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The ultimate guide for campfire and bonfire safety for kids

Kids can enjoy the kind of fires you build for fun—with the right safety precautions.

Updated Oct. 14, 2021
viral feta pasta

Here’s how to make that viral feta pasta healthier so you can feel really good about it

These healthier spins will make you feel better about trying the tasty trend.

Updated Feb. 14, 2022
doctor doing a COVID test on a little girl

Children are now being hospitalized for COVID in record numbers

The number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States hit a record high of just over 1,900 on Saturday.

Updated Sep. 30, 2022

Watch this mom use ‘chicken cutlets’ to get baby to take a bottle in viral TikTok

Want to know how to get your breastfed baby to take a bottle? Watch this TikTok and prepare to LOL!

Updated Oct. 26, 2022
collage of books by BIPOC authors

17 books by BIPOC authors you need to read now

Diversify your library and support authors of color at the same time.

Updated Feb. 15, 2022

16 must-read books to look out for in 2021

These 2021 book releases have your to-read list covered for the rest of the year, mama!

Updated Aug. 16, 2021

Mom goes viral for calling out school’s ‘masks optional’ policy while upholding sexist dress code

"Since you made the mask policy optional, I intend to opt my daughter out of the dress code. Please make note."

Updated Sep. 30, 2022
mom on oxygen giving bottle to newborn baby

Healthy Florida mom dies from COVID-19 just days after giving birth

"She never got sick, and we assumed like many people that this would just go away just as quickly as it came," her uncle said.

Updated Sep. 29, 2022

Simone Biles says she’s ‘very much pro-choice’ AND supports the foster system

The Olympics superstar is also a foster child herself, and says she believes in a person's right to choose when it comes to abortion.

Updated Oct. 01, 2022
Mirsada Muric and daughter at the hospital

Mom begs people to take COVID seriously as her 9-year-old fights for her life

"Look at my child!" she wrote on Facebook. "THIS is why people are afraid. THIS is why people beg for you to wear a mask."

Updated Sep. 30, 2022

Kim Kardashian says body-shaming during her pregnancies ‘killed’ her self-esteem

"I can't believe that this was acceptable and that this was okay," she said on Kristen Bell's podcast.

Updated Sep. 28, 2022

Watch Ashton Kutcher + Mila Kunis hilariously prove they DO bathe their kids, actually

Kutcher and Kunis show they're good sports after breaking the internet last week over how often they bathe their kids.

Updated Sep. 30, 2022

Homeschooling turned out to be my self-care

For this single mom and her son, homeschooling solved issues they didn't even know were there.

Updated Oct. 21, 2021

Kim Kardashian admits she’s bad at ‘saying no’ to her kids like the rest of us

Raise your hand if you give into your kids more than you should. Oops.

Updated Jan. 06, 2022

‘Male’ and ‘female’ labels should be left off birth certificates, says AMA in new recommendation ️‍

The AMA says that assigning sex at birth "perpetuates the view that it is immutable and fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity."

Updated Oct. 14, 2021

Mom of triplets shows massive stockpile of breastmilk she’s produced in viral TikTok

"Never doubt a determined mother," she captioned the video.

Updated Oct. 01, 2022

Ashley Graham admits that ‘bounce back’ culture affected her first pregnancy

But the soon-to-be mama of two says she's relinquishing control of those worries this time around.

Updated Oct. 02, 2022
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