does not offer paid leave to new parents on a national level. But four states now offer paid leave, and the […]
THURSDAY, Oct. 25, 2018 — Young children are more likely to be awakened by a smoke alarm that uses their mother’s voice than one with a typical high-pitched alarm, a new study finds. The mother’s voice alarm also resulted in much quicker escape times. “Children are remarkably resistant to awakening by sound when asleep,” explained […]
(HealthDay)—American women are having fewer children, and they’re having them later in life, a new government report shows. “Overall, we saw continuing decreasing trends in total fertility,” said report author Danielle Ely, a health statistician at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which is part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. […]
Good luck getting a peek at Mindy Kaling’s daughter, Katherine Swati. The baby is now 9 months old, and Kaling has managed to keep her (and Katherine’s baby daddy, damn it!) hidden from the world at large. Impressive. But fortunately for Kaling lovers (like us), she talks about motherhood — and all the weirdness that […]
As a New Yorker by birth and a Nashvillian by choice, I’ll be the first to tell you: You need to travel to Tennessee stat to experience all that Music City has to offer — you know, before the prices really start to rival NYC’s (*cringe*). But please, don’t just see Nashville. Because if you think Tennessee is […]
Actor, director and entrepreneur Lake Bell is just fine with California’s Jan. 1 legalization of marijuana. In fact, Bell will opt for weed over wine any evening after a hard day on the set. “As a parent I think pot’s almost better than a glass of wine,” Bell told MedMen’s Ember magazine. (Ember is a […]
News that the United States refused to sign — and also reportedly aggressively pressured other countries to back down on — a United Nations-affiliated resolution in support of breastfeeding is making shockwaves across the globe. In a time when “breast is best” and "fed is best" discourses seem to be warring, the news that the […]