Photo: laurenashley_, Flickr I talk to my mom every day — several times a day. It makes me happy. According to new research, it might make me healthy, too! Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reveal that just talking to your mom on the phone has a powerful effect on reducing stress. It’s even better [...]

Photo: Lara604, Flickr On Fridays, we list the links we love and point to the hot topics at our favorite sites. Forget brown bags for school lunches. Go with Fluf bags instead. They are so cute — and organic, and washable, and rinsable, and wipable, and only $17.95 each. Anna Quinlan tells a great story [...]

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Photo: mcclave, Flickr Did you know that the American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends that all children under age 2 be in a rear-facing car seat? Might not have worked that way for your older kids, but it you have a wee one right now, then this is the rule you should follow. You could [...]

Photo: greenkozi, Flickr On Fridays, we list the links we love and point to the hot topics at our favorite sites. The Pill just turned 50! ParentDish is talking about it, and so is Time magazine. Tubes tied, but you want more kids? MomLogic shares a story of one mom who had her tubes UNtied. [...]

Photo: cohdra, morgueFile Researchers have been speculating that obese kids are bullied less nowadays, now that so many are so overweight (currently, about one-half of kids are obese are overweight). The researchers, however, were not right. Seems according to one study, heavy kiddos are 63% more likely to be bullied than those of normal weight. [...]

Photo: dno1967, Flickr On Fridays, we list the links we love and point to the hot topics at our favorite sites. Gotta feed baby on the road? Lil Sugar offers nine tips for breastfeeding while on the go. Ever heard that your pregnancy diet can affect the long-term health of your children? Well, you might [...]

Photo: gadgetdude, Flickr You probably know that fast food is pretty darn unhealthy, right? Seems the toys that come with kids’ fast food meals are bad for the body, too. So bad, in fact, that a Santa Clara board of supervisors approved a proposal to remove toys from meals with more than 485 calories and [...]