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"Daddy Daycare" and Other Misconceptions

Samantha Kemp-Jackson | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Census Bureau, Child Care Fathers, Fathers Babysit, Fathers Babysitters, Fathers Child Care, U.s. Census Bureau

You can't babysit your own kids. That's fairly obvious.

At least in the case of women, or so it seems.

Apparently those in possession of the double-X chromosome are the only ones that are the true "parents" of their children; men are merely "caregivers," if you believed the U.S. Census...

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Is Your Marriage in a Bad Mood?

Debra Macleod | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Relationship Advice, Marital Advice, Marriage Advice, Marriage Problems, Money Problems, Relationship Tips, Relationships

As a couples' mediator, I see many serious relationship problems in my office: Emotional and physical affairs, money battles, divided loyalties, blended families, loss of attraction to one's spouse, conflicting expectations and priorities -- the list goes on. These whoppers can make it a challenge to get a marriage back...

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How to Deal When You're "Undateable"

Colette Kenney | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Am i Pretty, Dating, Dating Advice, Dating Advice For Women, Dating Tips, How To Get a Date, Love And Relationships

Dear Colette, I've been online dating for a few years now and I'm sad to report that I haven't had all that much luck. And these days I'm finding it really hard to stay positive because not only are the men I'm interested in not interested in me, but when...

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Popcorn Isn't All it's Popped Up to Be

Rose Reisman | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Microwave Popcorn, Healthy Popcorn, Make Your Own Popcorn, Popcorn Nutrition, Popcorn Nutrition Info, Unhealthy Popcorn

"Unadulterated" popcorn has to be one of the healthiest snacks we could consume. Here are some of the nutritional facts:

• This whole grain contains over 40 nutrients including all the B complex vitamins, vitamin E, riboflavin and thiamine
• It is high in fibre and contains heart-protecting phytonutrients...

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Getting Ahead of the Vitamin D Revolution Curve

Bill Sardi | Posted May 24, 2012

No question, doctors and patients are now joining the vitamin D revolution in large numbers. More and more doctors are ordering tests to determine vitamin D blood levels and more patients are reading about the positive benefits of vitamin D in news reports. There have been more than 3,000 published...

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A Walk a Day Keeps the Depression at Bay

Marc Berman | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Dealing With Depression, Depression Fresh Air, Depression Walking, Fresh Air Depression, Walking Depression, Walking Helps Depression

Can interacting with nature be therapeutic for individuals with major depressive disorder? In a recent study published in The Journal of Affective Disorders, my collaborators and I found that individuals who were diagnosed with major depressive disorder gained some therapeutic benefits after taking a 50-minute walk in nature...

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Losing Weight Doesn't Mean Losing Your Sense of Responsibility

Timi Gustafson, R.D. | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Advice Weight, Advice Weight Loss, How To Lose Weight, Loss Weight, Weight Advice, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Advice

Managing your weight is a health issue, period. It has nothing to do with being attractive or sexy or being able to wear certain types of clothing -- although some of these perks can be great motivators. Staying within your healthy weight range has much greater value in and of...

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How to Learn About Schizophrenia

Susan Inman | Posted May 24, 2012

Even though Schizophrenia Awareness Day is limited to May 24th, Canadians are exposed to education about schizophrenia all year long. Every time they read a gruesome news article about it, or have a difficult encounter with someone with an untreated psychosis, they receive confusing knowledge. It creates the kind of...

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The Moment I Knew I Needed More Sleep

Arianna Huffington | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: The Moment I Knew, Amount Of Sleep, Benefits Of Sleep, Health Benefits Sleep, Moment i Knew, Sleep, Sleep And Health, Sleep Benefits, Sleep Health, Sleeping, Video

The moment I knew I needed more sleep was four years ago, when I learned the value of sleep -- the hard way. I'd just returned home after a week of taking my daughter on a tour of colleges, and the ground rule was no BlackBerry during the day, so...

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Single Women Aren't All Career-Obsessed Workaholics -- Surprise!

Melissa Jeltsen | Posted May 23, 2012

Read More: Being Single, Living Alone, Married, Single, Single Life, Single Women, Singleton, Singletons, Video, Women Living Alone

Single women are scaling back their careers in their 30s -- not because they are bogged down raising families -- but because, well, they just feel like it.

At least that's the claim Sue Shellenbarger made in a recent Wall Street Journal article. According to Shellenbarger, overworked career-focused...

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Public Transportation: People at Their Worst

Kelsey Malenchak | Posted May 23, 2012

Read More: Bags, Common Sense, Etiquette, Good Citizen, Manners, Public Transit, Rude, Rudeness, Social Issues, Subway, Toronto, Ttc

Walking the streets of a big city, you begin to notice how there is a lack of common sense around you. Or maybe it's the lack of everyday respect and kindest in our modern world. I'm not a bitter person but there are some things that have really begun to...

