If you have a baby you, quite literally, have to deal with a lot of shit. And the only thing more disturbing than scooping poop clumps out of your daughter's vagina or scraping off feces caked onto your son's balls is that you will want need to talk about it to anyone who will listen, which unsurprisingly isn't very…
CBS is developing a half-hour sitcom called The Mother of All Something, written by Canadian blogger, tweeter and former model Kelly Oxford. Jessica Alba is getting involved as executive producer.
Today in fat news: New evidence shows that babies can be prenatally "programmed" to become overweight children. And those kids are more likely to be fat grownups.
Monday, Forbes announced "The 10 Most Trusted Celebrities." As BlackBook's Rohin Guha notes, there is just one lady on the list:
Over the summer, professional sharer Joyce Maynard, well, shared an essay about her uncommunicative daughter. Ironically, now her daughter writes a rebuttal from her perspective. Because that's how families communicate, right?
Last night's Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage left many feeling sympathetic toward mother-of-14 Nadya Suleman. Her mom is a pain-in-the-ass, her nannies are irksome, she hasn't gotten laid in nine years, and sadly, her kids don't seem to like her.
Typically, when a woman ends up with 14 children, it's because someone else screwed her. On August 19, Fox will air Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage (!!!), a two-hour documentary on Nadya Suleman that looks very depressing…and loud.
Yesterday's Oprah focused on the "new" kind of motherhood, in which women use humor to share experiences, mistakes, and lack of maternal instincts. Heather Armstrong Skyped in to talk about how her blog "saved" her.
Is the new book True Mom Confessions: Real Moms Get Real a great way for women to vent about the frustrations of motherhood? Or a catalyst for their kids' future therapy sessions? [New York Post]
A historian claims that the fact that Henry VIII was raised in a largely feminine household and that his handwriting bears a similarity to his mother's, shaped his "emotionally incontinent" personality and womanizing tendencies. [Telegraph]
Are you ready for a moment of Freud? We're going to talk about your mother. You love her, obviously. But sometimes she drives you crazy, embarrasses you or says something so insane you question whether you're related to her at all. Maybe sometimes you hate her. But, according a new book by clinical psychologist…
We love Tim Gunn. We would like to call him late at night when our hypochondria turns to paralyzing fear. We would like to sit down for tea with him when a boy breaks our heart. We would like to sit and watch Martha Stewart with him. We would like to have him over for the holidays. (Tim, what are you doing for Rosh…
