Tokidoki Barbie with its pink hair and tattoos isn’t the first doll to make parents angry. In an effort to keep up with the times and engage girls with new products, Mattel has made some... Read more >>

Barbie, the quintessential all-American girl, turns fifty-two on March 9, 2011. She’s kept quite busy over the years, holding more than 120 different careers, fostering more than fifty pets,... Read more >>

Growing up, we all had our favorite toys. But the one that seemed to be in every little girl’s collection was the Barbie doll. Our mothers didn’t buy them for us because of their blond... Read more >>

Late summer with school just around the corner for my seven-year-old, Miss C, I felt compelled to jump on the bedtime routine bandwagon since any semblance of a routine went to hell in a handbasket in... Read more >>

I never gave much thought about having built-in shopping buddies when we had two little girls. But both girls seem to have inherited both my love of Target and shoes. Yes, there is a God and he... Read more >>

I’m a stepmommy. I have two wonderful, super awesome stepchildren. In fact, they may be the coolest stepkids ever. One is a three-year-old boy, and the other is a six-year-old... Read more >>

Stifler’s Mom: “I got some Scotch.” Finch: “Single Malt?” Stifler’s Mom: “Aged eighteen years. The way I like it.” from American Pie Once... Read more >>

I’m definitely no toy snob. If you look around our house you’ll find your various and sundry plastic toys: Polly Pocket and her microscopic stilettos, enough My Little Ponies to start a... Read more >>

Apparently it is Barbie’s fiftieth birthday and pundits across our nation are opining on what Barbie has meant to generations of women, good and bad. Critics argue she has skewed our body... Read more >>

In celebration of her 50th, Cougar Barbie shows the boys some fun. Watch this video >>