Congratulations to Ellen's Mother's Day Giveaway Winner!
Last week, Ellen announced she was giving away every single prize from her Mother's Day Show to one lucky Yahoo Shine reader - and we've picked a winner! Congratulations to Stephanie M. from Kansas, Illinois. Enjoy all your gifts and congratulations on your first baby!

Brooke and EvieIn honor of Food Allergy & Asthma Awareness Week, I've invited Brooke to share her thoughts as a parent of a little daughter with severe food allergies. Feeding Beck is hard enough - I can't imagine also having to consider allergies. Thank you to Brooke for sharing her story so I'm more aware.

Ever since Matt Damon played that hard-to-catch ex-assassin Jason Bourne, I have wished for such specialized skills. It's awesome that he no sooner enters a room than he has observed every detail pertinent to his survival. Then he whoops up on everybody who's out to get him!

Unfortunately, since my daughter was diagnosed with three severe food allergies a year ago, I have had to hone those same skills.

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The mind of a Food Allergy Mom can be a hectic place. When she enters a room, she tries to maintain a look of ease and comfort for her child, be a good listener while greeting her friends, all

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Ready for school! Surprise! Casey's out of town again and I'm a single parent for what feels like the umpteenth time this year. My stint as a single parent will last for nearly two weeks this time around and it didn't get off to a very good start.

Before Casey headed off to Florida for a conference, she arranged for Addie to go to a few friends' houses on certain school days. Some of those friends live in our neighborhood and only require Addie to walk a few houses away from her bus stop with her friends. Other friends require Addie to ride a different bus. Whenever Addie has to ride a different bus, we have to make sure we've either called the school to let them know or we have to send Addie to school with a note.

This time around nobody called the school and nobody gave Addie a note so she could ride a different bus home from school-oops.

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There's no question we as parents screwed up. Casey usually takes care of the notes or the calling of

Uh, here we go: Merida was coronated as the official 11th Disney princess Saturday. Photo: YouTube/DisneyMoms who are celebrating Disney for pulling from its website a controversially redesigned, sexier version of “Brave” princess Merida should hold their horses.

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On Tuesday, Carolyn Danckaert, the activist behind last week’s wildly popular online petition to “Keep Merida Brave,” announced via Facebook news from supporters that "the new makeover version of Merida is no longer appearing on Disney.com." But the controversially modified version of the princess still appeared on Target's Disney princess website, where new product tie-ins are sold. 

“From our standpoint, it’s not a victory,” Danckaert, who has garnered more than 200,000 signatures on her Change.org petition, told Yahoo! Shine Thursday morning.  

It may not have been a victory from any standpoint. 

According to a Disney spokesperson who contacted Yahoo! Shine late Thursday, the controversial image never appeared on the company's official website to

kids surfing the web for adult content

This is not good.

My son turns 6 in a few weeks and I can't for the life of me imagine him digging through the internet for this kind of content. He knows apps, and how to watch his favorite movies. That's it. I think.

Bitdefender, a Hungarian antivirus company has surveyed parents on the web habits of their kids and has found that kids will start watching porn online as early as 6.

What? How in the world does that happen?

Do they click on a link in the archive from a parent or do they actually go out and seek this kind of content?

The survey results, published in USA Today, paint a dramatically different picture of children from just two years ago.

According to 2011 results from the same company, 95% of parents confessed their children had used the internet to access pornography. The parents noticed it during homework time. The kids minds would wander and then - woah, whaddya know - look at what they're looking at.

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The booties. Photo: PA via Daily MailAre these folks milking their talents or what? British sustainable designers Nick Gant and Tanya Dean, of BoBo Design Ltd, unveiled the latest in a growing line of innovative creations today: tiny baby booties made of hardened breast milk, made to promote World Breast Milk Donation Day, which will be celebrated by 24 countries around the world (not including the US) on Sunday.

“Turning waste material like breast milk, which couldn’t otherwise be used, but which is embedded with meaning and personal history, into something new, gives the products created greater meaning and value,” Gant told the UK’s Daily Mail. “We want to show that they can be used to raise awareness and communicate issues about material culture, ethics and sustainability.”

The one-inch booties, which are not for actual wearing, were made through a process that involves gently heating the donated milk, adding vinegar to form curds, and then pressing those curds into silicon molds and leaving to dry over a four-day

8 baby name brainstorming tips!Choosing a baby name can sometimes seem like a daunting task with so many factors swirling about. Will it stand the test of time? Is it too trendy? Too dated? Do the initials spell something embarrassing? The good news, of course, is that if you choose a meaningful name that embraces sentiment, purpose and character, the rest kind of all falls into place. Here's how!

1. Consult your family tree.
Do some digging into your family's heritage and you might uncover some surprisingly great names. (Hint: The 20's generation spawned a particularly adorable set of girl names like Hazel, Ida and Pearl!) Even better? You might uncover some family history gems or interesting facts about your ancestors - all the better to share with your baby someday!

2. Reminisce about your childhood.
What are some of you or your spouse's favorite childhood memories? A vacation to Europe? An afternoon spent with your favorite childhood book? Conjure up a few sentimental memories and brainstorm words that might