Category: Parenting

Starshine tells the truth about fibbing, cheating — and swindling for Hannah Montana tickets.

Hell-bent on benevolence, Starshine ponders: Where are the homeless when you need ’em?

The Nana Manifesto: Starshine begs grandparents not to turn their grandchildren into unbearable brats this season. But really … what’s the point?

The birds and the bees and the mom behind bars: Starshine pits information against innocence — and finds that it’s criminal.

Remember when Pop Rocks were lethal? Starshine hates how science takes all the fun out of ignorance.

From belches and butt-heads to limits and let-downs — how Starshine was stripped of her coveted Cool Mom title.

After a celebrated and centuries-old career in the dental detritus trade, the Tooth Fairy, sadly, is dead. Because Starshine killed her.

A close encounter with a pick-up truck reminds Starshine that control is nothing more than a lame Janet Jackson song.

Is CBS’ controversial Kid Nation really the devil’s work, or are parents just kidding themselves? Only Starshine knows for sure …

Remember the hookah-puffing Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland? The one whose cloudy exhalations made poor Alice cough, sputter and sneeze? His killer buzz just went up in smoke.

Disney president Robert Iger recently vowed to snuff out all depictions of smoking in the studio’s future family films. He said the company recognizes its profound influence over children, and while entire generations have been misled into believing that charming princes will rescue helpless but pretty girls, and that we should all adopt the life philosophy of a shiftless singing meerkat, he wants them to also know that a drag on a Marlboro will kill you dead.

Or something to that effect.