Archive for the ‘Children’ Category
Reality TV & Kids: A Big No-No
Posted by: Christine on: October 19, 2009
- In: Children| Television| Writing
- 2 Comments
This past Friday, it seemed like everyone was fixated on the “balloon boy,” the little boy who supposedly took off in his father’s giant weather balloon but was found hiding in the family’s attic. Come Sunday, and we find out the entire thing was a hoax perpetrated by a fame-hungry father, Richard Heene, who [...]
5 Teen Stars Your Kids Love (But You Hate)
Posted by: Christine on: August 26, 2009
My latest on Momversation: Annoying Teen Stars
Top 10 Most Disturbing Kids’ Movies
Posted by: Christine on: July 27, 2009
- In: Children| Movies
- 2 Comments
Check out the top ten most disturbing kids’ movies ever made.
Are you having kids?
Posted by: Christine on: April 16, 2009
- In: Children| I'm Weird| Wedding| Women
- 3 Comments
Are you having kids?
Is that an appropriate inquiry for an engaged woman? I’ve been asked this question numerous times since I announced my engagement, and it strikes me as way too personal… like I’m being asked where my bodily moles are located.
If I answer no, then the obvious question comes up: “Why not?” And it’s [...]
The New Dora
Posted by: Christine on: March 16, 2009
- In: Children| Television| Women
- 2 Comments
This new “tween” Dora perpetuates that stereotypes that to “grow up,” a girl must give up her tomboy ways and be stereotypically pretty. Crikey, I even hate the word tomboy.
All right, kids, finish this sentence: It looks like the only thing Dora is exploring now is __________________.
Baby Love
Posted by: Christine on: February 16, 2009
First, we have Nadya Suleman, OCTOMOM! Now, we have Alfie Patten… um, TINY DAD!
What’s weird and awful and gross about stories like these are the media reactions. When a kid is simultaneously treated as a freak and a viable father, the message is certainly mixed. And let’s face it, a child of [...]
Octomom’s Belly
Posted by: Christine on: February 13, 2009
I am so grossed out by Nadya Suleman’s deformed 8-baby belly.
Adolf Hitler Campbell. Nice.
Posted by: Christine on: December 16, 2008
- In: Children| Idiots| Racism
- 5 Comments
I sound like Judge Judy, but here goes: You get zero sympathy from me. Zero.
Am I REALLY supposed to care that a store refused to give you an Adolf Hitler Campbell cake? Really? Shouldn’t I be about 14,000 times more appalled that YOU NAMED YOUR KID ADOLF HITLER?!?!
And why did the [...]
Stage Mothers
Posted by: Christine on: July 1, 2008
Today, I went to a casting for a print job. I was going for “Mom,” which I always seem to be the youngest person in the room (or youngest looking, anyway). They were also casting kids at the same time, which is always a study in the Stage Mother.
As the kids whine, roll [...]
Child abuse?
Posted by: Christine on: May 13, 2008
- In: Children| Documentary| Eew| Video
- 1 Comment
I’m not a big fan of breastfeeding to begin with. I wasn’t breast fed, and I’m absolutely (mostly) fine. Heh. But I do support a woman’s right to breast feed, even in public (again, not my thing, but whatever). Well, except when the child is 8 years old.
Disturbing… and [...]
