Every black-clad, chain-smoking SoHo gallery owner and martini-lunching, town car-riding hedge fund manager started out life as a chubbly, freckle-faced kid from South Dakota.
If you have children but have yet to learn anything about the terrifying story of a Manhattan nanny who stabbed two children in her care before slashing herself, rest assured, you will learn plenty in the coming days from fellow parents. They'll whisper to you on the playground. Did you hear about the nanny stabbing?…
Here is the best video you will see from an entire weekend of Olympic sports: U.S. gymnast Aly Raisman's parents reacting to her bar routine during today's team qualifiers (Raisman scored a 14.166). Dear NBC: for training your cameras on this, everything is forgiven. This is what I look like when I watch Olympic…
Bicycle handlebar ribbon Zooey Deschanel looks like her mother.
If being a weirdo is a heritable trait, Trent Arsenault is making the world a much stranger place. He's a self-fashioned "free sperm donor," bestowing his super-powerful seed on needy couples. But the FDA wants to shut him down.
A U.S. Attorney in Tenn. has been forced to remind parents not to buy or sell lollipops that have been spat on or licked by children with infectious diseases like chicken pox. So much for the "free market" in Barry Soetero's America, eh?
There's a new Android app out (here's the English version) called "Is My Son Gay?" in which one can answer an easy series of questions ("Are you divorced?") that will tell you if, in fact, your son is a gay person.
Did Fox News host a momentary feminist triumph today? Why, yes, I think it did. Megyn Kelly invited blowhard radio host Mike Gallagher on her show, and played back audio from the time he scoffed, "Megyn's still on maternity leave, isn't she? Boy, what a racket that is." Select excerpts from the verbal pillaging:
You know when a little kid sees a pregnant lady drinking a glass of OJ, and he's like "No! The baby will drown!" Turns out he's kind of right. The mother-to-be is drowning her baby in flavor, and it will impact the baby's palate forever, a new study finds. NPR reports:
You know how when you went to house parties in high school, the host would always say, "Don't go into my parent's bedroom, otherwise I'm dead"? Well! Tyler Hadley, 17, was arrested for murdering his parents and then hiding their bodies in the master bedroom while he threw a 60-person party.
Everyone who came of age in the post-cell phone era had a friend whose parents called them every five minutes to "check in" and/or yell at them about cleaning their room. Stop doing that, parents: You're hurting your relationship with your kid.
Facebook has been taking heat for letting kids under 13 use Facebook. So, people should be absolutely freaking out about this four-month-old fetus whose parents signed her up on Facebook and friended dozens of people.
In 2009, the Cerdas, a Las Vegas family whose two daughters suffered from immune deficiency disorders, appeared on the reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Their old, moldy house was torn down, and new one, designed to protect the young girls, was built in its place. But as it turns out, the Cerda girls may…
Bravo debuts its latest reality program tonight, Pregnant in Heels, which follows the life and work of a "baby concierge" named Rosie Pope. I was completely prepared to hate this show, but I had no idea it would be this awful.
Divo extraordinaire Elton John is doing double duty on Saturday Night Live tonight by serving as both host and musical guest. The most surprising thing about John's monologue—besides his dressed-down look—was his knack for some parenthood-related stand-up comedy!
Amy Chua, author of the Wall Street Journal's much-maligned "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," did a Q&A about her heinous child-rearing techniques. She swears she isn't that monstrous. Watch the "tiger mother" do her best impression of a harmless kitten.
All that was once private is now public. This morning, a video of Miley Cyrus taking bong rips with buddies appeared online. And now, Billy Ray Cyrus discovers the video and chides his teenage daughter—also online.
This week, we shed a tear for Audrina Patridge—twice. Once for being voted off DWTS, and again when someone filmed her mother's 5-minute long drunken rant in which she called Lauren Conrad a "pissy little fashion shit." Cringe.
Has your dad ever embarrassed you? OK, how about this: has your dad ever embarrassed you by overtaking your Justin Bieber-themed performance video and shaking his groove thang all over the room as you and your sister observed in horror?
