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So the Jon and Kate plus Eight season premiere is in a few hours, and already the news is in: Jon is having an affair. With Elmo. It's sure to be a very special episode. Bring the kids. OK, so maybe not Elmo, per se, but someone. And Kate, too, apparently. On top of the affairs, there's paparazzi, nosy neighbors, drive-bys and people who ...

I swore we'd never hit up one of those mall photo studios or Olan Mills, remembering all those times I was hauled inside as a kid, scrubbed to a raw pink and pressed into childhood finery only to be transported to some cramped, dimly lit space where the background choices were invariably "library" "open spaces" and ...

I am always on the lookout for those "worst gift ever" Mother's Day stories, because I know that more often than not, I usually need to make an emergency trip back to the store to exchange that Chia mother's head some slick clerk talked me into. And don't even get me started on car wax. Apparently it's not as ...

I've heard of take your daughter to work day, but this is ridiculous ... A woman has come forward to claim that when she was just 7 years old, her dad took her with him while he committed murders that would be called the work of the Zodiac Killer. Says Deborah Perez: “There were strange events with my father,” she said. “I would hear shots ...

Do you often find yourself locked in refrigerators? Worried that your mother will ditch you at the grocery store? Do you ever smoke too much pot and create alternative personalities along the lines of "Johnny Dakota"? You should have watched more TV as a kid. Because the answers to all these dilemmas were given by all your favorite ...

There's an interesting debate afoot about whether there should be population controls to help curb global warming. Should families be limited on the number of children they can have, because of the impacts of more carbon makers on the atmosphere? Sir David Attenborough, the naturalist and broadcaster, says that it's time to do something, ...

Like a lot of people, my education in the criminal underworld comes from a love affair with crime shows and dime-store novels -- along with a brief stint as a small-town crime reporter -- but when I heard about the alleged motive in the killing of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, I couldn't believe it. My wife, watching the news with me, recoiled on ...

I always love these articles about "surviving" the Terrible Twos -- these giddy little paeans to automony and self-sufficiency. "Every time your rambunctious little toddler throws a fit ... she's expressing her burgeoning personality!" I'd rather she just put on the damn pants so we can get out the door in under a ...

The Los Angeles Times jumped on the tragic story of Madeline Spohr, a 17-month-old whose untimely death sparked an outpouring of support and donations among parenting bloggers. From the story: "On Saturday, (mom Heather) Spohr and her husband, Mike, sat on their couch far from the computer. The home that would come alive daily with ...

In our house, there are five easter bunnies, thanks to endless readings of the Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes. The explanation of a bunny who merely carries eggs, rather than lays them, is a whole lot easier to deal with than that genetic freak from Cadbury. Plus, the hero of the tale is a courageous mom, so we appreciate the girl power ...