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Childhood obesity is a hot topic and a real concern in America these days.  The problem is only growing and health officials and parents alike have been debating about what course of action to take in both prevention and treatment.  With obesity, comes a slew of health problems including high cholesterol.  Unfortunately, children are not exempt from this side-effect of obesity.  Recently, I read an article concerning this topic on RealAge titled “Should 8-Year-Olds Be Popping Cholesterol Pills?” and it got me to thinking.More Here...

Guest post from Baby Bump Blog

No word yet on whether Kourtney has taken any of our suggestions for her baby registry, but here's what we did find on her registries at Bel Bambini and Babies "R" Us (we guess no one told Kourtney she could consolidate her multiple registries with MyRegistry.com!). More Here...

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Tutu's Bliss recently wrote a post about Kindergarten - here and this got me thinking.

My son Cheeky goes to Kindergarten. He has been a happy go lucky kid who enjoys school. Last year he went to Pre-k and had so much fun. True to his name he is quite Cheeky too.. he had told his teacher that his hand hurts and very often would get out of any writing they required him to do! While suppressing my laughter I tried very hard to tell him he shouldn't do that! He hid under the table at clean up time and played truant! He is a fun kid and means no harm, just that he is Cheeky! The teachers have always loved him and he has never been in trouble at school.. not even a time out! He is a well behaved kid and likes to let the teachers have that good impression about him!

When my son was a baby, I'd hold him close and just breathe him in.  I could spend hours doing nothing except holding him in my arms, watching his perfect face, eye lids twitching in his dreams, and inhale, smelling the scent that is everything perfect and full of potential ... laundry detergent and Desitin and gentle soap and plasticy diapers... and their skin, so soft and pink with its own smell, like dew on a flower.

He's 16 nowMore Here...

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"Normal adoption"-to many, that right there is an oxymoron. The conventional family is obviously biologically related, I'm aware. But I'm not really trying to address absolute normalcy, what I'm tackling is something that occurs within the adoption community.

Okay, so I am adopted. I am white, and I was adopted into a white family. I have no physical or mental disabilities. I am an adoptee of a closed adoption. This right here makes me normal of all adoptees. More Here...