Via: defendernetwork.com With the summer right around the corner it’s important to know and follow the necessary safety rules when dealing with summer time fun in the water to protect your little ones. “41% of children aged 7-17 years and 17.4% of adults in the United States, swim at least six times per year,” according […]
Via: hellobeautiful.com Late last week, my daughter and I were in the book store. The first section she always wants to go to first is the kids section. I happily accepted. While looking around for books that she may like it dawned on me that I really didn’t know the best books to purchase. Usually […]
Lauren and David Perkins, parents of the sextuplets nicknamed the “Perkins Pack” say they’re excited, exhausted and a little scared about raising their six bundles…
Parents of a three-week-old baby are in the custody of Webster police after they were arrested and charged with injury to a child. Police were…
After vocal parents spoke their minds and voiced their opinions and community members shared their thoughts on HISD’s proposal to change school start and end…
Dear Gay Best Friend, I need some understanding. My 17-year old son revealed to me that he is bisexual. I have always thought that he was gay. I think I understand gay and lesbian. Please inform me on bisexuality. I asked my son if he was using prophylactics and he said, “Yes, all the time […]
via: cnn.com (CNN) — Julie Perrault shudders when she remembers some of the dumb things she did when her kids were babies. The mother of four recalls in horror how she used to put her twin babies, David and Cate, in chairs and then put the chairs on top of the dining room table to […]
A new survey of African-American youth has found that almost half report considerable pressure to have sex. The results, which were derived from the answers of 1,500 youth ages 13-21, will be featured in the October issue of ESSENCE magazine, out on newsstands today. “I was elated that Essence, a secular Black magazine, choose to […]
*In the original article published by Focus on the Family, it was reported that young girls and boys are being oversexualized by simple images and sex fused media. American girls are increasingly being fed a steady diet of products and images that pressure them to be sexy. From clothing to cartoons, choreography to commercials, the […]
World Champion Boxer Laila Ali and husband Curtis Conway welcomed their second child Sydney Conway early Monday morning. She tweeted the good news about her new bundle of joy later Monday afternoon.
Parenting is a hard job. It’s the one job where a great deal of what you do you learn on the fly. It is however one that if you were given a firm solid base you have a ‘leg up on”. It is by far one of the greatest, yet most daunting things that one […]
Lenore Skenazy, who wrote Free-Range Kids, just put out her 2010 “Golden Helicopter Parenting Awards” list. Skenazy, if you’re not familiar with her work, Skenazy advocates for parents to stop being so scared all the time and let kids play the way they’ve always done. In 2008, for example, she was criticized for allowing her […]
