HELP WITH ATTENTION DISORDERS
MyBrownBaby contributor Vanessa Bush, who penned Picking Up the Pieces, an essay about her experience dealing with her son’s Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, graciously shared...
On the MBB Menu: Smoked Turkey and White Beans
By DENENE MILLNER Seems like there are more cold days than warm ones lately, and I'm kinda sad that our rib, chicken, pork loin, and...
How Mommy Got Her Groove Back
By DENENE MILLNER Let me just go ahead and put this on out there: I can't dance. I mean, if you put on, say, Stevie...
The Best of Us: MBB Dad Derrick Barnes
We just don’t get enough credit for being the fantastic parents we are, so MyBrownBaby is dead-set on giving credit where credit is due. A...
Neighbors Gone Wild
By DENENE MILLNER He's full of life, my nephew energetic, incredibly funny, frighteningly brilliant, and, at age nine, still comfortable enough in his kid-hood to...
On the MyBrownBaby Bookshelf: Ruby And the Booker Boys. Plus, MBB's First Contest!
Ruby and the Booker Boys: Brand New School, Brave New Ruby by Derrick Barnes and Vanessa Brantly Newton (illustrator) Scholastic Paperbacks Ruby Marigold Booker is...
OUR FIRST FAMILY
By DENENE MILLNER He never talked about it much, my dad. But he's a 70-something black man, born and raised in the seat of the...
A HAIR-RAISING EXPERIENCE
By MEERA BOWMAN-JOHNSON A week before my daughter's dance recital, her instructor, Miss Debbie, pulled me aside. We're asking that all the girls wear their...
FROM THE MOUTHS OF BRILLIANT BROWN BABIES
Look, we live in Georgia, okay? People love them some John McCain here, and go out of their way to let Obama supporters know it....
DENENE GIVES EXPERT ADVICE ON THE TODAY SHOW
As most of you well know, I’m the Reality Check columnist for Parenting magazine, and on occasion, I’m asked to serve as an expert on...
Green Gobble-‘Em-Up Goblin Cupcakes
There’s no trick to making these ghoulishly cute Goblin Cupcake Halloween treats. A box of cake mix, a little green food coloring, a few chocolate...
I'll Always Love My Mama
By DENENE MILLNERI'm not sure what made me think about her today. I was in the grocery store, smelling the over-priced strawberries when my mother...
Read A GOOD Book
In case you missed it, the New York Times ran a perfectly ridiculous story on it's cover yesterday, extolling the virtues of lining our public...
MOS DEF FOR PRESIDENT!
I’ve long had a jones for the rapper Mos Def, whom I met years ago when I was an entertainment reporter for the Daily News....
Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself
Welcome to the new MyBrownBaby, the blog for parents who love their brown babies, by moms who do the same! In the short time since...
