In the days before Fifty Shades Of Grey, it was romance novels that were apparently causing apron-clad mommies to dismiss themselves early from dinner and go to the bedroom to read — or so the silly narrative goes? But the latest “mommy porn” heroine isn’t a bright-eyed 21-year-old college graduate, but rather a keenly ripped version of Michele Bachmann.
Heck, I’m game. More
How hiring a babysitter made me a better mom (Babble)
Disney pulls ‘Jesse’ episode after petition claims it shames kids with gluten allergies (HuffPo Parents)
Bicep size and political beliefs (The Frisky)
Face it: No one will treat you like an adult until you’re married (Your Tango)
Ask a glutton who wants to help (The Hairpin)
Teen fakes own kidnapping to avoid telling his parents about a bad grade (The Stir)
This is what fat discrimination really looks like (HuffPo Women)
CaCee Cobb and Donald Faison catch lunch (Celeb Baby Laundry)
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In the mommy blogosphere, where the word “brave” is casually thrown around to describe a woman in a postpartum bikini, the term is consistently cheapened. So much so that when I whip it out to describe sixth grade teacher Rhonda Crosswhite, I grapple with others like “hero,” “superhuman,” and straight up Superwoman. More
As any loyal Crushable-reader/Bradley-Cooper-Stalker knows, the acclaimed actor lives with his mother. And not in some kind of creepy Lucille & Buster Bluth way, but in a totally normal and healthy way. Yet for some reason Bradley Cooper got put on the defensive last night when Jay Leno acted like this must be some major deterrant to bringing home ladies on The Tonight Show last night.
When I travel without my children, I now do really strange things before getting on a plane. I’m completely embarrassed to admit this, but I have a ritual now which includes touching the walls leading onto the plane 20 times and then I MUST touch the outside of the plane, with both the front of my hand and the back of my hand, before boarding. I have no idea why I started this, or why this is what I think I have to do for my children to be okay (or for me to not die on a plane and leave my children with no mother) but I do know that it all started after the birth of my daughter. More
Even though the Jolie-Pitt children have apparently been hounding parents Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to put a ring on it, that doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily fans of watching them necking. That’s right, I said necking.
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Today begins the silly spectacle of determining whether yoga is “too religious” for schools. The case, Sedlock v. Baird et al, was brought by parents in San Diego who object to yoga in the their children’s school curriculum.
Now, I can understand asking the teens to pay for the damage caused by their little prank. Ten thousand crickets must cause a huge mess for school officials and hiring an exterminator for a large school is probably costly. That being said, this is graduation season and $600 is a lot of money for a kid. Maybe their parents will have to cough it up, but still. More
I know there are parents out there who have had a baby die to co-sleeping and my heart breaks for these people. I can think of nothing more terrible than that, because I believe the majority of parents who do co-sleep do so because they are madly in love with their newborn and can’t stand the idea of their baby being all alone and crying in a crib. Parents co-sleep for many various reasons, but one of these reasons is usually that they want to be close to their babies. Having a baby die because you wanted to bond with it is a horrible thing. I co-slept with all of my children. Not only because I wanted to be next to them but also because I’m terribly lazy and I breastfed and I hated the idea of wandering down a cold hallway in the middle of the night to feed my newborn. More
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There are many strange and surprising elements of pregnancy. But when you get to the last two weeks, there are a few tip offs that help you realize this baby is coming out of you really soon. More
The hell that is my kids’ bedtime ritual (HuffPo Parents)
The day my 5 year old girl kissed a boy (Babble)
7 reasons “Star Trek: Into Darkness” is a chick flick (The Frisky)
Do women need to stop hugging at work? (HuffPo Women)
The carrot almond breakfast cake (The Hairpin)
Denise Richards is happy to raise Charlie Sheen’s other kids (Celeb Baby Laundry)
Apologies to my children, ages 7 and 5 (The Stir)
‘The Office’ romance; Jim and Pam’s best quotes (Your Tango)
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Props to Khloe Kardashian for defending her big sister Kim against the throngs of pregnancy weight baby shamers out there, which maybe constitutes like ten people, all probably the same DudeBro who is pissy because Kim has a baby growing inside of her. The reason why people don’t really care about Kim Kardashian has nothing to do with the fact she has gained weight with her pregnancy, which is what normal pregnant women do, it’s because the majority of us haven’t figured out how exactly Kim, or any of the Kardashian klan for that matter, are making any of our lives better More
Decades ago if one mentioned that a woman was childless, an image appeared in one’s mind of a batty old woman with thirty cats who perhaps lived in a shoe. You don’t need to review the newest research — which says the number of American women without children has risen to an all-time high of 1 in 5 — to know that this association to the old woman in a shoe no longer applies. However, no one else seems to have taken her place. More
Oklahoma is heartbreaking and beyond tragic. The helpers I have found are not only those I have seen on the news in yellow hats and safety vests, but those who have no name and no identity, and the only collective agreement that as humans on this planet we need to do anything we can to help. When horrible things like this happen we want and need superheroes, and we want to be able to help those who have lost so much for no other reason than the misfortunes of geography. The heroes are out there, not only in the uniforms of the police, firefighters and doctors, but by the masks of Guy Fawkes. Thank you Anonymous. More
