Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Gender, Pop Culture on May 7th, 2013
A Facebook friend posted a link to the story about Lego’s cat-calling sticker. For anyone who missed it: Josh Stearns, a dad of two little boys posted photos of some really stupid LEGO stickers on his Tumblr account. One of them depicted a LEGO construction worker waving and shouting “HEY BABE!” He couldn’t understand why [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, Shopping, Things that make me go hmmm on Mar 26th, 2013
I don’t like Victoria’s Secret for three reasons — their bra straps are too thin, they make patrons provide driver’s licenses during returns even if they have their original receipts, and they objectify women. (Are those “angels” even real women???) This week, the store gave me a fourth reason — they are doing pseudo-marketing to [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, Research, Safety on Mar 26th, 2013
Does watching a lot of television make kids nutty and mean? The answer, according to a study published in the medical journal Archives of Diseases in Childhood, is yes. The report — Do television and electronic games predict children’s psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study — found that 5-year-old kids who [...]
Posted in Pissy mussings, Pop Culture on Dec 17th, 2012
I cried after Big Girl got out of the car today. The late bell rang as she walked through the doors. Little Girl asked if I was crying because her sister was going to get a late pass. I told her yes. What else could I say? I couldn’t tell her the truth that I [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Health, Pop Culture, Preventative medicine on Mar 26th, 2012
I will start this post by saying I have eaten chocolate every single day for at least a decade. Maybe longer, actually. Sometimes it’s a chocolate Vitamuffin. Sometimes it’s a small handful of organic semi-sweet chocolate morsels. Sometimes I go for a Trader Joe’s 100 calorie dark chocolate bar. No matter, I eat my chocolate [...]
Posted in babies, Health, parenting, Pop Culture, toddlers on Oct 19th, 2011
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued new policy statement — Media Use by Children Younger Than Two Years — about babies and toddlers watching TV. The organization’s take is simple: The AAP discourages media use for babies and kids under two Parents should avoid putting a TV in a child’s room There may [...]
Posted in Beauty, Health, Organic, Pop Culture on Oct 17th, 2011
Last week I started recording The Dr. Oz Show. I added him to my TiVo To Do list because of something I saw the week before. I was watching The Soup on E! and Joel McHale had a clip about genital age. Seems Dr. Oz has a quiz, which can be found on his website [...]
Posted in parenting, Pop Culture on Oct 5th, 2011
Sometimes, my job is pretty cool. This past Monday was one of those times because I got to preview the new Sony Pictures Animation film Arthur Christmas with my husband and my two girls. We got to see the movie at the Sony screening room, which was an experience in itself. (Big, cushy seating, super-loud [...]
Posted in Environment, Going Green, Pop Culture, Reduce, Reuse, Sustainable on Sep 13th, 2011
For a little kid, Little Girl has a big memory. She’s been talking about Halloween since July. “I wanna be ‘arina,” she told me. (Translation: She wanted to dress up like the Marina character on Fresh Beat Band.) “And Daddy will be Shout and you can be Kiki.” Hmmm. Okay, so right away I started [...]
Posted in parenting, Pop Culture, Research on Aug 12th, 2011
Dear Parent of the Kid in My Kid’s Camp: I dropped my daughter off this morning to your child singing away. What a beautiful voice she has, but holy crap, how does she know that song?!? Your little girl — what is she? Seven or eight? — was singing Rihanna’s S&M. What? You don’t remember [...]