Jeanne Sager

I have strung words together for Kiwi Magazine, Babble.com, AOL, Parents Magazine and more. I live in upstate New York with my daughter, husband, dog and too many cats.

Though my daughter is officially an elementary schooler, I'm pleased to report I've yet to give in to the curse of the appliqued mom sweater. Small victories, people.

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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Make Out in Front of the Kids -- Don't You?

posted by Jeanne Sager 51 minutes ago in Big Kid

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Well, it turns out celebrity parents are just like us! At least when it comes to grossing out their kids! Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt recently got a request from 8-year-old daughter Zahara Jolie-Pitt to lay off the smooching in front of them!

With a daughter set to turn 8 in just a few weeks, I'm waiting to hear the same thing out of her mouth. But will I listen to her? Not on her life!

And neither should Brad and Angie! At least not if they know what's good for their big brood?
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Heartbreaking
Teen Dies of Cancer After He's Too Embarrassed to Tell Mom He'd Found a Lump

posted by Jeanne Sager 2 hours ago in Teen

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When was the last time you sat your teenager down for a talk about his or her private parts? Ohhhh, you think they're too old for that? This might change your mind: a teen died of testicular cancer this month. He was just 16 years old.

It's tragic. And sad. And it all could have been prevented.
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Rant
There's No Such Thing as a 'Fat' Baby

posted by Jeanne Sager 2 hours ago in Baby

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Do you ever read something that makes you cry hot, angry tears? Jessica Grose's story about defending her "fat" baby did that to me this week. The mother of a little girl born in December recently encountered one of my biggest pet peeves: people who comment on a baby's weight.

For Grose, a woman telling her not to "worry" because her baby would "grow out of" the chubby stage triggered a discussion on the dysfunctional dialogue about body size. As a recovering bulimic and mother of a daughter, I'm right there with her.

But that's just one facet of the discussion of babies and weight that makes me ball up my fists and want to scream. It's dangerous for babies!
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Twisted
Convicted Pedophile Found Dead But Girl He’s Suspected of Kidnapping Is Nowhere to Be Found

posted by Jeanne Sager 4 hours ago in In The News

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A convicted pedophile and suspected abductor has been found dead. Ready to cheer? Hold your applause. Because before Michael James Klunder was discovered, cops say he kidnapped two girls. A 12-year-old escaped, but 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard is still missing. With Klunder's death, the cops have little to go on to find the missing girl.

Sadly, that's just the beginning of the tragedies surrounding the 42-year-old's mysterious death.
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This Just In
Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Friend Killed by FBI in Strange Twist to Boston Bombing Case

posted by Jeanne Sager 5 hours ago in In The News

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It's been more than a month since the bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and things were finally settling down. Were, that is, until we woke up this morning to news that a man named Ibragim Todashev, thought to be a friend of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had been killed by an FBI agent during an altercation in Florida.

That sense of security that had washed back over you as the headlines shifted away from the Tsarnaev brothers and back to Kim Kardashian's shoes? That's gone now, isn't it?
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