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Some Ads in Parenting Magazines Show Unsafe Practices

Flip through a parenting magazine while you are in line at the grocery store, or while waiting for your child to see the doctor. The photos and images your eyes skim over might actually be showing children who are doing unsafe things. These pretty photos in the advertisements may give parents the wrong idea when it comes to child safety. Parenting magazines, of course, are intended to be read by parents. These magazines offer advice on everything from nutrition and health issues, to how to cope when your child is having a public “meltdown”. One would reasonably assume that the … Continue reading →

Parenting Advice Challenges

You may think you have the absolute best parenting advice EVER to share with every mom and dad on the planet, but the fact is if said mother or father didn’t ask for your tips, it’s highly unlikely he or she is going to follow them. Unsolicited advice is invaluable advice. If you want to share your tried and true parenting techniques with other moms and dads, wait until you are asked.  Parents are more apt to follow advice if they are seeking it rather than having it forced down their throats.  What’s more, it’s important to remember that a … Continue reading →

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Rated: PG Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is a movie that the whole family will enjoy. It is filled with just enough peril and danger to make it exciting yet it teaches a lesson in taking care of your family no matter how differently your family may be or who your family consists of. The main characters in this movie were wooly mammoth husband and wife, Manny and Ellie, squirrels Scrat and love interest/nut competitor, Scratte, possums Crash and Eddie, weasel Buck, Sid the sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger. There is also Rudy, the feared dinosaur of gigantic … Continue reading →

Parents Versus the Ice Cream Man

He’s the Pied Piper of preteens, toddlers and just about every other youngster with a sweet tooth, but the ice cream man is getting an unusually chilly reception from parents in New York City. Some moms and dads in the Big Apple are waging a war against guys who hock frozen treats from the back of their freezers on wheels. According to reports, parents are irate that the city has allowed ice cream truck owners the right to park next to their children’s schools, favorite parks and other kid-packed neighborhood attractions. As one mom puts it: “They’ve got a trapped … Continue reading →

Sins of the Father—Mel Gibson Has a Meltdown

It looks as though Mel Gibson may have a conscience after all. At least part of one, anyway. And it’s beginning to bother him. A lot. The father of seven (soon to be eight) reportedly went “ballistic” in church last Sunday. In what is being described as a “crazed rant,” the actor apparently lit into parishioners while pacing back and forth on the altar of Holy Family Chapel in Agoura Hills, California. I suppose having a meltdown on the altar (a place reserved exclusively for priests and altar servers) is one of the perks of building your own (purported) Catholic … Continue reading →

MTV’s Video Music Awards 2008

The Video Music Awards (VMAs) are over for another year and they were surprisingly…ordinary. There were no meltdowns, no hijinks, none of the stuff I usually tune in for! There was a rant by host Russell Brand (yeah, I know – who?), but I will get to that in a minute. (Public Domain photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer 4 Seth Rossman) The show was held last night at the Paramount Studios and its lots in Los Angeles. After last year’s oddly unpolished opening performance, many people probably tuned in to see how Britney Spears would do this … Continue reading →

What Have I Done to My Marriage? – Part Two, The Meltdown

In a previous article I wrote about some behind-the-scenes drama I’ve been enduring with the big changes in my marriage. Drama that could have threatened it even this early on in our new arrangement–-if I’d let it. I’ll get to the part about the salvation strategies I employed in another article, but first I’ll give you an idea of why I needed to call on them at all. Honeymoon’s Over Today marks a week and a half since my mom and I returned home. (Well, to my existing home and what is becoming her new one.) The first few days … Continue reading →

Fed-Ex’s Ex’s Message To Britney: “Stay Home”

Oh no she didn’t! Oh yes she did! Shar Jackson, never shy to give the media a piece of her mind—-especially when it involves anything relating to her babies’ daddy, Kevin Federline—-got on her soap box again this week. This time she aimed her remarks at the woman whose children share the same DNA as two of her own offspring—Britney Spears. “I personally think, as a mother, spend more time with your babies,” Jackson told TV’s “Extra.” Jackson also took the opportunity to once again compliment her former live-in love’s parenting skills, calling K-Fed “an amazing father.” As for the … Continue reading →

Madagascar (2005)

Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller) lives in the zoo and has never known any other life. He is the star of the show and loves the way that the crowds gather around to watch him ferociously roar and strut his stuff. Each night, the zoo staff brings his steak on a silver platter, and he couldn’t be more pleased with life. His best friend Marty (Chris Rock) is a zebra with a desire to run free. He has a treadmill in his cage, but it’s not the same as taking off across the savannah. It’s Marty’s birthday, and all he … Continue reading →

Is Your Kid Having a Meltdown Day? Try “DROPPING” It

We’ve all had one of those days–especially with a behaviorally-disordered child–where everything just goes wrong. You know the kind: your kid is constantly frustrated. He’s having multiple tantrums and refusals. Everthing makes him come unglued. He won’t listen and won’t settle down. Maybe he causes a scene in a public place or gets in trouble at school. And you’d just like to dive into a black hole and disappear. Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A., in her fabulous book The Out-of-Sync Child has Fun, suggests that we just “drop it.” What does she mean? Here are the seven drops: 1. Drop Your … Continue reading →