Just when you thought the world’s events couldn’t get any stranger, Australian news outlets are reporting several incidents that have landed one woman, whose name has not been released and is only known as the “Poo Bomber,” in hot water. According to The Daily Telegraph and Yahoo News, the 42-year-old Australian woman allegedly visits stores,…
What a FitBit Would Track if Moms Designed It
By Jamie Sumner of The Mom Gene I will never own a FitBit. It might destroy me. I have just enough OCD to view each day as an extension of the one before—a staircase descending to self-improvement hell. My nature runs contrary to continual data. After a month, I’d be Forrest Gump-ing it—running across country…
Tricks of the (Special Needs) Trade
By Jamie Sumner of The Mom Gene Last week I collectively spent three hours on the phone with the office of my son’s geneticist. It was over the space of four phone calls with an average hold time of twenty minutes each. This gave me plenty of time to think. It was a snafu on…
Is Social Media Behind the Spike in Child Suicide? Teens and The Blue Whale Challenge
By Dr. Tracy Bennett of Get Kids Internet Safe Reports of child and teen suicides have flooded the news recently. Too often social media and cyberbullying plays a role. The Blue Whale Challenge is the latest fad kids are talking about. Should parents worry? Suicide risk According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
My Kids Take Melatonin: Don’t Judge Me
By Serendipity Indigo My children take melatonin. Every. Single. Night. We refer to their nightly doses as their “meds.” As in, “Are you ready to brush your teeth, or do you still need your meds?” Please know, I’ve consulted their pediatrician. What she disapproves of is calling a supplement “medication.” Otherwise, her only input is…
I Can’t Feel My Vagina, But It’s Not What You Think
By Kristin McCarthy of Four Princesses and the Cheese I’ve been lobbing a few miles on the treadmill a few days a week and I don’t think I have lost a single pound. It’s probably due to the fact that when I start to feel the burn, I slow down because I suck at exercise….
Eighteen Lies. No Sex. No Videotape.
By Linda DeMers Hummel Call them fibs. Call them a bunch of bad advice. Call them wishful thinking. Here are 18 lies that I once believed. 1955: “Little girls can’t do that. Only boys.” 1965: “The Dave Clark Five are better than the Beatles.” 1968: “Relax. No one’s going to vote for Nixon.” 1971: “Come on….
Chester Bennington’s Death—And the Conversation We Should Be Having
I read the headline with shock and disbelief: dead? Chester Bennington — the lead singer of Linkin Park — was dead? He couldn’t be. I mean, he is (well, he was) the voice of my childhood. It was Linkin Park and Bennington which carried me through the long, angst-ridden days of adolescence, and the lonely, anxiety-ridden nights. But TMZ…
My Daughter Is a Liar
By Emily James of emilysarahjames.wordpress.com My 4-year-old is a liar. She tells me things like, “I don’t need to go to the bathroom,” and, “I already blew my nose.” The way she curls her lip, puts her chin down and looks off to the side gives it away, so I’m still safe. But just as…
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