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by Evonne Lack posted in Mom Stories Towards the end of last night’s vice presidential debate, moderator Martha Raddatz suddenly threw a landmine on the table.   “We have two Catholic candidates, first time, on a stage such as this,” she said. “And I would like to ask you both to tell me what role [...]

by Gwen Dewar, Ph.D. posted in Mom Stories As Hiroshi Nittono and his colleagues note in a new paper for the journal PloS One, “cute things are popular because they produce positive feelings.” And I’ve often reflected that our own babies are every bit as cute as they need to be, given the negative feelings [...]

A study published today in the journal Pediatrics says that about half of kids with autism have eloped–wandered away from a safe place–at least once after the age of four. “I knew this was a problem, but I didn’t know just how significant a problem it was until I really began to look into it,” [...]

Brene Brown is an inspiration. A slip of paper with a few of her words on it is the only thing that adorns my writing desk. It says, “Courage: tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.” So when I saw she’d written a parenting manifesto, I couldn’t wait to read it [...]

by Betsy Shaw posted in Mom Stories California governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill banning sexual orientation change therapy for children under 18. According to CNN, the law prohibiting what some refer to as “gay cure therapy,” or “gay conversion therapy,” will go into effect on January 1st 2013. California is said ...

This week Suzanne Barston, the writer behind the much-admired blog Fearless Formula Feeder, launches her new book, BOTTLED UP: How the Way we Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why it Shouldn’t. I’ve long followed Barston’s blog, the tagline of which is, “standing up for formula feeders, without being a boob ...

There’s no end to the wives tales that promise everything from curing the common cold with chicken soup to losing weight with cabbage.  Many of these longstanding kitchen cures don’t work at all, but there are a few that actually deliver many if not all of the healing they tout! Here are 6 home remedies [...]

This week Suzanne Barston, the writer behind the much-admired blog Fearless Formula Feeder, launches her new book, BOTTLED UP: How the Way we Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why it Shouldn’t. I’ve long followed Barston’s blog, the tagline of which is, “standing up for formula feeders, without being a boob ...

A new study suggests that for as many as 1 in 13 women, the experience of childbirth is as traumatizing as being in combat. Childbirth as horrible as war? The bringing of life as horrible as the taking of it?  What is going on here???? McGill researchers in Canada found that a significant minority of [...]

So here’s the thing, heterosexual men really like love are obsessed with female breasts. Ladies, since the moment we started stuffing our bras in junior high we’ve known this, but what we didn’t really know was why. They’re boobs, mounds of fleshy flesh that require monthly self-checking, and proper support. What’s ...