Daughter on Shine

Advice From Real Moms: How a five-year-old taught her mom to chill.

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I watch my daughter sitting, smiling, in the middle of a merry-go-round. She throws her head back and squeals, "Faster, Mommy. Faster!" I'm dying to say, "Oh, but you'll get dizzy and feel sick!" Instead, I grin over my clenched teeth and say, "OK! Is this fast enough?" and give her another spin.

Dad Mad After Daughter's Scar Is Airbrushed from Photo

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Murphy’s law says that if your child is going to get bumped, bruised, scratched, or the impulse to suddenly cut their own hair, it’s going to happen in that seven day period before school picture day.

Always the Quiet Ones

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Like a lot of babies, when my daughter Roxie was still in her first year she had a certain reticence around strangers. At the time, we chalked it up to separation anxiety otherwise known as "please don't pass me to Granny or Grandpa or I'll scream my head off."

All Around the World

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Two years ago, passport and frequent flier number tucked in her diaper bag, our four-month-old daughter, Eloise, wound through the cobbled streets of Fez, Morocco strapped to my husband's chest. Slabs of raw meat hung from butchers' stalls and the smell of freshly dyed leather and Moroccan spices filled the ancient walled city. Our little "worm," as my husband, Brian, calls her, craned her neck to absorb the scenes. Women and children kissed her cheeks and hands in the market. And like the mysterious Islamic call to prayer sounding overhead, we experienced something spiritual — sharing our passion for travel with our infant daughter. By the end of her first year, we had hit Morocco, England (twice), and Cameroon. Despite our excitement over our baby's adventures, we caught grief from friends and family about dragging our infant around the world.

Fathers be good to your daughters; daughters will love as you do

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Week-ends at a detox center are usually pretty quiet,

Barring any new intakes.

This one wasn't.

Fathers be good to your daughters; daughters will love as you do

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Father's be good to your daughters;

Daughters will love as you do

By Charlie G

Week-ends at a detox center are usually pretty…

Mike Tyson opens up about daughter's harrowing death

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In an interview that was both riveting and unsettling, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson--famous for his allegedly abusive relationship with ex-wife, actress Robin Givens, as well as the 1997 comback fight that ended with him biting off the ear of opponent Evander Holyfield--talked about…

It's Almost Cotton Pickin' Time

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"Don't take it too hard", he said to me, about his death. He knew it was going to break my heart. We had this way about us, Father and daughter. No words needed to pass. Such comfort, I fear, I will never know again.

Moms mean business

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by Vicki Larson (Around the Watercooler - Mommy Tracked)

Forget about father-son businesses; although that’s the model still ingrained in the American psyche. Mother-daughter businesses are the new black. I have no idea how they do it; honestly, most women I know have such complicated relationships with their mothers without having to worry about ordering, restocking and bookkeeping, it’s a miracle they still talk at all.

But it seems sort of romantic to go into business with someone you love and know so well; who better than a mother, father, sibling or husband to work with? Whenever a big-box chain store threatens to move in to our neighborhood, we tend to rally around the tiny mom-and-pop store that we’ve been shopping at for years. We love mom-and-pop- run businesses — they make up more than 80 percent of the nation’s companies. And although we often see them through rose-colored glasses as the cozy diner on Main Street or the quaint B&B somewhere in Maine, many are Fortune 500 corporations.