Just watching "Good Morning America" and heard Somer Thompson's mother tell Robin Roberts that she feels if she wasn't a working mom this horrible tragedy wouldn't have happened. Isn't that sad?Â
Have the mommy wars gone so far that it now makes sense for a working mother to consider herself as much to blame for her daughter's abduction as the perpetrator?
It's natural to try and…
Friday night my son came to our room to tell me his stomach hurt. Then he threw up on the floor. He's ten, and it always happens this way.  (At least he manages to get downstairs, where the floors are wood instead of carpet.) This time, it was a tummy bug. (Other times it's been too many hotdogs.) And since he'd eaten blueberries with dinner, what came out was alarmingly like…
In the Fall Makeover issue of In Style Magazine, Brooke Shields is asked why she wonât cut her long hair. She responds, âI could so easily look like a soccer mom.â
Remember when Marcia Brady had to choose between nice but ordinary Charlie and dreamy Doug Simpson? It was the timeless âOh, my nose!â episode. (My kids have the series on DVD. It comes in green shag box. This is currently my cultural touchstone.)
My dad is a trained scientist who does not believe in sugarcoating the facts, even when dealing with children. Thatâs why when my five-year-old sister asked what happens after we die, he explained the inevitable rot of carbon-based life forms. She had bad dreams for years.
We were relaxing at the pool when this little girl came up and unloaded a lie. A big one. The kind thatâs a whole lot of âI am not a crook,â and very little of âNo, those jeans donât make you look fat.â
No housewife-abducting alien spacecraft could have done a better job deleting the details of daily life than these two young children I am rearing. My formerly competent mind is wiped utterly clean. I have no memory. No ability to recall.
It's that time of year to decide where to send your child to Kindergarten! Kids R Kids of Clayton is holding a Kindergarten Information Session to present details of our Kindergarten program to the public. See details
Join us a Duke for a series of events to celebrate Brain Awareness Week (March 15-21)!
We are holding a series of public lectures at Duke and around Durham--whether you are interested in genetics, economics, chimpanzees, or psychotherapy, we have a lecture for you! See details
"The Carolina Mountains" exhibit, on loan from the NC Museum of History, looks at life in western North Carolina around 1900, through the words and photography of Margaret Morley. See details
RDU Sting Women's Basketball is looking to form a booster club and club administration that will coordinate fund raising events and arrange community service activities. See details
Looking for something for your child to do during Spring Break and/or Intersession? Durham Parks and Recreation has programs available for ages 5-18, including intersession camps, babysitting and lifeguard training, basketball camp and more! See details
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