Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade’s daughter Kaavia James proves kids say the darndest things — and we’re living for it Celebrity parents, they’re just like us! Gabrielle Union‘s 3-year-old daughter, Kaavia James, called out her mom’s bad breath in an hysterical Instagram video posted Tuesday evening, proving kids truly tell it like it is. Mom’s ego be damned. In the video, Kaavia tells Union to check her breath before the actress asks, “Is that ’cause my breath stinks?” “Yeah,” Kaavia answers, matter of factly. “It be your own kids ,” Union captioned the video. “@kaaviajames is something else ..read more

The Talk co-host tested positive for coronavirus on Feb. 24 and will be quarantining at home with her 2-year-old son After two years of chaos, confusion and the constant threat of losing tenuous childcare arrangements, most parents have reached their breaking point. But The Talk co-host, Dancing With The Stars competitor and fitness guru Amanda Kloots has set high expectations for herself during her COVID-19 isolation — and we’re impressed. Kloots, who announced her positive coronavirus test result on Feb. 24, plans to potty train her 2-year-old son, Elvis, while in quarantine and suggests tha ..read more

Depending on how soon Pfizer submits the official request, young kids could be eligible this month For so many parents of young children, the news they’ve been waiting for is nearly here: Pfizer-BioNTech is expected to ask the FDA to authorize emergency use of their COVID vaccine for kids ages 5 and under as early as today. If this emergency authorization is granted, it will make children ages 6 months to 5 years old eligible to receive two doses of the vaccine — as early as the end of February. This age group, which is the only one still not authorized for a COVID vaccine, could be eligible b ..read more

There’s arguably nothing cuter than a toddler in sunglasses. When their tiny, adorable faces rock a rad pair of shades, they instantly turn into a very cool person you want to grab coffee and a croissant with. But aside from sunglasses being awesome, they also serve an important purpose — to protect your toddler’s eyes from the sun’s harmful UV rays. (Sunglasses for babies are just as important.) Dr. Bradley Katz, professor and neuro-ophthalmologist at the University of Utah Medical Center and CEO of Axon Optics, tells Scary Mommy that “the lens in a toddler’s eye allows up to 70% more UV rays ..read more

You went out (or stayed in) and had fun — but now you have to pay the ultimate price of being hungover with your kids running around We are good people. We take such good care of our children the vast majority of the time. But every once in a while — maybe on our birthday or New Year’s Eve or book club night — we have to cut loose a little bit, just for the night. It’s so much fun, it’s so needed, and those strawberry daiquiris/IPAs/four glasses of wine tasted so wonderful at the time. What a glorious, necessary, magical night, in which we almost remembered what it was like to be young and chi ..read more

The trial results are a disappointing setback that will likely delay an approved vaccine for younger kids Pfizer-BioNTech announced on Friday that the low-dose COVID-19 vaccine they are testing on kids under 5 is not creating a significant immune response in children between the ages of 2 and 5. In other words: The trial didn’t work and they will have to go back to the drawing board. This is not good news for the parents of young kids who have been waiting patiently for a vaccine for their toddlers. In the ongoing clinical trial, researchers are giving kids from 6 months to 5 years a dose that ..read more

As a parent, it’s natural to want what’s best for your kids — including making sure that their social, physical, emotional, and verbal development is right on track (or at least relatively close). At the same time, one of the learning curves of new parenthood is understanding that every child develops at their own pace, and that the average age associated with certain milestones is exactly that: a statistical average. Though these averages can be a helpful tool in figuring out if your child is an outlier (on either end of the spectrum), raising kids isn’t a mathematical formula. (If only!) Whe ..read more

If you have a child over the age of 3, more than likely you have sat through a nonsensical knock knock joke or two. You’ve watched your kids laugh at the strangest cartoons. And I am certain you have said to yourself “I have no idea why they find this funny.” Kids indeed have the weirdest sense of humor. And up until recently, we didn’t have much of a timeline as to when they started to develop their own little sense of the things that make them giggle. A recent study conducted by a group of psychologists, called the Early Humor Survey (EHS), aims to give parents a grasp on just that. And you ..read more

Those who want to gate-keep who gets their precious Halloween candy are missing the entire point It’s been a rough couple of years, hasn’t it? Last Halloween, we were still in the throes of a pandemic with no vaccine yet available and all kinds of question marks about whether it was even safe for kids to be out trick-or-treating. This year, while a number of stubborn folks remain unprotected, millions of Americans have gotten vaccinated and we have the likes of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the head of the CDC telling us it’s finally cool to let our kids head out on a candy-collecting mission thi ..read more

The “terrible two” stage, up to today, was an unknown territory for me — as my oldest completely skipped that stage and we only went through a little “three-nager” attitude and sass phase. But when my son turned two, everything changed. I mean everything. My little baby was no longer toddling around and being shy. My two-year old was now climbing, running, jumping, screeching (very loudly, I may add), and saying NO to everything. I was now tackling a baby alligator while changing diapers and negotiating with a two-year old for what seemed to be everything. And so it began: the terrible two sta ..read more