Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Joyce Slaton about girls' clothes. Clothing manufacturers seem to divide girls' clothing into three ages: Infant (up to 1 year), Toddler (1 to 6 years — pretty old toddler at 6, huh?), and Junior Skank (first grade right up to Read more

Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Sara McGinnis about Hilary Duff's birth story. While most birth stories are pages long, fraught with tales of pain and worry, Hilary Duff can sum up giving birth to son Luca in just two little, entirely enviable, words: "Very Read more

Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Katherine Martin about phrases that should never be uttered to a pregnant woman. Pregnancy is one of those times in life, similar to having a newborn, where almost everyone you meet will offer some kind of advice or have a Read more

Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Betsy Shaw about kids and makeup. Hope Perlman survived the moment of mothering girls I dread. In her post for NY Times' Motherlode, she relays the day her 13-year-old daughter begged to be allowed to wear makeup to a Read more

Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Stacie Lewis about handling children's misbehavior. When Cameron Adkins acted out at school for the 100th time, his parents had had enough. They’d tried everything, even boot camp, to correct his behavior. This time, they knew Read more

Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Andrea Updike about toddlers using pacifiers. I have a confession to make. My 3-year-old uses a pacifier when he sleeps. Also? I have no intention of taking it away. We’ve all seen the pictures of Suri Cruise with her Read more

Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Kerala Taylor about bringing sexy back after baby. Last week, when a coworker pointed at my shirt, I immediately started to panic. My first thought: My breasts are leaking. Or maybe I had missed a spit-up stain in my state of Read more

Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Erin Lane about raising girls. Last week I wrote about the five things that worry me about raising my son. This week I’m spilling my guts about what scares me about raising my daughter. There is definitely some overlap. Read more

Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Dr. Gwen Dewar about ideal places to live. Where should I live? I've known this question was coming for a long time, but couldn't do anything about it. I spent the last 18 months fighting my mother's cancer. Now she's gone, our Read more

Here is another great post from our partners at BabyCenter — Kate Carolyn Robertson's article about Jessica Simpson's most recent quotes. For mom-to-be Jessica Simpson, there’s no such thing as "TMI." This is, after all, the same woman who once explained that she only brushes her teeth three times a week "because my teeth are so white, and I don’t like them to feel too slippery . . . My Read more