Babble

Ready for this week's sobering data? The average kid today is more anxious than a 1950's kid who is also a psychiatric patient. According to this 2000 study , the 1980s were a boom time for anxious kids. And the trend hasn't decreased, which stands to reason if these anxious kids are now...

I can't see what the gas prices are now. Drive over there and look. No trouble for Tom and Katie ( Hollyscoop ) Rod Stewart's wife and youngest ( Celebrity Baby Scoop ) Snoop Dogg doing soap operas? ( Perez Hilton ) Tom Cruise was almost Edward Scissorhands? ( TomKatCrazy ) All the photos of...

Damn, if they keep showing reruns those people will never get off the island. Jack Black has good taste in music ( Celebrity Baby Blog ) Minnie craves Mexican ( Celebrity Baby Scoop ) Matt McConaughey needs a haircut ( Just Jared ) Pete and Ashlee ( Babyrazzi ) Reese Witherspoon standing! ( Jezebel ...

My parents separated when I was seven, and throughout the rest of my childhood I resented all the reports on the news and in the papers about how bad divorce was for children. I knew my parents both loved me, and had acted in all things - including their divorce - in the best interests of me and my sister...

What a relief. Here I've been beating my head against a wall out of guilt and shame over completely ruining my kids' lives, subjecting them to the Pain of Living in a Broken Home, and it turns out I don't have to any more. I can hold my head up as a productive member of society again, me...