Easy Bake Oven For Boys: A Black Dad Explains Why His Son Won’t Be Getting One
By JAMAL FREDRICK Over the past year, I’ve had an intense internal struggle over the rise of a parenting philosophy that makes me have almost...
The Best Of MyBrownBaby, 2012 Edition: Stories That Moved the MBB Crowd
From controversial shootings (Trayvon Martin), celebrity deaths (Whitney Houston) and celebrity kid growing pains (Willow Smith) to political triumphs (President Barack Obama and Obamacare) and...
Has Your Fifth Grader Ever Partied on the Stripper Bus? No? Time To Get On Your Game!
By NICK CHILES Fifth graders at an Atlanta elementary school got some grown-up lessons on their way back from a field trip last week when...
T.I. and Tiny’s Family Hustle: Sons Major and King Harris Get Ready For Their Star Turn (VIDEO)
In this week’s episode of T.I. and Tiny’s The Family Hustle, hip hop’s favorite TV parents get the shake down from their littlest kids, King...
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Don’t Let Their Kids Google Them—And For Good Reason
Let Google tell it and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are great parents or absolutely suck as a mom and dad to their six kids,...
{Dr. Ivor Is In} Obesity, Exercise and Black Girl Hair: What We Teach Our Daughters
By DR. IVOR HORN All the ladies who have put off a workout for the sake of the ‘do raise your hand. I know mine...
MyBrownBaby Fresh: What We’re Reading, Doing, Watching and Listening To This Week
I started out the week having a terrible, horrible, no good, bad day (relationship building and maintenance with businesses that refuse to recognize your worth...
Princess Boys: Should Boys Wear Dresses and Sparkly, Pretty Things To Kindergarten Class?
This little boy who fancies hot pink dresses and remarkable ruffles and sparkly, pretty things—he makes me giggly and hopeful and wishful that the...
And What An Awesome Year It Was: MyBrownBaby 2010 In Review!
I can hardly believe that 2010 is coming to an end; it seems like it was just yesterday that we were designing this, the beginning...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Down With The Fresh Beat Band and Other Kid Shows That Aren't Fresh
The Fresh Beat Band stars Twist, Kiki, Shout, and Marina, a.k.a. Boogie’s homies By BASSEY IKPIAfter last week's mommy melt down, I've decided to relax...
