Just For Fun Articles

“What in God’s name gives you the audacity to think that you could possibly be parenting material?”

ProudParenting.com blogger - Carrie Smith - is a writer who exposes a funny side to lesbian and gay parenting. Carrie examines all corners of this new frontier in her blog called Way Out Parenting.

KidsHealth.org shares a great recipe for the best tiny pizzas. This is a snack you can make with your kids. And - with 9 grams of protein, only 4 grams of fat, and 34 grams of carbs - it's a smart snack. It takes about 15 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 1 standard-sized bagel, cut in half
• tomato sauce
• shredded mozzarella cheese
• toppings like diced green pepper, chopped onion, or chopped tomato (whatever you like)
• seasonings like oregano, basil, and pepper

Joan Garry, former executive director of GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has always been an inspirational activist and hands-on mom. Lately she's been working on a blog with her 18-year old daughter, Sarah (also known as Scout). The website is called Who's The Grownup? - and its premise is engaging.

In this crazy DVD for kids and parents, Dottie is a mom who gets lonely when her partner leaves to take their son for his first day of school. To cheer up Dottie, her son gives her a gift: a sweater with huge, dotted pockets.

When Dottie reaches into the sweater's pockets, she pulls out handfuls of magic glitter! She sprinkles the glitter around and her living room is transformed into a funhouse filled with new friends to keep her company during the day, including a flower, a beaver, a mouse, a singing can. Dottie even talks to the wall!

The producers of Buddy G provided a guest post on the Family Equality Council Blog, January 23rd.

The post helps us understand the producers' frame of mind while creating something totally original from scratch:

"How did we make Buddy G? We closed our eyes and ears to those who said we couldn't do it, and we threw our caution and money to the wind."

Cookie magazine features a home makeover story about a family outside of Philadelphia, living in a 1683 colonial-style building. The family consists of Chris, Oscar, and their son, Lucas, who was born in June 2006 via surrogate.

The family moved into the mansion - named Point Reading - in 2003 and began it's restoration immediately.

The Online Community Report recently interviewed Joi Podgorny - an expert in the subject of online communities. Joi's area of expertise is Tweens and Children - and she's worked the past decade building and managing safe, online communities for kids.

Unless you have a small child you may not know that thousands of children are already online. And many sites offer entertainment, education and "kid-friendly chat" to kids four and up.

In the first exhibit of it's kind, the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum presents 51 species of animals exhibiting homosexuality. The display is called "Against Nature?"

"Homosexuality has been observed in more than 1,500 species, and the phenomenon has been well described for 500 of them," said Petter Bockman, project coordinator of the exhibition.

Casey, from Dancing on the Edge, writes about a last-minute escape to the ocean for her family.

She says her partner walked in the house that morning and said, "It's such a beautiful day! Want to go to the beach for the weekend?" Casey weighed the getaway against her Moms Night Out bowling event and the beach won out.

It sounds like the weekend went well - including carousel rides, bumper cars, window shopping, and arcades.

According to recent data released from the Census Bureau, there are now more unmarried households than married in the U.S. The percentage of households that were married-couple families with children under 18 decreased from 23.5 percent in 2000 to 21.6 percent in 2006.

Writer Tina Dupuy describes the phenomenon as,