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The Today Show’s Modern Wedding That Isn’t Really

The Today Show is hosting a contest, Today’s Wedding: Modern Love! TODAY is throwing a modern day wedding! Whether your love blossomed over the Internet or you met the old-fashioned way, we want to hear from you! touts its Facebook entry page. It’s a seemingly sweet idea- you and your significant other can enter to win a wedding on the Today Show and you get a free honeymoon!Awesome!Right?Well, sure, if you’re heterosexual.

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The Party’s Over, Now the Real Work Begins. Ugh!

With six children, I have found it to be very time-efficient and cost-effective to have more than one birthday party in a day. It makes for a day of chaos, but I have to rent only one jumping thing, one snow-cone machine and one cotton-candy maker, and we get to celebrate a few birthdays in one fun-filled day. My daughters Moira, now 9, and Elspeth, now 7, and my son Finn who turned 5, have birthdays close together, and the other day was birthday party day. We had just said goodbye to the last of what seemed like 1,000 party guests, all of whom ended up inside because of the rain. The big day was a success, and I could finally relax and put my feet up. WRONG!

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Are You Poisoning Your Child with Food Dyes?

Do you feed your child Froot Loops and other foods containing coloring and dyes? Then, you NEED to read the rest of this article. Weve always been told that food coloring is harmless and that it just makes foods look more appealing. But, in fact, it is a harmful poison that has the potential to damage your child in various ways, from neurological issues to cancer. These accusations come from a new research report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a non-profit consumer watchdog organization.

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Pop Culture Mama Talks to Allison Winn Scotch

New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch is having the time of her life. Her new book – The One That I Want – just hit bookstores on Tuesday. Perfect for summer reading, The One That I Want, is a Redbook magazine June book pick and made it onto Cosmo and Glamour magazines’ hot summer reading lists. Winn Scotch is also riding high these days thanks to the movie adaption of her previous novel Time of My Life the break-out book of her career. She talked with ModernMom’s Pop Culture Mama about her new book and the latest on the movie.

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Gosselin Kids Cleared for Mom's New Show

It looks like we’ll officially be seeing the Gosselin twins and sextuplets on their mommy’s new show “Kate Plus 8”. “Each child is individually permitted, and they need to be renewed every six months,” said spokesman Troy Thompsom of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.While the Gosselins and show producers have maintained that the kids’ appearances on the show did not merit work permits, the state of Pennsylvania deemed them necessary …