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My Son Takes a Punch, My Heart Takes a Beating and Everything I Learned in Between

Janell Burley Hofmann | Posted May 22, 2012

Read More: Growing Pains, Growing Up, Adolescence, Anti-Bullying, Boys, Bullying, Kids Playing Sports, Parenting Struggles, Parents, Parents-Kids, Parents-Moms, Parents-Teens, Raising Boys, Teenagers, Youth Sports

It is a warm spring Saturday night. My oldest son wants to hang out at the Little League fields for the late game after his own. This is something he does often and just loves. My husband and I both have fond memories of time spent at the baseball park...

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HuffPost Royal Diary UPDATED: An Insider's Playbook for Royal Watchers

Julie Blais Comeau | Posted May 22, 2012

Read More: Canada Honours And Salutes, Charles Camilla Royal Tour 2012, Duchess Of Corwall, HuffPost Royal Diary, Prince Of Wales, Royal Tour 2012

Huffpost's etiquette expert, "Sticky Situations" columnist Julie Blais Comeau, is on the Royal Tour and will be filing regular dispatches from behind-the-scenes.

Wondering how the press tour is organized, and what it's like to be a part of HRH Royal Media Watch? Here's a behind-the-scenes guide to...

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Tools for Creating a Meaningful Life

Ira Israel | Posted May 22, 2012

Read More: Authenticity, Gps-Soul, Living a Meaningful Life, Living With Meaning, Meaning In Life, Meaning Life, Meaning Of Life, Meaningful Life, Mindful Living, Mindfulness

I have many clients -- mostly artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers -- who come to me with existential questions. For them, I compiled a list of tools for creating a meaningful life:

10. Be a citizen of the world. Know as much as possible about what is going on in...

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Slummin' it at the Cannes Film Festival: How to Crash a Yacht Party

Ashley Peoples | Posted May 23, 2012

Read More: Cannes Parties, Amanda Seyfried Cannes, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival 2012, Film Festival Cannes, Red Carpet Cannes

On Friday night, I met four wonderful Brits, screenwriters, directors and production managers, also staying at the campground. They have a couple of films in the Short Corner (a marketplace for short films where you pick from a catalogue of about 2,000 films from around the world and view them...

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20 Celebrity Couples Who Have Been Married 25 Years ... And Beyond

Pat Gallagher | Posted May 21, 2012

Read More: Love Post 50, Older Celebrities, Post 50 Celebrities, Celebrities, Celebrity Couples, Celebrity Marriages, Hollywood Marriages, Old Celebrities, Slideexpand

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan kicked off the wedding season this past weekend with their surprise nuptials in the backyard of their Palo Alto, California home. Since they met in 2004 at Harvard, well before Zuckerberg earned his billions, we're pulling for them to celebrate decades of wedded bliss one...

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Dispatches From Down East: Losing My Children

Lori Gard | Posted May 21, 2012

Read More: Prince County Exhibition, Prince Edward Island, Animals Eat Yoiung, Children Losing, Children Run Away, Losing Children, Parenting Children, Run Away Children, Young Eat Animals

A half year ago, we bought tickets to attend the Prince County Exhibition in western Prince Edward Island. As part of the tour of the grounds, our family went inside the small animals barn. We all looked into each pen, yelling with shrieks of delight over each new exhibit. The...

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My Son, Myself: A Father's Cross Country Journey With a Son He Doesn't Understand

Lisa Belkin | Posted May 20, 2012

Read More: Buzz Bissinger, Father's Day Book, Friday Night Lights, Adults With Special Needs, Children With Special Needs, Oxygen Deprivation At Birth, Parentry, Zach Bissinger

Gerry and Zach Bissinger were born three minutes apart in 1983, and those minutes made all the difference. They arrived nearly three months early; while the fact that either survived defies medical odds, Gerry, the oldest, was left with no impairments, while Zach, the youngest, was deprived of oxygen while...

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What's Behind Emotional Overeating?

Lisa Firestone | Posted May 20, 2012

Read More: Addiction, Diet, Emotional Binge Eating, Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Emotional Wellness, Lisa Firestone, Nutrition, Obesity, Overeating, Self-Esteem, Stop Emotional Eating, Weight Loss

Last month, Michelle Obama made a special guest appearance on the long-running hit TV show The Biggest Loser. I'd heard about the show's premise: Contestants who struggle with obesity and often face serious health risks relocate to a fitness ranch, where together they learn about nutrition, diet, and exercise, while...

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Time (Magazine) to Move On

Minnow Hamilton | Posted May 20, 2012

Read More: Time Magazine, Attachment Parenting, Charity, Cottagedream.Ca, Party, Savvymom, Wall-Stickers

Even though it feels like old news already, I can't ignore the headline grabbing Time magainze cover controversy. But there was so much more that caught my attention this week -- like cottagedreams.ca, Savvy 'momisms', parties and wall stickers.

1. If you haven't...

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