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  • 'Cold Feet' May Predict Divorce

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • September 14, 2012
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    Ladies: If you're having doubts about marrying your beau, you might want to take a step back. New research shows that a woman's hesitation before her wedding might predict a bumpy road ahead.
    "People think everybody has premarital doubts and you don...

  • Most Grandparents Provide Care for the Grandkids

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • September 7, 2012
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    Most grandparents babysit and provide financial support for grandkids as they try to save their children money and build stronger family connections, two new studies show.
    A University of Chicago analysis of a decade of data based on interviews with...

  • ‘Tooth Fairy’ Gave $3 on Average This Year

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • September 4, 2012
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    The “tooth fairy” gave $3 per tooth on average to children this year, up 15 percent from last year, according to a survey by credit card company Visa.
    Visa also released a free app and online tool,  the Tooth Fairy Calculator, ...

  • Too Busy to Teach Your Child to Ride a Bike? Outsource It!

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • September 4, 2012
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    Teaching your child to ride a bike is so passé. You may think it’s your job to teach balancing, pedaling, and braking, but busy parents now have options.
    Canadian writer Rebecca Eckler recently confessed to hiring a professional bike-ri...

  • How To Deal With Your Kid's Weird Friends

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • August 23, 2012
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    Your child is hilarious, interesting, clever—frankly, he's all-around delightful. But his friends are ...well, we're all adults here, so let's just come out with it: Some of them are weird.
    You don't get them, and you suspect that the other gr...

  • Does Parenting Make Us Fat?

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • August 10, 2012
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    When people think about having children, they often talk about how they can be good role models for their kids, including maintaining a healthier diet.
    Yet when Leah Case takes her 10-month-old daughter Elliot to playgroup, the parents there often a...

  • Study: Parents Publicly Spank Their Kids In Surprising Numbers

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • August 7, 2012
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    Nearly one in four parents or caregivers randomly observed by researchers publicly settled disputes with their child by hitting, spanking or some sort of physical contact, a new study shows.
    Researchers at Michigan State University in East Lansing c...

  • More Latinos Are Becoming Foster Parents Or Adopting, But Need Is Still Great

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • August 1, 2012
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    A college lecture inspired Ray and Connie Gallego to consider what most Latinos still haven’t completely opened up to: adoption.
    “My wife and I were working diligently into our successful careers and decided to start a family. We continu...

  • It Takes More Than Love: What Happens When Adoption Fails

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • August 1, 2012
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    Famous moms like Angelina Jolie, Madonna and Charlize Theron have brought adoption into the limelight, and perhaps even made it look easy. But what happens, and who's to blame, when an adoption doesn’t work?
    In as many as a quarter of adoption...

  • Tattoos And Piercings: How Young Is Too Young?

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • July 31, 2012
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    Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's 11-year-old daughter, Willow, was recently given a tongue-lashing on social media after posting a picture of herself sporting a tongue piercing on Instagram.
    asapniceee: "She is too young for such a provocative piercing...