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July 2008
- Obamas Keep Girls' Feet on Ground
  
  newser | People | 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  It can be hard enough to keep kids grounded, but Barack and Michelle Obama's task might be complicated by his quest to be the most powerful leader in the world. Not so, the Obamas tell People, in a look at how they keep it real on the campaign trail. The Democratic candidate says 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha are normal kids who make a buck a week for allowance, and fear moving to DC and making new friends should dad get the job. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Chicago • presidential campaign • parenting • Michelle Obama • celebrity parents • People Magazine • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama
- Junkie-Turned-Reporter Writes His Own Story
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 19, 08 12:02 PM CDT
  
  The junkie's tale of redemption is nearly a cliché by now, and David Carr acknowledges as much as he writes his own. But Carr, now a reporter for the New York Times , takes pains not to sugar-coat the years he spent as a "fat thug who beat up women and sold bad coke." His salvation turned out to be his coke-addicted girlfriend and the twin girls they had—the same twins he once left alone as infants in a frigid car as he visited a dope house . More »
  
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  cocaine • parenting • addiction • drug addiction • crack cocaine
June 2008
- How to Work Museums Into Kids' Summers
  
  newser | Slate | Jun 25, 08 7:36 AM CDT
  
  For kids, summer means endless hours at the pool—but parents don't want them to grow up culturally underfed cretins, either. Emily Bazelon offers Slate readers a few suggestions for turning a summer museum trip into an outing the young'uns (and you) will actually enjoy: Keep it simple. Kids have short attention spans and hate to walk for hours. More »
  
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  children • parenting • family • summer • museum • outing
- Jerry to Mick's Kids: Don't Date Men Like Dad
  
  newser | Daily Mail (UK) | Jun 17, 08 10:16 AM CDT
  
  Mick Jagger’s ex stomached his philandering for 20 years but Jerry Hall insists their daughters—Elizabeth, 21, and Georgia May, 15—will never date a wild womanizer like their Rolling Stones dad, the Daily Mail reports. “No, never. But I don't think they would. They have far more confidence than I did, and they have great boundaries.” More »
  
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  celebrity • children • parenting • celebrity divorces • celebrity parents • Mick Jagger • cheating • adultery • Jerry Hall • dating tips
- A Call for Dads to Step Up
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 14, 08 2:10 PM CDT
  
  As Father’s Day approaches, it’s important to recognize that alarming numbers of America’s youth don’t know their fathers, leaving them feeling like “throwaway people,” writes Juan Williams in the Wall Street Journal . The lack of a dad “to push them, discipline them,” can mean “they give up trying to succeed,” says an author who writes for teens. More »
  
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  parenting • family • father • single parenting • Father's Day • child care
- Jolie Talks Mommies, Killers
  
  newser | Entertainment Weekly | Jun 12, 08 12:33 PM CDT
  
  Angelina Jolie was shocked to learn she and Brad Pitt were expecting twins but also, perhaps unnecessarily, tells Entertainment Weekly that pregnancy can be good for the sex life. She also discusses talking politics with Clint Eastwood, the challenges of getting ready to have six kids under 8, Billy Bob Thornton’s blood, and two recent onscreen roles—as an assassin and a mom. More »
  
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  sex • parenting • celebrity pregnancy • Angelina Jolie • movies • Brad Pitt • celebrity parents • twins • Clint Eastwood • raising children
- Mommy Spears-est Memoir Unshelved
  
  newser | People | Jun 12, 08 11:59 AM CDT
  
  Lynn Spears’ book about raising daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn will hit stores in the fall, the publisher tells People . Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World was shelved when Jamie Lynn became pregnant last year. A spokesman for the publisher says the memoir, “will not be a parenting book.” More »
  
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  Britney Spears • book • parenting • celebrity parents • tabloids • Jamie Lynn Spears • memoir • Lynne Spears • celebrity tell-alls
- Summer Tips for Greener Kids
  
  newser | Grist | Jun 12, 08 10:14 AM CDT
  
  Summer is the perfect season to turn your rugrats into ecomaniacs, as warm weather and school vacations collide. Grist lists some basic steps to green up your family’s summer: Get outside: The best way to commune with nature is to experience it first-hand, but the time kids spend outdoors has shrunk by half over the past 20 years. More »
  
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  list • environment • environmentalism • parenting • parents • summer • green • sunscreen • farmers markets • eco friendliness
- 45 Reasons to Have a Kid. ASAP
  
  newser | Babble | Jun 5, 08 2:38 PM CDT
  
  If you're planning on having a kid at some point then now's the perfect time, advises Babble , which lists 45 reasons to produce a curtain-climber without delay. Here are the top 5: Halvies: Unlike the old days, fathers are expected to do half the dirty work like changing diapers Your inner kid: Having a baby is a great excuse to throw on classic kids' shows on DVD, like Sesame Street and Schoolhouse Rock More »
  
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  children • parenting • babies • infant
- Tatum Thanks Cops for Drug Bust
  
  newser | New York Post | Jun 3, 08 10:57 AM CDT
  
  Tatum O’Neal is thanking the police who busted her for buying drugs Sunday. "Just when I was about to change that and wreck my life, the cops came and saved me!" the actress tells New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser. She says the death of her Scottish terrier “seemed to set me off.” More »
  
