Tot Gets Tat: Mom Gets Jailtime?


Updated 01/26/12 7:16 PM · Posted by · 3 comments

10 Year Old Gets Tattoo

Tats on tots? Tattoos are a divisive aesthetic on adults; the thought of a child actually getting their sweet lil skin permanently inked is a pretty unpleasant idea, to say the least. Yet that's exactly what 10-year-old Gaquan Napier did with the full support of his mother Chuntera. According to the law in Georgia, where the family lives, it's illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to get Read more

Hold It! That's What One Teacher Is Telling Students


Updated 01/21/12 11:29 AM · Posted by · 2 comments

NYC Teacher Limits Students' Bathroom Time

How long can your child hold it? If she's in Stephanie Warner's class at a Brooklyn elementary school, let's hope she can hold it for a while! The fifth-grade teacher has enacted a new policy to keep kids sitting at their desks and out of the bathroom. At the start of each week, the teacher hands out three bathroom passes to each student in the class. The kids then have three windows throughout Read more

Fighting Words from Anderson Cooper: Are Stay-at-Home Moms Lazy?


Updated 01/24/12 6:08 AM · Posted by · 4 comments

Anderson Cooper Show Are Stay-at-Home Moms Lazy

Oh, Anderson. Generally a bastion of solid journalism and insightful commentary, Anderson Cooper seems to have taken a cue from the talk show circuit with one of his recent shows, pitting stay-at-home moms against their work-outside-the-home counterparts. The show's clearly-for-ratings title — "Are Stay-at-Home Moms Lazy?" — is drawn from the outburst of one of the guest moms, who declares Read more

New Hope For Infertile Men as Scientists Grow Sperm Outside Body


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Male Infertility News

Go sperm! We tend to think of infertility mainly as an affliction of the fairer sex, but this is far from the truth: the last 50 years have seen an increase in the problem of male infertility coinciding with a huge decrease in reported sperm counts. A major breakthrough was made recently as German and Israeli scientists grew mouse sperm outside of the body using just a few cells retrieved from Read more

Check Your Library Book Due Dates or Risk a Visit From the Police


Updated 01/06/12 10:38 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Police Visit Child Who Didn't Return Library Books

With all that parents have on their minds, it's no wonder that something eventually falls through the cracks. If you live near Boston, just hope that it's not past-due library books that slip off your to-do list. According to a mother in Charlton, a few months after she failed to return two of her 5-year-old daughter's library books, she received a surprise knock on the door — from a police Read more

Where Is He or She Now? An Update on the Great Genderless Baby "Storm" of 2011


Updated 12/31/11 9:47 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

Update on the Genderless Baby

Boy or a girl? Generally one of the first questions parents answer about their lil ones, it's the one that Toronto parents Kathy Witterick and David Stocker opted to skip completely when their baby was born nearly one year ago, on New Year's Day. Named Storm, an appropriate moniker for a child that was the subject of more than a little controversy, the baby's parents publicly announced that they Read more

Chelsea Clinton Kicks Off a More Public Life on TV


Updated 02/06/12 9:34 PM · Posted by · 7 comments

Chelsea Clinton NBC News

Chelsea Clinton sat down with Brian Williams on his nightly Rock Center show to explain why she's leaving behind her "deliberately private life" for a journalism career. But before she got personal last night, Chelsea reported on former-educator Annette Dove, who has committed her life to helping impoverished children in Pine Bluff, Arkansas with hot food, tutoring, and someone to talk to. Read more

Procreate For Better Health?


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Does Having Children Improve Health?

Forget about apples; maybe it's really a baby a day that keeps the doctor away! Two recent studies point to the health benefits of having children, and the first study, conducted at the University of California, San Diego, goes so far as to say that the more the merrier! Researchers followed 1,300 women from California and concluded that women who experience at least four pregnancies are less Read more

Pizza Is a Vegetable? Congress's Latest Bill Seems to Think So!


Updated 11/17/11 4:23 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

Pizza Considered Vegetable by Congress

Somebody call Jamie Oliver, because US legislators need a quick lesson in nutrition. Earlier this year, the Department of Agriculture introduced new school meal nutrition standards created in the wake of our childhood obesity epidemic. Among the lunch-line changes were new standards limiting the use of potatoes and sodium and increasing the use of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in the Read more