Parenting

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 07:18pm

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 06:26pm

If you’re looking for a great stocking stuffer or inexpensive gift for the women in your life, you’ll want to check out the products available from Extreme Diva. They’re best known for their fabulous line of pocket-sized books called Devotions to Go. Each book contains 30 days of devotions to inspire you every day! With titles for busy moms, adoptive moms, brides, caregivers, wri[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:30pm

Lovely homemade Advent Calendar This one focuses on the spirit rather than the gifts. Thank you, Vicky!

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:21pm

Everyone loves a good sale, right? Well, let me tell you about a great one: It’s a Hearts at Home Black Friday after Black Friday Sale Dec. 7-11.Did you sleep in on Black Friday? Did you drag yourself out of bed, but still miss out on some awesome deals because you were standing in line too long at one store? Do you still have shopping to do, but dread the crowds, traffic, and cost? Let Hear[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:56pm

I always loved the TV show, Everybody Loves Raymond. Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton were so funny together! I’ve been watching Patricia Heaton’s new show, The Middle, and really like it. And now I’m thrilled to find out that Ray Romano has a new show out, too! This time, it looks like Ray is getting a little more serious in a TNT show called Men of a Certain Age. The show follo[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:42pm

So I have been searching for weeks now for the perfect dress to wear to my husband’s corporate Christmas Party.  I always want to try something new, but after having kids, I always resort to my favorite LBD (little black dress). It is fab and forgiving all at the same time, so I love wearing it.  BUT, [...]

Tags: featured, accessories, macys, cure the little black dress, little black dress, lbd

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:42pm

So I have been searching for weeks now for the perfect dress to wear to my husband’s corporate Christmas Party.  I always want to try something new, but after having kids, I always resort to my favorite LBD (little black dress). It is fab and forgiving all at the same time, so I love wearing it.  BUT, [...]

Tags: featured, accessories, Fashion Fridays, macys, cure the little black dress, little black dress

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:37pm

AP - It was a story meant to captivate the United Nations: A dozen Cuban children with heart defects were forced to endure unnecessary surgery because the U.S. embargo blocked them from receiving American-made catheters.

Tags: health

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:23pm

This year, Hanukkah starts on the evening of December 11. Here's Anna's wise menorah safety hack: My kids are almost 6, almost 3, and just 1. We involve the older kids in lighting their own menorahs, picking out the candles, helping with the actual lighting, etc. But, there is a lot of time spent saying afterwards, "don't go near the candles!" I considered gating up the ro[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:11pm

Amazon's at it again with the magazine promotion, and one of my favorites, Disney FamilyFun, is on the list. If you wish you were more crafty but are intimidated by most magazine projects, FamilyFun is for you. It's full of easy-but-classy crafts and clever-but-simple recipes anyone can pull off. I'm always surprised by just how much I get out of each issue. It's $9.95 for a 1-[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:06pm

After publishing our piece on the Canadian recall of Melissa & Doug toys for violating a barium standard that mirrors the limit levels in force in the U.S. (1,000 ppm) we received an email from reader and blogger Candace which included a personal email address for Doug Bernstein, President of Melissa & Doug. We noted in our previous post that we had contacted the owners by email and attemp[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:05pm

Even though a trip to any mall is enough to ruin your weekend, we'll expand the reach of the Freakout a bit, just to make sure: While the terrorist elf who threatened to blow up Mall Santa in Georgia has been arrested, he may have accomplices. So until the Fat Man gives the all clear, we should consider anyone in an elf suit a suspect. Help us, Rush Limbaugh, you're our only hope! [w[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 11:57am

You'd think that with all of the conversations and warnings going on about sexting, that kids would be less likely to do it and parents would be more aware of what they are doing. (read Sexting: Harmful or Harmless?) Still, Sexting numbers have gone through the roof.

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 11:41am

Here’s an idea that stood out again this year as a great way to incorporate test prep into your holiday gift-giving. VerbaLearn is a unique online service that focuses on vocabulary building for grades 7 – 12 (and higher). The service successfully bridges the gap between traditional flashcards and Web 2.0 technologies by offering audio, video, games, and more! The creators of thi[...]

Tags: Tips and Tools, Schoolwork, educating teenagers, holiday gifts for teenagers

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 11:41am

Reuters - U.S. drug reviewers recommended that regulators further study the effects of atypical antipsychotic medicines in children, a report released on Friday said.