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  celebrity • New York City • parenting • arrest • drug addiction • crack cocaine • celebrity tell-alls • drug possession • Tatum O'Neal
- Want a Skinny Kid? Don't Tell Her She's Fat
  
  newser | Minneapolis Star Tribune | Jun 2, 08 4:18 PM CDT
  
  A new study of obese teens has produced a counterintuitive indication: Parents should under no circumstances tell pudgy youngsters to diet, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. A group of teens correctly identified by parents as overweight and encouraged to diet were more likely to still be chunky 5 years later than was a group with clueless parents who took no action. More »
  
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  children • teenagers • parenting • diet • scientific study • teen health • obese
- Angelina: Woman, Uninterrupted
  
  newser | Vanity Fair | Jun 2, 08 11:56 AM CDT
  
  The every mood and move of "Brangelina" results in frantic flashbulbs and screaming headlines, but when Rich Cohen sat down with Angelina Jolie for Vanity Fair , he found a complete woman whose life perhaps imitates her art. The "ultimate avatar of fantasies," her onscreen roles have reflected her personal evolution: from wild child to crusader to Brad Pitt's "wife." More »
  
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  parenting • Angelina Jolie • Brad Pitt • Vanity Fair • name • raising children
May 2008
- Sect Moms Say Kids Scarred
  
  newser | New York Times | May 29, 08 12:39 PM CDT
  
  Taking young children away from their parents has harmful effects, say mothers from the polygamist sect in Texas, and numerous studies agree—which is why federal and state guidelines require a “reasonable effort” to keep children with their parents before removing them. Texas authorities don't appear to have done so, mothers and experts say, in taking 468 children from YFZ ranch, the New York Times reports. More »
  
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  Texas • parenting • polygamy • child custody • Yearning for Zion ranch • FLDS • polygamists • social services
- Cruise Threatens Baby Shop Over Leaks
  
  newser | ABC News | May 25, 08 9:15 AM CDT
  
  Always-bristling actor Tom Cruise had his attorney read the riot act to a luxury Los Angeles baby boutique for allegedly leaking word that he and wife Katie Holmes went on a $400,000 buying binge after their daughter, Suri, was born. The owner of the Petit Tresor, who received a nasty cease-and-desist note from Cruise's lawyer, insisted her shop is not to blame. More »
  
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  lawsuit • parenting • baby • Tom Cruise • Katie Holmes • baby boom • Suri Cruise
- Germany Seizes 'eBay Baby'
  
  newser | BBC | May 24, 08 6:53 PM CDT
  
  Germany has taken a seven-month-old baby from his parents after they tried to sell him on eBay, the BBC reports. The yet-unnamed child was advertised as “nearly-new” and had a starting price of one euro. “It was only a joke,” the child’s mother said. “I just wanted to see if someone would make an offer.” More »
  
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  Germany • eBay • parenting • baby • child abuse • social services
- This Is 'Playing.' This Is 'Outside.'
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | May 16, 08 5:48 PM CDT
  
  Using the flap over a New York 9-year-old allowed to find his own way home from Bloomingdale's as an example of a sea change, Rosa Brooks, writing in the Los Angeles Times, reminds us that allowing children to be outside on their own used to be the norm. "'Play,' incidentally, is a mysterious activity children engage in when not compelled to spend every hour under adult supervision," she writes. More »
  
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  children • parenting • childhood obesity • independence • playground games
- 'Baby Planners' Born of Busy Moms-to-Be
  
  newser | ABC News | May 15, 08 1:53 PM CDT
  
  Babies are tough, time-consuming work – even before they’re born. That’s why a new industry of “baby planners” has cropped up, catering to busy women who don’t have time for things like setting up registries, decorating nurseries, and hiring a nanny. For a mere $100 or so an hour, baby planners can do all that and more, ABC news reports. More »
  
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  pregnancy • parenting • baby
- 'Mommy Weirdest' Blogger Tells It Like It Is: Depressing
  
  newser | ABC News | May 14, 08 8:40 PM CDT
  
  The latest irreverent star of cyberspace is a former Mormon mommy blogger who isn't afraid to write that motherhood can be "awful." Heather Armstrong of Salt Lake City loves her 4-year-old daughter, but she complains that "sometimes it's really unpleasant and you turn around and you're like, 'What did I do to my life?''' More »
  
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  parenting • depression • blogging • motherhood • post partum depression
- Beer Gets Seatbelt, Kid Doesn't
  
  newser | Brisbane Times (Australia) | May 13, 08 5:28 PM CDT
  
  An Australian man has been fined after buckling up his beer but letting a 5-year-old child ride sitting on the floor of his car. "The concern is about people's priorities," a police spokesperson told the Brisbane Times, adding, "It is very unusual to see someone go to the trouble of strapping in a carton of beer instead of a small child. That is the shocking thing." More »
  
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  Australia • parenting • beer • seatbelts
- Depressed Dads Make Kids Less Literate
  
  newser | USA Today | May 7, 08 1:20 PM CDT
  
  About 10% of new fathers show signs of clinical depression—a rate twice that of other men—and that can have a noticeable effect on their children, an American Psychiatric Association study finds. Sad dads interact less with their progeny, which means less bedtime reading and a smaller vocabulary by age 2, reports USA Today . More »
  
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  parenting • depression • reading • infant • toddler • literacy • fatherhood • vocabulary

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