May
15
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NEW YORK — Shocking or no big deal? A woman breastfeeding her 3-year-old son is the cover photo of this week’s Time magazine for a story on “attachment parenting,” and reactions ranged from applause to cringing to shrugs.
The photo showed Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who says her mother breastfed her until she was 6 years old. She told the magazine in an interview that she’s given up reasoning with strangers who see her son nursing and threaten “to call social services on me or that it’s child molestation.”
“People have to realize this is biologically normal,” she said, adding, “The more people see it, the more it’ll become normal in our culture. That’s what I’m hoping. I want people to see...
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May
15
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NEW YORK — Brand-new mother Jessica Simpson is launching a line of clothing for moms-to-be.
With it all still fresh in her mind, the 31-year-old singer-actress, who gave birth to daughter Maxwell Drew Johnson on May 1, announced Monday a partnership between Camuto Group, the master licensee behind her label, and retailer Destination Maternity.
The clothes, with a hint of a 1970s vibe, will be in stores in the fall. She said she’ll aim for clothes “flattering to your baby bump.”
Simpson famously tweeted while pregnant that she dreamed she went to the hospital wearing an animal-print kaftan.
This collection builds on her already strong fashion portfolio, with 24 product categories, including clothes, jewelry, shoes and beauty products....
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May
14
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ANDREW DUFFELMEYER, Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey is looking at tightening restrictions on the use of tanning beds by young people under a bill that would bar anyone under 18 from doing so.
The Assembly’s Women and Children Committee passed the measure Monday by a 5-0 vote, though two members abstained. It now heads to the full Assembly for consideration, but it’s not known when a vote will be held.
The bill would expand a 2006 state law that bans tanning bed use by anyone under 14, and requires written parental consent for those ages 14 to 17. The bill would allow for spray or sunless tanning for children aged 14 to 17 with parental consent.
The issue has seen renewed interest after a Nutley woman was accused this month...
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May
14
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By The Associated Press
The top 20 baby names of 2011.
Girls
- Sophia
- Isabella
- Emma
- Olivia
- Ava
- Emily
- Abigail
- Madison
- Mia
- Chloe
- Elizabeth
- Ella
- Addison
- Natalie
- Lily
- Grace
- Samantha
- Avery
- Sofia
- Aubrey
Boys
- Jacob
- Mason
- William
- Jayden
- Noah
- Michael
- Ethan
- Alexander
- Aiden
- Daniel
- Anthony
- Matthew
- Elijah
- Joshua
- Liam
- Andrew
- James
- David
- Benjamin
- Logan
...
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May
13
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By Cynthia Ramnarace, TheBump.com
Sure, becoming a mom is pretty amazing. And while doing the deed might be the furthest thing from your mind at the moment (those boobs belong to someone else right now!), we promise you’ll want to have sex again someday. So here are nine postpartum birth control methods that will help you get back in the sack without conceiving another baby before you’re ready. Talk to your doctor about what method is best for you.
The Pill
The birth control pill, which uses hormones to halt ovulation, is fine to use once you’re green-lighted for sex, usually at your six-week postpartum checkup. It’s considered 99-percent effective when taken correctly. If you’re breastfeeding, your ob-gyn...
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May
12
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By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sophia is the new most popular baby name for girls, while Jacob is the top name for boys for the 13th straight year in a new list of popular baby names heavily influenced by religion and reality TV.
Isabella, which had been the top girl’s name for two years, dropped to second place in 2011, according to the list released Monday by the Social Security Administration. Emma, Olivia and Ava rounded out the top five.
Mason jumped 10 spots to become the second most popular name for newborn boys last year, knocking Michael out of the top five for the first time in 63 years. Kourtney Kardashian, the reality TV star, gave birth to Mason in December 2009 following a heavily publicized...
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May
11
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By Priscilla Dunstan, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
I wrote last week about the effect your mothers’ dominate sense can have on their parenting style, and with the rush of media including the controversial breastfeeding cover on Time magazine, we can be always wondering if we are lacking as a parent. What is often left out of these articles is that children are just as different as mothers and sometimes personalities clash. This is especially true if you have what I call a mismatch — when you differ in sensory mode from your child.
Certain mismatches are more bothersome than others. For example, if you are visual and you child is tactile, you’re likely to get upset by their tendency to create a mess. If your dominant sense is taste and smell, and...
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May
11
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Junk Food’s collaboration with Gap Kids is going to make your superhero-obsessed child so happy. The companies are launching a super adorable “Superhero” collection with all the must-haves for summer– beach towels, tanks, board shorts, flip flops, backpacks and more. Known for their pop culture-referencing clothing, Junk Food is a favorite among celebrity kids, including Leni Klum and the Jolie-Pitts.
This Junk Food superhero towel cape is great for poolside this summer. The cape is made of soft knit and has a hood and a Batman or Superman logo patch on the back. It is $39.95 at http://www.gap.com.
The Junk Food superhero ankle-strap flip flops are $19.95 and come with old-school Spiderman, Captain...
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May
10
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LUCAS L. JOHNSON II, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Educators exasperated by the need for greater parent involvement have persuaded Tennessee lawmakers to sign off on a novel bit of arm-twisting: Asking parents to grade themselves on report cards.
Another Tennessee measure signed into law recently will create parent contracts that give them step-by-step guidelines for pitching in. The report card bill — which would initially apply to two struggling schools — passed the Legislature, and the governor has said he is likely to sign it. Participation in the programs is voluntary.
Only a few states have passed laws creating evaluations or contracts that put helping with homework or attending teacher conferences into writing. Tennessee is the only one...
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May
10
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MONICA JOSEPH, Goshen News
GOSHEN, Ind. — The ladies of the Graber family never intended to publish a cookbook for the public. They certainly never expected to end up on a book tour in New York doing 13 interviews with 13 television stations. But visit Amazon.com and type in “The Daily Feast” and there it is — a richly colorful 252-page book highlighting a lifetime of gathering to enjoy food and family.
The Graber family — Esther, the matriarch, her five daughters and one daughter-in-law — are creators of “The Daily Feast Everyday Meals we Love to Share,” which was published in April by Good Books, the company that publishes the popular “Fix-It and Forget-It” cookbooks.
The family members involved are Ellen Rose...
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