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Clashing Parenting Styles: Grandma’s Way vs. Your Way

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant took a 13-month-old girl away from her parents after the mother slapped the child during a flight, CNN reports.

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Flight Attendant Takes Baby after Slap from Mom

By My Brown Baby

I remember calling my mother when Jack and Molly had their first hand-slappy, indignant-shrieky, all-out-bawling fight. “I thought had YEARS,” I said, stricken

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Sibling Strife

Lauren at Parenting.com: When I was little and my mother punished me, I would write fake letters to the Highlights magazine advice column, saying things like “My mother doesn’t understand me. What do I do?” Or, “My mom is mean to me for no reason

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Kids Say The Darndest (Most Passive Aggressive) Things

Do you know an amazing new mom who deserves special recognition? Maybe a multi-tasking military mom, or a parent of a disabled child who adopted twins? We want to hear about her! Inspired by Mother’s Day, the May issue of Babytalk will feature ‘Moms Who Rock,’ a salute to extraordinary new mothers

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Call for Nominations: Moms Who Rock!

…I don’t mean to be so advertisey, but my mother just said to me three days ago, “oh my! I forgot to write my holiday cards, I’d better do that today!” And just yesterday I received a beautiful card in the mail. I was muy impressed

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It’s Not Too Late for Holiday Cards — Really! Here’s An Easy Solution.

The torture usually came on Saturday evenings, in the kitchen. I’d be sitting on a stack of thick yellow phone books and a pillow, squished between my mother’s knees; she’d be perched on the hard wooden kitchen chair, bent over and leaning in at some ungodly angle, trying hard to tame the kinky curls at the nape of my neck with gobs of thick grease and a scorching hot comb.

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The Joys (and Pains!) of Kinky, Curly Black Girl Hair

After a toddler tantrum got a 2-year-old and his mother booted off a Southwest flight, the blogosphere rejoiced. “Bout @#$$#@ time,” and “The mother is only angling for a free ticket so she can flee the little basterd,” were among the comments on fark.com

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Does Society Hate Children?

Look, I support all sorts of post-birth rituals.

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WTFriday: Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a…Placenta?