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    Mira Jacob, Shine staff

    Mira Jacob, Shine staff

  • On Lisa Ling's new website, women find ways to cope with tragedy

    "I felt more like a failure than I'd felt in a very long time," Lisa Ling explained on the View last Friday, regarding the miscarriage she suffered six months ago. "We actually [hadn't] been trying that long. I don't know that I took it as seriously as I should have because it happened so fast. But

  • Angie Harmon on the best parenting advice she ever got (and then passed on to us)

    It's that time of the year when the little people have the sniffles and give them to the rest of us. Advil's solution? Teaming up with actress Angie Harmon for the Relieve My Fever campaign, where you can go online to RelieveMyFever.com and enter a video of you and your child, or children, singing t

  • First ever MRI scan of live birth

    Charité Hospital in Berlin has taken the very first MRI images of a baby being born, reports The Local.

  • The absolute best holiday advice of all time, no joke

    Who better to tell moms how to keep it together than other moms? This month, Shine's Parenting Gurus blew us away with their totally helpful, sometimes snort-worthy advice on getting through the holidays with most of our brains intact. Here's a short list of our favorite suggestions:

  • Reality television jumps the bear: "Kate Plus 8" goes camping in "Sarah Palin's Alaska"

    In the downward spiral that has taken reality television audiences from semi-plausible storylines to "what the hell am I filling my head with" shows, news like this shouldn't be surprising. And yet here we are, mouths agape, wondering which TLC executive was raised to demigod status after producing

  • Girl goes from 0-10 in 85 seconds

    Oh, viral videos and the funny feelings they unleash! This morning's clickfest comes in form of "Natalie"--an infant who becomes, via (almost) daily photographs, a toddler, then a kid, then a pretty girl on the verge of the hell that is preteendom. Okay, the last part is totally my version of realit

  • Santa: harmless fantasy or horrible lie?

    Okay, a confession: My biggest job perk, not counting working from home, comes from all of you. When I see trouble coming up the road, or in this case, down the chimney, I have an instant focus group to tell me the pros and cons of what I'm looking at. And what I'm looking at right now is the chubby

  • Sports training for 6-month-olds?

    Well, parents of newborns, don't say you didn't know better. While those of us with "older kids" (like my two-year-old) might have squandered our chance to turn those chubby thighs into the future hamstrings of the next Beckham, a new parenting trend reported by the New York Times has you right in l

  • "Eats on Feets" helps moms share breast milk

    What do you get when you combine Facebook, newborns, and good ol' fashioned supply and demand? Welcome to "Eats on Feets"-an organization launched to help moms who have trouble producing breast milk find other mothers with milk to spare. Recently taken global by mother and "lactivist" Emma Kwasnica,

  • The best of the Thanksgiving crafts for kids

    I have a dream about Thanksgiving crafting with my son. It involves turning pine cones into turkeys, fashioning construction paper pilgrim hats, and using cornstalks to great effect. I also have a two-year-old who turned my dream of "taco night" into an orange meat smear on the wall yesterday, so I'

  • Tips to make travel with kids (a little more) enjoyable

    It's that time of year again, when we breathlessly shuttle our family into cars and planes in an effort to get them to a turkey on time. While no one can guarantee you stress-free travel, these are a few tips to help you enjoy getting there :

  • Couple asks strangers to vote on their abortion

    You know how sometimes asking a question leads to an answer you might not be ready for? Well, such is the case with Pete and Alisha Arnold, a couple from Minneapolis who have decided to ask anonymous strangers (i.e. the internet masses) if they should abort their child.

  • Study finds kids with siblings are less happy than those without

    Children with siblings are less happy than those without, a new, wide-ranging study in Britain reports. Studying over 100,000 people in 40,000 households, the findings, which will be published this Friday by the Economic and Social Research Council, suggest that kids with fewer siblings were happier

  • Bristol Palin and The Situation get awkward about sex

    Okay, listen, I am all for any kind of announcement that helps teens understand their options when it comes to sex, but seriously, using Bristol Palin and The Situation together in an ad for abstinence and safe sex? C'mon. These two make as much sense together as pickles and pearls, which is to say,

  • Failure is impossible for high school students! (No, really)

    What would school have been like if you never had to worry about getting an F? Students at West Potomac High School in Alexandria, Va., are about to find out, the Washington Post reports.

  • Record a Story makes a good book better

    I'm a book addict, and to some extent, a purist-the kind who flinches my son's books come with too many bells and whistles and directions. Why try to make a book better? Isn't the whole joy of reading the simplicity of it? So you can imagine my surprise when I ended up loving a new line of books cal

  • Photographer take pictures of what kids draw

    Why didn't I think of this? Oh yes, because I'm not an artist or a photographer. And yet that doesn't stop me from really loving these incredible photographs by Korean artist Yeondoo Jung, who takes kids' drawings and turns them into awesome, crazy, magical photographs. Apparently, he's even collect

  • Panic attacks, post-baby bodies, and other things we're strangely thankful for this Thanksgiving

    Oh, Thanksgiving. Here you come again with your turkey cooking tips and onslaught of family-not quite as grandiose as the December holidays, but strangely potent in what you make us think about.

  • Would you use a “homework helper”?

    Just when you thought the price of having kids couldn't get any higher, the New York Times lets you know that the Joneses (or the Sternberg's in this case) have started employing "homework helpers." Filling a hybrid role of organizer/ babysitter/ motivational coach, homework helpers focus less on su

  • New Disney Channel aims to teach kids…social values?

    For anyone who learned their ABCs and 123s from PBS, the idea of educational television isn't so much a novelty as, well, what moms did when we were growing up, and what they continue to do, as each generation finds it's own Sesame Street. But according to the New York Times, Disney is about to up t