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12 Days of Gifting, Day 7: The ‘Cool Auntie’ Guide
Fun fact: I am a proud auntie and godmother, as well as a fashion writer. This means the bar is set pretty high for gift-giving each holiday season, much to my chagrin. And admittedly, sometimes, I strike out—like last year, when, at my sister’s request, I gifted my then two- and five-year-old niece and nephew…
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It Must Be the Shoes: Super Heroic Can Bring Out the Hero in Every Kid
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a shoe! Rarely do the words “innovative” and “adorable” occupy the same space, but we just learned about something that is both: New children’s shoe line Super Heroic has arrived to save the day—or, in this case, save the play. Five years ago, Chicagoan Jason Mayden was a…
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8 Things Parents With Little Kids Are Up On That Other People Don’t Talk About at Brunch
To have children is to wade into a world of acceptable and appropriate programming and household items. Long gone are the days of blasting 2 Live Crew’s “Me So Horny” at 9 a.m. to get the blood flowing. Nope, now it’s tossing a kid an iPad and praying they’ll sit there quietly for at least…
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I Think My 1-Year-Old Son’s Pacifier Is His Homeboy
Parents, stop me if you’ve heard any of this before. Of my three children, my youngest, Rome, is by far the biggest spark plug. He’s a living, breathing 100 emoji. When he’s asleep, we take pains to make sure he sleeps as long as possible, shushing any and everybody in the vicinity making noise—not because…
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AfroArt: Immortalizing a New Generation
A few weeks ago, the fashion world swooned upon learning that Rihanna would be a host of the 2018 Met Gala, themed to coincide with the Costume Institute’s upcoming exhibit, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Imagining how “Bad Gal RiRi”—first of her name, currently ruler of three simultaneous covers of Vogue Paris (and…
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I've Pretty Much Stopped Drinking. Asterisk.
In 2009, I became a parent to a beautiful daughter. She is the light of my life. From 2010 to 2015, I lived two very separate lives: Daddy PJ and Partyin’ PJ. When I’m with my daughter, I’m on my Ps and Qs; I don’t even drink when she’s with me unless her mother is…
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‘No Chill Gil’ Is Back: Arenas Claims He’s Hidden Money From Ex-Wife
Well, that didn’t take long. Looks as if Gilbert Arenas has found the cash for his kids’ private school; apparently he was hiding it from his ex-wife, Laura Govan. No Chill Gil, as he’s known on the Instagram streets, took to Snapchat to post snippets of his children counting thousands in cash. “Lucky for me…