Family MattersParenting
Skip Your Parent-Teacher Conference, Go to Jail?
Show up for your child’s parent-teacher conference or go to jail: the choice could be yours in Michigan, if a county prosecutor has her way.
Bonnie Rochman
Bonnie Rochman writes about parenting for TIME. She is a former TIME intern who has also reported from the Middle East, Myanmar and Vietnam for the Boston Globe, the Jerusalem Report and Fortune. A former staff writer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. — where she was the paper's parenting blogger, chronicling the wacky yet universal idiosyncracies of her three children — she now lives in Seattle.
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Family MattersObesity
Marie Claire Blogger Grossed Out by Obese TV Lovers
Fat is a dirty word in America. “Overweight” or “obese,” of course, is the politically correct term. Yet Marie Claire blogger Maura Kelly threw tact to the wind and called it like she sees it earlier this week when she voiced her online disgust with CBS sitcom Mike & Molly.
Family MattersInfertility
Are You Fertile? Don’t Rely on a Drug-Store Fertility Test to Tell You
We women are accustomed to peeing on chemically-treated sticks to learn what our bodies are up to. Pregnancy tests administered in the confines of the master bathroom are more accurate than ever, but new research indicates that …
Family MattersParenting
Parents Lament the Hyland’s Teething Tablets Recall
Before Saturday’s recall of Hyland’s teething tablets, not many parents would likely take have taken issue with the homeopathic concoction encapsulated in those tiny pills that dissolve in baby’s mouth. Regardless of where …
Family MattersParenting
Study: Most Babies Sleep Through the Night (But Not Mine)
There is a new Pediatrics study showing most babies sleep through the night by three months. I do not know those babies. Nor do I want to get to know their parents.
Family MattersCancer
Kids, Cancer and Clinical Trials: Parents Are Confused
Fifty years ago, a diagnosis of childhood leukemia meant you needed to start planning your child’s funeral. Now it’s got an 85% cure rate, largely due to advances attributed to information gleaned from pediatric clinical …
Family MattersParenting
16 and Pregnant: Tuned-In Teens Are Turned Off by Teen Pregnancy
The U.S. teen birth rate dropped a smidgen between 2007 and 2008, but still, on average, three of every 10 girls gets pregnant at least once by the time she turns 20.
Family MattersBreast Cancer
Pregnant Women with Breast Cancer Should Do Chemo
Sheila Reigner was 26 weeks pregnant when she found out she had breast cancer. “You are going to die within six months if you don’t do chemo,” she remembers the doctors saying.
Family MattersInfertility
Oh, Baby: Octomom’s Doctor Could Lose His License
Who’s worried about Octomom? Initially goo-goo-ga-ga over the idea of octuplets, the public quickly changed its tune when announcement of the births was soon overshadowed by news of Nadya Suleman’s other six kids and her …
Family MattersBreast Cancer
Breast-Feeding after Breast Cancer Is O.K.
Breast-feeding may sound counterintuitive after breast cancer, but new research indicates there’s no reason why survivors shouldn’t nurse a baby — even on the treated breast.
Family MattersPregnancy
Eating Poppy Seeds in Pregnancy, an Ill-Advised Habit
The advice to stop eating once labor kicks in has always seemed a bit draconian to me. Giving birth is hard work; why not munch if you’re hungry?
Family MattersDiet
It’s Fat-Talk Free Week (and You Could Win $1,000)
Did you know that 54% of women would prefer to be hit by a truck than be fat? Yep, you read that right. That women obsess about their weight is hardly news; if you think that should change, you might want to celebrate Fat-Talk …
Family MattersInfertility
First Comes Cancer, Then Come Children: The New World of Oncofertility
Cancer used to be an old people’s disease. No longer: we all have friends and colleagues — young people, in their 20s, 30s, 40s — who’ve been on the receiving end of a scary diagnosis. The good news is that a verdict of …
