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10 Ways to Celebrate Father’s Day with Your Family (Plus Gift Ideas He’ll Actually Use)
Father’s Day doesn’t have to be a big production. Sometimes the best moments are the small ones—wrapped in laughter, or silence, or messy pancakes on a tray.
10 Parent Types You’ll Find at Every Kids’ Sports Game
As the mom of two athletic teenagers (and a former competitive swimmer myself), I’ve been to a lot of kid sports games. Baseball. Soccer. Basketball. Swimming. Water Polo. And although the sports activity and venue may differ, I’ve come to realize there is the same set of parent “types” sitting in the stands at every […]
Children, Sex, and the 2015 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover
Forget about banning Fifty Shades of Grey. Believe it or not, an even more disturbing and sexually deviant communiqué has probably already entered your home or your kids’ Instagram or FaceBook accounts. Yep, I’m talking about that glossy February perennial, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. If you have not seen it, here’s the 2015 visual: […]
Our Sports Heroes Are Criminals
For years crimes against children have been perpetrated. For years domestic violence has existed, but not until our sports heroes were revealed as perpetrators has it caused a national media storm like it has right now. Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, and Adrian Peterson are just some of the athletes who have been revered and looked […]
When Sports Parents Go Too Far…
It has finally come to this: a parent has sued a sports coach for not playing his child more frequently.Perhaps this will go down in American parenting history as definitive proof that we have all totally lost our minds.I am surprised this didnt happen earlier, actually. And that the lawsuit originated in Texas, not New York City, where parents pay professionals to coach their children for kindergarten interviews, or my hometown of …