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Opinion: Is Tweeting Our Family Tragedies the New Normal?

by Amy Hatch, Posted Mar 10th 2010 5:07PM

There is a little girl named Layla Grace who died yesterday. She had cancer, and I followed this 2-year-old's downward spiral from the time she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma 10 months ago. Layla Grace was not my neighbor. She was not my ...
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Gay Kids Tell Their Stories in CRISIS

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 29th 2009 2:00PM

When I first started reading CRISIS: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay In America, I did not expect any great revelations. Having grown up in San Francisco to become an outspoken supporter of ...
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Denis Leary makes asinine comments about autistic children

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Oct 17th 2008 11:02AM

When this newsbite from our colleagues at CeleBitchy made its way into the ParentDish inbox, I swear it seemed familiar. I thought for sure we'd recently written about Denis Leary making ridiculous comments that children with autism were actually ...
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Preparing for a daughter

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Aug 11th 2008 1:01PM

As many of you may know, I have a sixteen-month-old-son. When I first became pregnant I never thought whether I wanted a boy or a girl. I was simply thrilled to be having a child at all, and wanted only a happy, healthy child--the sex of the baby ...
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Engaged and underage

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Aug 6th 2008 2:00PM

As you may be aware, MTV has a show on the air called Engaged and Underage. Now in its second season, the show follows young couples headed down the aisle--couples family and friends think are too young to be doing so. Last year's season ...
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Avoiding tweener sarcasm

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Oct 24th 2007 9:48AM

Sarcasm and pre-teens. The two seem to go together like Mills and McCartney. More and more often these days I hear about some mouthy kid telling off his or her mom or dad...and the child isn't even thirteen years old. I remember when I was a ...
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Some college degrees worth more than others?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jul 30th 2007 9:02AM

All college degrees are not created equal. At least at some universities, where skyrocketing professor salaries, expensive equipment and lack of general tuition increases have resulted in premiums on certain degrees. According to this New York Times ...
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