by Stacey
The media lovefest with Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin seems to be finally coming to an end. Thank the God she so frighteningly worships. This Sunday’s New York Times and Washington Post both have articles critiquing her Bush-administration style of governing: appoint your friends to positions for which they are overpaid and underqualified […]

by Stacey
Diapers save us from a lot of smelly messes that ruin our homes and force us to question whether to leave our beloved babies on our neighbors’ doorstep so it really isn’t necessary to make the case that diapers do a great service. But in case you weren’t sure, this AP story shows that […]

by Stacey
I really enjoy watching the Daily Show and I especially like the show’s only female correspondent, Samantha Bee. Over the winter I noticed that she looked pregnant. Indeed she was.
She recently had her baby, a boy named Fletcher.

Samantha Bee with her daughter Piper
Samantha is married to Jason Jones, who is also a Daily Show […]

by Stacey
No one makes you take a common sense test before you have children, but sometimes you have to wonder if maybe they should. According to this AP story, a family court judge in New Zealand had a nine-year old girl renamed, figuring she’d suffered enough with the name her parents gave her.
Are you ready?
Talula […]

by Stacey
This year Father’s Day came and went with little discussion here about the very important role that dads play in their kids’ lives. So I was glad to see this blog post in the NY Times on this essay posted at PsychCentral on responsible fatherhood so I could circle back to it.
In study after […]

by Stacey
Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama used the occasion of Father’s Day last weekend to talk about the role of fathers in the lives of many black children. This article in the NY Times said that in a speech at a 20,000-member Apostolic Church of God on the South Side near Lake Michigan, Obama delivered […]

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers
by Stacey
A new study in the Journal of Family Psychology shows that it isn’t just babies that moms have to nurture. According to this article in Science Daily, researchers at Ohio State University found that fathers were more involved in the day-to-day care of their infants when they received active encouragement from their […]

by Stacey
I spent today nursing a cold and taking care of kids at the same time. Ah yes, the beloved sucks-for-you sick day that’s just one of the many perks of being a stay-at-home parent.
In my misery, I allowed myself the pleasure of reading this Vanity Fair cover story about Madonna who is turning fifty […]

by Stacey
One in four late talking toddlers will continue to have language problems by age seven, according to new research out of Western Australia. This article in Science Daily says that the project, called LOOKING at Language, analyzed the speech development of 1766 children from infancy to age seven, with particular focus on environmental, neuro-developmental […]

by Stacey
I’m not sure I totally buy this, but according to this article from Science Daily, mothers who eat high-energy foods, that is lots of calories, at the time of conception are more likely to have boys than girls.
New research by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford provides the first evidence that a child’s sex […]