By: Amber Leventry That’s not normal. Can you just act normal? It’s totally normal. Fitting in can be no easy task, especially if we and our children are always trying to live up to normal standards. But what does it mean to be normal anyway? Author Tara Lazar explores this question in her newest children’s […]
By Alex Temblador You hear it sometimes: “I want my kids to be raised in diverse environments.” It’s an easy thing to say, but another thing to do. For one, it’s sometimes difficult for parents to find diverse environments, especially those that live in small towns or cities with a mostly homogeneous population. For other […]
By Miriam Genao As parents, all we want is the best for our children. We want them to excel in any and everything they do. It’s my job as their mother to make sure that happens. I envision certain things for them based on their personalities, athleticism, and talents. My oldest child is José. He’s […]
By: Nichole Sand/Lift Off to 30 We all witnessed history on Tuesday evening when Hillary Clinton was named the first female presidential nominee of a major political party. This means that only men (44 of them to be exact) have represented our country as our commander-in-chief since 1789- that’s over 225 consecutive years of male […]
By Alex Temblador With Hilary Clinton in the running to be the next president of the United States, it’s a perfect time for Mattel to release their newest Barbie — Presidential Barbie and Vice President Barbie. For this project, Mattel, the creators of Barbie, partnered with SheShouldRun, a non-profit that inspires young girls and women […]
By Kelly Morris/The Seattle Lesbian Of Arizona’s Department of Child Safety (DCS) 19,000 children in foster care, it’s estimated that 10 percent are LGBT. One foster group home is taking on a pilot program by taking only LGBT teens. In Laveen, Ariz., Jennifer Redmond runs a group where only LGBT foster teens live. It’s been […]
Doc McStuffins is a popular Disney Junior show that parents, kids, and families love for a variety of reasons. It features an African American family with strong female family members such as a mom who is a doctor. The father is a stay-at-home dad and there’s also an adoption line within the show. The New York Times […]
Running a lemonade stand is a right of passage for most young children, but three four-year-old boys stepped up their game and took the lemonade stand to a whole new level. Last weekend at the NYC Pride, Sam, Finn, and Dean, four-year-old boys, opened a lemonade stand to raise money for the victims of the […]
By Alex Temblador Conferences are held around the world as meeting places for people within the same industry or those with the same experience. Conferences for LGBTQ youth are few and far between which makes Models of Pride so amazing. In a recent YouTube video, the Los Angeles LGBT Center shows why Models of Pride […]
By Alex Temblador Though your daughters may love Disney Princesses, a recent study found that they may negatively impact young girls in different ways. Family Life professor Sarah M. Coyne of Brigham Young University took 198 preschoolers — both boys and girls — and studied their interactions with Disney Princesses in terms of toys and […]
