Parenting
Dolce & Gabbana Baby Perfume: For Your Sexiest Infant
Why not? CBS 3 reports: “High end fashion house Dolce & Gabbana claims they’ve bottled the sweet smell of an infant in its new fragrance […]
32-Year-Old Man Sues Parents, Says They Made Him Fail Life
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Or maybe it’s only that desperate people grasp at straws … and lawsuits. Bernard Bey, a 32-year-old homeless man from […]
Dispatch From the Penn Alexander Parents Protest
It’s 5:30 p.m. and a group of 50-odd parents are filing down the steps of Penn’s Houston Hall. “They’re agitating,” one young father says to […]
PA High Schoolers Suspended For Particularly Lewd “Harlem Shake” Video
Today in Harlem Shake news: 13 high school kids from Brownsville, PA, south of Pittsburgh, have been suspended for creating their own edition of the […]
Protest Targets Penn Alexander, Hoping to Increase Incoming Class Size
This will probably end in tears: Parents of some of next year’s prospective Penn Alexander School kindergartners will rally outside a University of Pennsylvania meeting […]
Chris Christie Trying to Force Jersey Moms to Breastfeed
Chris Christie–or at least his underlings in the New Jersey Department of Health–is telling new moms they best be breast-feeding their young’uns. Or else. The […]
North Philly Trains Doulas To Deal With Philly’s “Maternity Crisis”
Next City reports on efforts to train doulas in North Philly because of the ever-diminishing number of maternity wards in town. The result, officials say, […]
How Are the Singing Kids of Newtown Being Exploited?
So, you know those little kids from Newtown who sang “Over the Rainbow” on Good Morning America? No—not the children who sang with Jennifer Hudson […]
Pittsburgh 6-Year-Old Tries to Drive Car Across Town to See Her Dad
A six-year-old-girl managed to avoided injuring anyone when she attempted to drive across town in her mother’s car to visit her dad yesterday morning. At […]
CHOP Named Best Pediatric Hospital in America by Parents Magazine
This is a nice bit of good news for CHOP, after the last two weeks were dominated by talk of the grisly murder of one […]
Bill Greenlee Taking on Fake Tanning Industry with New Bill
I already hear the overwrought indignation coming from the Jersey Shore. Aggressively anti-tanning Councilman Bill Greenlee is proposing a bill to prevent young folks from […]
PA Principal Stops Stocking H.S. Boys’ Bathroom With Toilet Paper
The boys at Mahanoy Area High School are shit out of luck. Okay, bad joke, I agree, but it’s a fair way to describe the […]
If You Eat Raw Cookie Dough, You’ll Get Worms
When I was a kid, my mother used to tell me that if I ate raw cookie dough I would get worms. For years the […]
Penn Alexander Parents Have A Plan to Combat Lottery; Will Meet With Hite on Tuesday
The fight for the heart and soul of Penn Alexander’s admissions process isn’t over yet. According to de facto parent spokesman Brett Feldman, a heated group […]
UPDATE: Penn Alexander Switches to Lottery System
UPDATE: The Philadelphia School District, to the dismay of the roughly 70 parents who were waiting in line (see below) to secure their kids’ places […]