Blog Posts by Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine

Nadya Suleman (left, fighting adult film star Amy Fisher during the With her home in foreclosure and plenty of bills to pay, Nadya Suleman -- better known as Octomom -- is saying that she'll consider doing what she once swore she'd never do: pornography.

"I don't even give a crap if people think I'm a hypocrite," the 36-year-old mother of 14 -- including a set of octuplets -- tells CNN's "Showbiz Tonight." "If the opportunity comes up, I'm going to eat my words. Because all that matters is that I take care of my family."



On Friday, Suleman filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, listing assets of about $50,000 and debts of about $1 million. Her home is due to be auctioned out from under her on May 7. Desperate to pay the bills -- she gets about $2,000 a month from the state of California, but that money can only be used to buy food -- in March Suleman posed nearly nude for the European magazine "Closer" for about $8,000. The photos immediately went viral -- something that Suleman says took her by surprise, in spite of the fact that she knowingly posed for

First Lady Michelle Obama greets participants following a women's online outlet roundtable on Yahoo! Shine senior editor Lylah M. Alphonse and her 7-year-old daughter, Alanna, joined first lady Michelle Obama and a handful of others for a discussion about fitness, friendship, role models and more this week. Given that it was also Bring Your Child to Work Day at the White House, the kids offered up questions of their own, and the conversation yielded some great advice on growing up. Here are the highlights.

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Being the first lady is a surreal experience, she told Alphonse's daughter. "I feel like Michelle, like I've always felt. But now I have this work to do," she said. "So I'm just trying to make sure I do good work. Because you're not First Lady forever, you're First Lady for a short period of time -- so that when we're done, I want to make sure that the time I spent here, I helped some people, so that when it's time for me to move on and be something else, I'm

Football isn't the only sport where kids are getting hurt more often.A new study released this week shows that about 1 in 3 kids who play sports get hurt badly enough to need medical attention.

The study, commissioned by Safe Kids Worldwide and Johnson & Johnson, analyzed data from 516 children ages 8 to 18, 750 parents, and 752 coaches. Among the injuries sustained by these young athletes: concussions, broken bones, dehydration, and more.

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But what's truly frightening are the misconceptions that many parents and coaches have about when a child is too hurt to continue playing. In spite of the fact that catastrophic head injuries and concussions are on the rise around the country, more than half of coaches surveyed said that a certain amount of head contact -- described in the survey as "getting your bell rung" or "seeing stars" -- was acceptable during games and practices.

"The concussion issue is a really big one," Kate Carr, President and CEO of Safe Kids Worldwide, told Web MD. "The mantra should

Letting your toddler slide down alone may be safer that riding down with her in your lap.When your toddler is clamoring to ride down the big-kid slide at the playground, most parents assume that the safest thing to do is put her on your lap and ride down with her. But orthopedists say that doing so puts small children at risk for broken legs -- and it happens far more frequently than you'd think.

Parents may not notice when their child's shoe catches on the side of the slide for a second or two, but that, combined with the speed at which the parent and child are zipping down the slide, can create enough friction to break the child's shin bone (tibia). Instead, what parents do notice is that at the bottom of the slide, instead of laughing with joy, the child is whimpering or screaming in pain.

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"My wife was just trying to keep Hannah extra safe and make sure she didn’t fall,” Jed Dickman told the New York Times. His 18-month-old daughter's sneaker snagged on the slide, and by the time his wife freed it the child's tibia

First lady Michelle Obama speaks to children in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 26, 2012, during a celebration of the
At Thursday's official Take your Daughter or Son to Work Day event at the White House, first lady Michelle Obama paired an iridescent, peach-colored, pleated hounds-tooth skirt from J Crew with a sparkly knit shirt "from Target or something," she told Yahoo! Shine. A pair of bronze-colored flats and a beautifully embroidered cardigan topped off the outfit. "The cardigan is special," she said with a smile, hinting at its high-end origins. (Shine's fashion editor, Joanna Douglas, recognized it as one of the first lady's often-worn favorites, a classic L'Wren Scott design.)

First lady Michelle Obama greets children in the East Room of the White House in Washington in celebration of the What's it like to live in the White House? What would you change about being the first lady? Do you really like gardening? The Obama Administration marked Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day by inviting about 200 children to the White House for a morning filled with activities. The event was capped by a special session with Michelle Obama in the East Room, where the elementary-school aged kids peppered her with questions.

The kids -- all of whose parents are employees of the Executive Office of the President -- started the day by taking the same Oath of Office that their parents' did when they started working with the White House. Then they toured the building, and took turns meeting with members of the Secret Service, the Council on Environmental Quality, and even official White House pastry chefs.

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But one of the biggest highlights came at the end of their visit, when they trooped into the famous East Room to chat with the first

After sending his son to school wearing a wire, Stuart Chaifetz found out that his son, Akian, was being bullied by his teachers.When his 10-year-old son, Akian, started getting into trouble at school, Stuart Chaifetz was stunned. The notes from Horace Mann Elementary School in Cherry Hill, N.J., said that Akian, who has autism, was having violent outbursts and hitting his teacher and his aide -- behavior that the boy had never exhibited before.

"I could not understand why this was happening," Chaifetz, a 44-year-old animal rights activist in New Jersey, wrote on his website. "I had never witnessed Akian hit anyone, nor could I dream of him lashing out as had been described to me."

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In October 2011, he met with Akian's teachers and school therapists. A behaviorist was called in, but during several classroom visits he didn't see Akian become violent. "He tried to create a scenario that would push Akian so far that he would lash out," Chaifetz explained. "And Akian did not."

"If Akian was pushed and didn't do anything, what was setting him off?" his dad

Is drinking alcohol-based hand sanitizer the new teen trend?Six teenagers have ended up in San Fernando Valley emergency rooms recently with symptoms of alcohol poisoning. But the illicit alcohol didn't come from their parents' liquor cabinets or from illegally purchased beers. These teens got drunk -- and dangerously ill -- drinking hand sanitizer.
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They're not drinking the gel straight from the dispenser. Some of the teens reportedly used salt to isolate the ethyl alcohol in the disinfectant, turning the gel into a shot of something like liquor; others go online to find distillation instructions. Since most hand sanitizers are 62 percent to 65 percent ethyl alcohol, the drink distilled from it can be as high as 120 proof. (In contrast, a standard shot of vodka is about 40 percent alcohol, or 80 proof.)

"All it takes is just a few swallows and you have a drunk teenager," Cyrus Rangan, director of the toxicology bureau for the county public health department and a medical toxicology consultant for