Parents who find the Shadow of Mordor in your kid's video game consoles can prepare to be angry. (And good news, not at your kid!) Rather - for this moment, anyway - you can direct your scorn to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, which paid important YouTube influencers - most likely the same influencers your kid turned to when deciding [...]
Bentonite Me Baby - a medicinal clay babies could ingest - was found to contain dangerous levels of lead. Bentonite Me Baby - a clay that was supposed to be safe for our babies to ingest and wear on their skin - was found to contain dangerous levels of lead, according to the Food and Drug Administration. In [...]
Cell phone bills are on the rise, but here's how to shrink them. It's not clear whether we needed our nation's top economists studying this issue, but a new government report proves what most of us can surmise after glancing over at our kids: cell phone spending has drastically increased over the past seven years. We managed [...]
Your kid may be cute and mean, but law school is expensive and may not reap the highest paying returns. In today's installment of "Expensive Educational Investments to Carefully Consider" we highlight the returns of law school. Everyone knows that lawyers are cool and get to wear suits and are paid to be mean to other people [...]
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Here's over 100,000 reasons you shouldn't feel pressure to buy a bounce house for your kid's party. At the risk of deflating anyone's party plans - and by "anyone" I refer to our tiny friends under age 7 -- it's worth wondering whether our bounce house rental money wouldn't be better spent on, well, absolutely anything other than a bounce house [...]
These are among the deadly diet pills that can pierce holes in your stomach. Let's talk about all the infuriating aspects surrounding latest round of diet pill recalls. In case you have been so busy with your New Year's resolution dieting -- or money-saving or private-fuming because it's so hard being nice to people -- to notice, two major diet pills [...]
It's not a new year without resolutions, but we have to be careful before we go buying things we hope will help make us better parents. Because with the following corporate co-pilots bringing us their products, we'll save more than our money by not buying their help. #NotBuyingIt This water bottle from Pottery Barn was found to [...]
The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood is not impressed with the way "Hello Barbie" spies on our kids. While kids get excited about the holiday gift-giving extravaganza, toy companies are salivating. Sure, store shelves are lined with hundreds of products designed for fun, but some game-makers managed to sneak in a few ways to spy on our families, [...]
Kids who play sports grow up to make more money and now we know why. But we also know your kid doesn't have be the star player - or even on a varsity team - to reap the adult financial rewards that childhood sports can offer. Lori Wolk, a mother of three in Parkland Florida, has always [...]