Tags: health

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 11:40am

It's time for a Mom Confession -- because, let's face it, we're real mothers and sometimes it doesn't work the way the parenting books say it should. This Week's Confession: I don't put my toddler to bed until around midnight so that she sleeps later in the morning. I get more housework done that way. — anonymous See this poll at CafeMom. We all have secret[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 11:00am

While we were in Disney, my daughter, Captain Obvious, came down with a fever. She had no other symptoms except she was cold. She eventually became tired and lethargic from it, so we took her back to the hotel instead of her feasting on pizza at CiCis. Within a day she was perfectly fine again, liquid ibuprofen went to work so she was still able to enjoy her vacation.On Saturday, Super M came down[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 10:24am

A new website has just launched that movie fans will absolutely love. MovieClips.com hosts approximately 12,000, 1-2 minute, streaming clips from the film libraries of 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures. Now you can easily watch or discover the best, most talked about or funniest scenes in film. Even better, MovieClips.com is completely fr[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 10:12am

Everyone loves to knock airline travel. The bland (or non-existent) food, lack of legroom, lost luggage and security hassles are all ripe joke fodder, but there’s one subject that generates more punch than punchline. Kids on a plane. This topic has been in the hot seat yet again due to the recent headlines about Southwest Airlines [...]

Tags: Articles, Editor&#039, s Blog, Family Travel 101, Airline Travel

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 09:22am

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called, You can’t call-in sick when you’re a mom. Well wouldn’t you know it, I inevitably gave my daughter her first cold. That night she woke at 1am hysterically crying. I went into her room and as soon as I picked her up I knew she had a fever. She was hot to the touch. I got the thermometer out and took her temperature. Sure enough, it was [...]

Tags: breastfeed, cool-mist humidifier, Infant Tylenol, rectal temperature, saline drops, temperature

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 09:20am

I came across this site recently and wanted to help get the word out for Aaliyah and her mother. The plea for help appears legitimate, please do what you can to share her story so that it gets the media and public's attention it deserves. Thanks! Please help.  I would like to ask those of you in California (and elsewhere) to take the time to write emails and letters to the following ab[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 09:02am

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Children who are vaccinated against chicken pox may also have increased protection against shingles, new findings suggest.

Tags: health

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 09:02am

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a bacterium that is found in as many as 30 percent of pregnant women, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says.

Tags: health

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 08:34am

Hi Readers! I’m sorry for what happened to this kid, but is it NEWS? And did we NEED that last line? And as the guy who sent this to Free-Range Kids said: “I thought this a headline from The  Onion.” But no. It’s from Gainseville, Fla: 7-year-old ends up walking home alone from school By Harriet Daniels Stafff writer Published: [...]

Tags: Uncategorized, school, walk, bus, samaritan

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 07:37am

Things were all so simple then, in April, when I brushed aside They Might Be Giants' energetic 1993 cover version of, "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas." The song was written by Hy Zaret in 1950, for Space Songs, part of the "Ballads for the Age of Science" series. Well, the 1950 theory of state of the sun turns out to be wrong, and on their new CD, Here Comes Scie[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 07:31am

Healthy Baby Bounty Bag My thoughts have been with Cafe MicheleZ, who just had twins two days ago! I wonder how she's doing ... probably wonderful and crazy and sleepless all at the same time. It's called me back to my own hospital stays, all the flowers and gifts, and how wonderful it was to finally go home with my babies. The nurses told me I couldn't keep the receiving blanket ([...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 07:00am

If we're to believe the looks on the fall fashion runways and this article "More Men Have Something They Want to Get Off Their Chests -- Their Shirts" in the Wall Street Journal, we may be seeing a lot more man chest in 2010. Happy or sad?Man cleavage and plunging necklines — I suppose I won't mind as long as there are no gold chains or crazy hair patches involved. And, y[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 07:00am

Photo by sstepph We have a brand new feature on CafeMom, called Photo Galleries, in which you can share your photos on a determined theme. Fun huh? So are you ready to share?Today, share photos of your holiday decorations! Just click the green 'Add a Photo' button in the photo gallery to add your holiday decor to the mix. I want to see your Christmas trees, holiday crafts, Yule trees, s[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 07:00am

See this video at CafeMom. Fellow exercisers, when it comes to strength-training and weight-lifting, who among us HATES reps with the heat of a thousand burning suns? (My hand is raised!) My dears, this workout is for us.The group of seven exercises should be completed 2-3 times per week. Do each exercise in the group one time, stretched over the course of 90 seconds. In total, this workout should[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 07:59am

According to the calendar, this is the year to spend Christmas at my parent's place. According to the airlines, however, this is the year to stay home. Over the past month, I've looked at hundreds of flights out of more than a half-dozen Midwest airports into three different hubs near my folks. The cost: astronomical, times four. Sometime in the next week, I'll bite the bullet and b[...]

Tags: Family Travel