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How your place in the family rules your life

How your place in the family rules your life

First-born? Piggy in the middle? Or always the baby? Clinical psychologist Linda Blair reveals how birth order in the family can affect every aspect of your life. From the moment you first draw breath, a number of factors are at work to shape your character. Unravelling all of them would be a major undertaking. However, […]
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Mother's emotional tribute to baby born without eyes

Mother’s tribute to baby born without eyes

A mother whose son was born without eyes due to an extreme form of cleft palate has made an emotional video tribute to the baby, saying he is the love of her life. Lacey Buchanan’s one-year-old son Christian was born with Tessier cleft, a rare condition that saw him born without a palate or eyes. […]
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Babies start being racist before they can talk

Babies are ‘racist’ by nine months old

Babies aren’t born racist, but a new study has found that they start discriminating against other races by the time they are nine months old. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts studied 48 Caucasian babies and found that as they got older, they found it easier to interact with white adults than adults from other […]
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Tragic anorexic teen model dies in her sleep

Tragic anorexic teen model dies in her sleep

The pressure to be thin has claimed a young model’s life, with British teen covergirl Bethaney Wallace dying in her sleep after a battle with anorexia. Bethaney, 19, died of suspected heart failure on April 18 after her weight plummeted to just 38kg. The beautiful teen from Newmarket, Suffolk, was 12 when she started modelling […]
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Circumcision 'prevents disease' study finds

Circumcision: To cut or not to cut?

The debate over circumcision is heating up, with new evidence showing it might prevent disease, writes Jordan Baker. Professor Andrew Li circumcises men. About half his patients seek the procedure for medical reasons (infections, pain) and the rest for “personal” — mostly cosmetic — ones. Of the latter, many are marched to the surgery by […]
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True Confessions Agony Aunt: I hate my Stepson

True Confessions Agony Aunt: I hate my Stepson

Visitation with his mother is very much to her convenience, she drives a nice car and lives in a wealthy neighbourhood yet she only pays $100 a month in child support! My husband refuses to remodify the payments because he doesn’t want to cause waves. I can kind of see his point of view, however, […]
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Toddlers in Tiaras mum dances in lingerie in front of two-year-old

*Toddlers and Tiaras* mum models lingerie in front of two-year-old

Just when you thought Toddlers and Tiaras couldn’t get any more controversial, we meet this mum who says her toddler loves lingerie and is a fan of Victoria’s Secret. In one of the latest episodes of the show, which airs on TLC in the US, Oklahoma mother-of-four Tricia explains that she has no problem posing […]
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Alicia Silverstone defends 'mouth-to-mouth' baby feeding

Alicia Silverstone defends ‘mouth-to-mouth’ baby feeding

Alicia Silverstone has defended her controversial “mouth-to-mouth” method of feeding her 11-month-old son, saying it “makes me laugh”. Alicia, 35, was widely condemned when she posted a Youtube video of herself chewing son Bear Blu’s food before passing it from her mouth to his. Related: Is it ever okay to tell your child they’re fat? […]
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Kids can 'grow out' of autism, study says

Autism linked to obesity in mothers

Obese mothers are 60 percent more likely to have a child with autism, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of California, Davis and Vanderbilt University studied over 1000 children aged two to five, some of whom had autism or other developmental disorders. Related: The joys and challenges of raising an autistic child […]
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