The most dedicated coach of the year award goes to: Amber Branson -- the high school girls' basketball coach who coached a tournament game on Friday, gave birth that night and was courtside again the next day. Hopefully the team was able to pull out a victory for her after she showed that kind of loyalty.
Hey! I thought we got the extended warranty on this kid. One couple is suing their adoption attorneys for $5 million because they weren't informed about the serious health problems of the child they adopted. Should children up for adoption be declared "as is"? How much of a "buyer beware" attitude do prospective adoptive parents need to have when entering the process?
Sometimes it feels like mothers have to apologize for their choice to become moms, or for leaving a career to stay home with their kids. The message seems to be, "Yes, it's an important role, just please downplay it as much as possible so we don't think you're boring." Much has been made of moms not wanting to lose their personal identity to motherhood -- notably, this week there was the mom who left her kids for six months to take a job in Japan. So, here's one for the moms who say, "Yes, I left my career to be with my child. I own it and I love it." Oh, and by the way, people who want moms to shut up about their kids -- the stories of your office politics and triathlon-training tales aren't nearly as fascinating as you think they are.
More teens practicing abstinence! More parents of teens wondering what else they should fret over now that they don't have to worry about their kids having sex.
Great, first the Chinese were better moms than us, now the Canadians are lording their superior parenting over us too. Maybe it's not so much that they're better parents so much as they're better to parents than we are. Our neighbors to the north not only have better maternity leave policies (but really, who doesn't?) but now we find out that since Canada banned BPA (bisphenol A) in 2008, they have half the amount of the toxic substance in their bloodstreams that we do. Just think of all those healthy little Canucks racing off to hockey practice without worrying about what's in their sippy cups, eh?