Children's Health

Appeals Court Tells Texas Judge that, Actually, Moms Can't Be Fired for Breastfeeding

Congress didn't explicitly reference lactation when it passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978. It merely said that employers can't fire or punish women because of "pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions," which would seem to encompass the postpartum activation of the mammary g ... More >>

This Woman is Really Pissed About Us Using "Piss" in a Headline

Eric's post this morning about the shit storm controversy stirred up by Molly Forthright, a columnist for Fort Worth, Texas Magazine who came down firmly against mothers breast feeding their babies in church -- or pretty much anywhere else -- drew the usual pro- and anti-nip commenters. Yeah, we exp ... More >>

State Rep. Wants Nursing Moms to Be "Modest and Respectful," Inspires Facebook Backlash

There are a couple of bills bouncing around the state Legislature now that would make it easier -- or, rather, make it harder to interfere with -- to breastfeed in public. We wrote about one of them, state Representative Jessica Farrar's HB 1706, which would allow women to sue if prevented from usin ... More >>

Texas Moms Kept From Breastfeeding in Public Could Soon Have the Right to Sue

Michelle Hickman, a Houston-area mother, became Internet famous in late 2011 when she was harassed by Target employees for publicly breastfeeding her infant. That happened despite Target's breastfeeding-friendly corporate policy and a 18-year-old state law that gives women the right to nurse "in any ... More >>

Feeding Is Believing

DISD Cafeterias are Looking Mighty Svelte These Days. Get Ready to Eat Your Veggies Kids.

Were you a lunch line kid? I was mostly, until Smithville ISD put in a "snack line," which allowed the kids who could afford it to eat pizza and french fries every day, while the others went through the line. In retrospect, it was wrong. Every bit of it. I hope they don't still do that. The scenar ... More >>

Holy Crap That's a Lot of Kids: Woman Delivers Quintuplets at UT Southwestern

It happens, on average, 12 times per year in the United States: some lucky woman gives birth to five children, not spacing them comfortably over the course of several years but getting them out all at once. It happened in the span of five minutes in Dallas on Thursday, when a team of 50 doctors, nu ... More >>

Ladies, Start Your Mammary Glands: Dallas is Sponsoring a Syncronized Breastfeeding Event

Back in December, the city of Dallas opened its Community Baby Cafe, which provides resources not for eating young children, as the easily confused might be led to believe, but for nursing them. Research has made the benefits of breastfeeding increasingly undeniable, so the city decided to launch CB ... More >>

Stoney LaRue Does Some Sweet Charity For Cook Children's Medical Center

The country music community of Texas and Oklahoma has been a fantastic supporter of children and their families battling various medical issues. Over the past few years, Ft. Worth DJ Justin Frazell has been a driving force behind the all-star Pickin' for Preemies series of Labor Day concerts, with p ... More >>

Support Kids, Hate Cancer and Gawk At Cheerleaders

The Octopus Project, Lower Dens and More Help Out a Local Family Sunday at Lola's

Cool show/good cause alert. The Octopus Project, Lower Dens, Peopleodian, Carey Wolff, War Party and Doom Ghost are all on board for a very special Sunday show at Lola's. "Fight For Maddie" is an ongoing benefit to help out Patrick and Melanie Higgins, whose five-year-old daughter Maddie was diagnos ... More >>

We Gave The Grape's Brian Luscher a Big Box of Crap and He Made Us a Quail Egg Terrine

The Box. Note the baby food. Yum.​We all know that Dallas chefs are great at cheffing. So we thought it might be fun to give them a chance to show off their chef creativity and skills with a new challenge we'll be calling "The Box." Once a month or so, we'll invite a new lucky soul to attempt ... More >>

A Square Deal

Last Night: Active Child, Com Truise at The Prophet Bar

Active Child, Com Truise The Prophet Bar September 1, 2011 Better than: doing then homework at the local coffee shop Active Child​There's a stark difference between electronic music that is made for partying and electronic music that is made for listening. Last night at The Prophet Bar that differ ... More >>

Active Child, Com Truise

The Babies Will Thank You Later

According to Census Bureau, 4,262,000 Texans Now Living Below the Poverty Line

​This morning, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States report. And while some take issue with how the bureau calculates the poverty rate, the headline are more or less the same: "U.S. Poverty Rate Jumps To 14.3 Percent." The median natio ... More >>

Fitness Model: Oncor Pledges the First Million to Mayor's Youth Fitness Initiative

Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert accepted a million bucks from Oncor to launch the Mayor's Youth Fitness Initiative today, which, first off, will help keep rec centers open.Once they hung the posters for this afternoon's big announcement at City Hall, the suspense was pretty well killed. M ... More >>

Kids Like It Hot and Spicy. No, Not That, You Perv.

Can we get some habanero sauce with those fish sticks, Mom?​Spicy foods, much like bikinis and personal cell phones, aren't just for adults anymore. Young children are increasingly demanding school lunches dabbed with jalapenos and chipotle peppers; dishes on display at the School Nutrition A ... More >>

Top Chef Tell: Baby Food and BS

​This week, Top Chef finally got interesting. That's not to say it wasn't totally bassackwards, but it was almost intense, and I officially started my yelling at the screen. I still haven't gotten the names of all the cheftestants straight, but that time is nearing.At QuickFire, the chefs found To ... More >>

It's a Real Motherlover

He Objects to Injustice

The Rainbow Sign

Dancin'! Dancin'! Dancin'!

Charity Jam

Cowboy Catwalk

Mother's Play

Not the Huxtable

Comic Relief

Stand up to fight children's cancer

Childish Charity

See the ponies run for the kids

Birth Defects

Critics blame poisons from the tie plant for severe birth defects

Laughing for the Cure

Local comics stand-up against children's cancer

Flying High

Nimble Asians are entertaining

Give 'Em the Boot

Tig Ol' Bitties

Mo'Nique introduces a whole new underworld

A Slice of Pizza Face

School lunch competes for student tastes, government dollars

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