By now you've probably seen the controversial Gap Kids ad featuring pint-sized performers in Le Petit Cirque. In the image, a white girl rests her arm on the head of a black girl.
Instead of dutifully sucking it up, the eighth grader penned an articulate explanation of why she refused to do her homework - which was to figure out her body mass index (BMI).
Milk. It does the body good, but what kind should you opt for? For years now we've been told to lower the fat intake in the dairy we consume. But that advice may need an overhaul, following a study published in the journal Circulation.
Reading a snippet from a recent GQ interview with Charlize Theron reminds me of that old commercial. You know the one, where the woman says, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." Yeah, that commercial always irked me.
Well, decades have passed, and here is Theron, doing just that - lamenting the impact her ravishing beauty has had on her acting career.
As Cyndi Lauper famously said, "Girls just wanna have fun." And fun - according to the parks and rec people in Richmond Hill, Ont. - is narrowly defined as scrapbooking, baking and getting manicures. At least those were the activities proposed in their Girlz Rock camp.
Da Boyz, on the other hand, are promised a more "extreme" agenda, including rollerblading, biking, swimming and playing ultimate Frisbee.
It can be hard when your child leaves home for the first time. The empty nest is real. And it goes both ways. One mom made sure her son didn't miss out when he went abroad to study.
Show of hands who's excited about this amazing collaboration between the Goliaths of all things kid! Lego has joined forces with Disney to create a collection of 18 new minifigures of all the classics, including Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Peter Pan, Maleficent, Ariel, Aladdin, Stitch, Buzz, and Mr. Incredible.
Flying is a just fancy version of purgatory, isn't it? The latest horror saw one passenger shame another on social media for inventing "a whole new way to be awful at 35,000 feet." The culprit: the woman in seat 22B. Or her ponytail, more specifically.
For some reason Summer Grant was the only child inside the inflatable when high winds pulled out he ground stakes and carried the castle 150 metres across Essex's Harlow Town Park. The girl suffered multiple injuries and later died in hospital.
For the third year running, the candy company planted some 9,000 treats in fields for children to find. Organizers sensibly separated the hunts according to age group, so that wee ones wouldn't be competing with older kids for the free goodies.
Can you believe it's been over a decade since the last instalment of Bridget Jones. Well, our favourite bumbling British singleton is back on the big screen - and she's having a baby.
Judging by the trailer that previewed on Ellen, Bridget (aka Renée Zellweger) is up to the usual shenanigans. She finally has her career in order, she's still single and loving life. However, all hell breaks loose once she pees on the stick.
If you thought getting your body back after baby was tough, spare a thought for Stephanie Rothstein Bruce. The 32-year-old professional runner from Arizona is training for the next Olympics. And the struggle is real.
Babies take an awfully long time to hatch. So what's a mama-to-be to do in between all those excruciating contractions? Well, you could do your makeup.
