Babble

Pre-child, I was righteous. I believed that while parenting was hard, I was going to manage to conduct myself well at least the majority of the time. Ha. Ha. Ha. Now I know that I'm more likely to high-five myself on very rare occasions of almost accidental successful parenting, than to reflect every...

A general consensus that has emerged from the International AIDS conference currently being held in Mexico is that the global approach to fighting AIDS does too little for children . According to health workers at the conference, much of the government money earmarked for combating AIDS in developing...

You know of this mom-flap? A.k.a. the spare tire, the c-section remnant roll, the muffin top. Crabmommy, who coined the term, is tired of hers and she has issued a challenge . Five minutes of abdominal exercises daily to banish the flap for good. She put out a call to her readers, and is now on week...

I doubt most parents would assume a box of waffles with a picture of SpongeBob on the front was necessarily health food. But what if the box also had a label saying, "high in essential nutrients for growing kids"? Even if you don't consciously think about it, you might soften in your approach...

For too many kids, school is the only place they can be guaranteed a good meal every day – a situation that is sure to get worse as more families get squeezed by skyrocketing prices on food and gas and rising unemployment. In summer, though, those kids are not in school and so aren’t getting the nutrition...

In this week's Bad Parent essay , Jeanne Sager confesses that she is a recovering bulimic and is petrified that she'll pass on her eating disorder to her daughter. "I worry constantly: Should she have another cookie?" Sager writes. "Should I buy the organic peanut butter or the...

It's my week to be on the bummer beat. To wit: A couple in Atlanta was sentenced to life in prison in the death of their 6-week old son. They were convicted last year of malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children for feeding the baby only soy milk and apple juice...

Just when the pregnant ladies thought they got enough flack about what they ingest during gestation. Now check this out: Researchers say a mother's prenatal diet can influence the early onset of puberty . Sheesh, I was chalking it up to non-organic milk and Bratz dolls. You mean my nutritional choices...

Carnie Wilson hit what she claims to be 'rock bottom' 3 months ago, at 208 pounds. With a healthy lifestyle including good old fashioned exercise and nutritious food, she managed to drop 15 pounds, and has 30 to go before she will get pregnant again. "I want to get pregnant again,"...

Hey, remember how a little while back we were told childhood obesity was a horrific epidemic ravaging the land? And then every thirty seconds or so a study and accompanying news story would appear, saying that juice or distant mothers or text messaging was one of the causes? (Side note: News outlets...