Binz, Germany restaurant Oma’s Küche—“Grandma’s Kitchen”—might sound family-friendly, but that hospitality doesn’t extend to children under the age of 14 after lunch time. Oma’s Küche owner Rudolf Markl told DW.com that, fed up with parents who can’t control their kids, he recently instituted a…
The school year got off to a bumpy start in Richmond, Missouri, where Dear Elementary school posted the following new policy on its Facebook page:
Two public schools in the pricey hamlet of New Canaan, Connecticut saw their lunchroom profits decrease, even though student enrollment remained steady. Now authorities may have found the culprits: Sisters Joanne Pascarelli, 61, and Marie Wilson, 67, “have been charged with one count of first-degree larceny for…
I read with interest this story about a Memphis mom whose teenage daughter had to have her gallbladder removed. The mom is blaming the copious amounts of spicy snacks, like Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and Hot Takis, that the girl would eat, taking large bags of chips to school with her. The PR arms of those companies were…
As obesity plagues more and more children, health officials are trying to come up with plans to help kids eat healthier. Like eliminating cartoon characters from sugary breakfast cereals in the U.K., for example. Also, some cities have eliminated sugary drinks from kids’ menus, only permitting flat, sparkling, or…
There are not enough sanitizing wipes in all the Costcos in all the world to combat Jell-O’s new product, Jell-O Play. USA Today reports the company is launching the line of molds and cookie cutters aimed to make kids play with their food even more than those filthy rugrats already do.
All parents have lofty goals before the baby actually arrives. These future kids will only listen to cool music, they will never watch Elmo, they will be open to a variety of different foods. Then the baby arrives and Kidz Bop, “Elmo’s World,” and an all-beige diet featuring chicken nuggets all manage to surface…
This was a surprising statistic to my colleague Kate, who doesn’t have kids. I thought it was surprising too, but because the number sounded too low: Fatherly reports that parents eat 13.5 percent of their meals standing up or on the go, resulting in 156 meals per year consumed vertically.
As a parent, I expect to get seated in the least desirable parts of the restaurant when I’m out with my family—near the kitchen or bathrooms, away from the windows; this especially happened a lot when my kids were younger. I imagined the servers flipping coins to see who was going to have to take the twins table. I…
Parents know how hard it is to avoid the Disney conglomerate as it seemingly aims to invade every aspect of our kids’ lives. Movies, TV, and now Pixar has returned to McDonald’s Happy Meal toys: It’s hard to avoid those mouse ears even if your kids wanted to (and they don’t).
Many parents find themselves in the McDonald’s drive-through from time to time, or making a stop at a McDonald’s Playland to enjoy the free wifi while their kids frolic on a plastic playground. These parents are grateful for the healthy options attempted to be inserted in the McDonald’s Happy Meal (even if the kids…
The Gerber baby is one of the country’s best-known marketing images; the picturesque infant has graced the packages of the popular baby food since 1928. Earlier this decade, though—with the original Gerber model, Ann Turner Cook, now 91—the company started running Facebook contests to pick the new Gerber baby.…
It’s come to this: A principal in Coatesville, Pennsylvania has found that middle-school students will finally detach themselves from their phones... if plied with ice cream.
You kids don’t know how good you have it. I, in my thirties, am not that much older, but in high school we had to insert quarters in a dirty machine to call our parents! Our video game controllers only had two buttons—jump and fire! Like it was the fucking Stone Age.
Every modern parent knows the struggle and constant conflicts involved with what seems like a fairly natural process: feeding their child. Breastfeeding or bottle? When should you start solid food? And, when the kids get a little older: What can you do with a picky child who refuses vegetables, short of force-feeding?
