Thousands of people have been reacting to a new video posted online of a four-year old Chinese boy, nicknamed Duoduo, being forced by his father, He Liesheng, to run outside in the snow while stripped down to only his undies and shoes. He has coined himself the “Eagle Dad” due to his “no pain, no gain” parenting philosophy, which he claims to have developed in order to make his prematurely born son stronger, reports CNN.com.
Reading my fellow bloggers’ farewells these past two weeks, I feel a little like a character at the end of an Ocean’s Eleven movie. We’re all moving on with our families and careers and Parenting.com is evolving and changing. After five and a half years and around two hundred and fifty posts, I’m taking down my shingle at The Parenting Post, a blog I was a founding writer of. I’m taking down my shingle, that is, until they decide to call the gang back together for our next impossible heist.
Results published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that babies as early as six months old can understand and differentiate between generic words that refer to categories. Researchers tested 33 babies by tracking their eye movements while being shown images of two objects. A parent would ask about one of the objects, and the results showed that the babies were more likely to fix their gaze on the correct picture.
Remember the “Human Barbie” mom Sarah Burge, who gave her 7-year-old daughter a certificate for a boob job for her birthday? For Christmas, what could top that—except a $11,000 voucher for liposuction?
With 2011 coming to a close, YouTube’s official blog is taking a step back to reflect on the most-watched videos that had the world talking, sharing, and hitting replay.
When 25-year-old Adel Charles drove herself to her last pre-birth check-up, she crossed and fingers and hoped for everything to go smoothly. When the mom-to-be left her clinic, she got bad news of a completely different kind. According to Scotland’s This Is Croydon Today, the police officer writing her a ticket saw her coming out of the clinic but gave her the ticket, saying she should’ve “waddled faster.”
One of the best ways to get a gauge on the buzziest topics of the year is to see what people searched for online. Who had the most popular baby bump in 2011 according to search engines?
Thanks to the flashy and unexpected debut of her belly at the MTV Video Music Awards, Beyonce topped the list of most-searched-for pregnant celebs, according to Yahoo!. Here’s the rest of the list: