Topic: Parenting

Do Pregnancy Films Make Good Date Movies?

Lionsgate/Melissa Moseley

What to Expect When You're Expecting, a movie with an ensemble cast of celebrities each depicting different versions of mommy-and-daddyhood, comes out in theaters Friday. So, this is a date movie, right?

By Jen Doll

May 14, 2012

Wannabe Grandparents Are Freezing Their Kids' Eggs

According to The New York Times, the latest baby trend appears to be wanna-be grandparents paying to freeze their daughters' eggs so that they can, down the road, indeed become grandparents. Should we be concerned?

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By Adam Martin

May 11, 2012

Comment of the Day

'I Hope My Parenting Is Never Judged...'

Sometimes it's the simple points that we need to be reminded of most, which commenters demonstrated in their responses to Jen Doll's post on that "attachment child" featured Friday morning on The Today Show.

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By Jen Doll

May 11, 2012

Attachment Child Makes Unconvincing Argument for Attachment Parenting

The Time magazine cover on "attachment parenting" featuring a 26-year-old mom breast-feeding her nearly 4-year-old son—the one that we were all talking about Thursday—has made it to the Today show, along with the mom, Jamie Lynne Grumet, and her child, Aram.

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By Jen Doll

May 10, 2012

Our Complicated Relationship with Breasts

The matter inflaming the Internet this Thursday is one of breasts. Particularly, a bare boob, tucked neatly into the mouth of a 3-year-old boy, on the cover of Time magazine.

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By Adam Clark Estes

May 10, 2012

Does Breast-Feeding Sell Magazines?

Time Magazine really swung for the fences with its May 21st cover.

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By Eric Randall

May 2, 2012

The Burning Issue News Outlets Barely Touch in Tanning Bed Mom Story

Hundreds of news outlets are picking up the story of Patricia Krentcil, a New Jersey woman who allegedly brought her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth, but some outlets aren't acknowledging the obvious reason they're elevating a local news report: the woman is painfully, cringe-inducingly tan.

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By Jen Doll

May 1, 2012

Some Questions to Ask Yourself Upon the Arrival of Jessica Simpson's Baby

The long-awaited moment is here: A wee totling has been birthed into this great nation!

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By Jen Doll

Apr 27, 2012

The Celebrity Baby Bump Bubble

Friday's parenting-outrage-inducing piece in The New York Times takes on the celebrity baby bump, and its rejuvenating properties for many a celebrity's lukewarm career.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 26, 2012

Little Girl Fashions Have Become Very Adult

Today's made-for-outrage New York Times trend story: Little girls are wearing fancy, expensive clothes made by fashion designers who make fancy, expensive clothes for little girls now. Little girls!

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By Jen Doll

Apr 11, 2012

Overachieving High School Students Can't Stop Overachieving

High school. What we remember of it is generally fond, if slightly uncomfortable, sort of like the time we were shoved into a locker and left there until, happily, we were rescued by our best friend.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 2, 2012

Dispatches from the Parenting Wars Against the Ice Cream Man

It's that time of year: The seasonal shots have been fired; dormant for the winter, it's now time for the war against the ice cream man again. 

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By Jen Doll

Mar 28, 2012

Kindergarten Student Loans Are a Sad Reality of Our Time

Parents are taking out loans to pay for their children's educations. That's been happening for years, you say? Well, yes. Except now the loans are being taken out for high school educations—and even kindergarten. 

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By Jen Doll

Mar 27, 2012

When Bad Moms Get Book Deals

The Internet has seized upon the mortifying story told by Dara-Lynn Weiss, who put her 7-year-daughter Bea on what people are calling the "Tiger Mother" diet, and then wrote about it in Vogue magazine.

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By Jen Doll

Mar 27, 2012

Private Schools Are Getting into the Lucrative Data Mining Business

The challenges facing the well-to-do New York City parent never end!

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By Jen Doll

Mar 26, 2012

The Parents of Summer Babies Have Already Failed

Being a parent is hard. Being a parent in New York City, where if you don't get your kid into the right preschool or kindergarten you've pretty much ruined the kid's chance of getting into an Ivy League university and having a successful, productive life (or some seem to think), is even harder.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 20, 2012

Is Marriage Only for the Rich and Well-Educated?

We're starting to dance around a reality in which marriage is no longer for everyone. What's important is the question of why that's the case, and what happens next.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 20, 2012

The Latest Trend Is Baby Trends

Are parents becoming truly insufferable, or is it simply that the media cannot resist a baby trend story?

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By Jen Doll

Feb 15, 2012

Introducing Babyccinos, the Latest Twee Brooklyn Trend

Do you live in Brooklyn? Do you drink coffee? Do you have a baby, and does it want its own coffee, too? If so, babyccinos, not to be confused with baby chinos, are for you.

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By Dino Grandoni

Nov 17, 2011

Stat of the Day

68% of the Sons of the 1% Work at Their Dad's Company

Nepotism and wealth go together according to a study published in the Journal of Labor Economics.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 27, 2011

Spatwatch

Is There a Better Way for Kids to Go the F*ck to Sleep?

Players: Adam Mansbach, author of Go the F**k to Sleep and for the moment, the patron saint of frustrated parents; Eric Metaxes, author of It's Time To Sleep, My Love, and the uncredited inspiration for the profane children's book bestseller.

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