Filed under: Fun & activities, Celeb parenting The adorable first daughters had a nice surprise when they got home from school yesterday. Not the puppy (not yet, anyway), but something almost as good -- a brand new wooden swing set. They squealed with delight upon seeing it, said a spokeswoman f...

The Obama girls still don't have a puppy, but they did receive another surprise when they arrived home from school Wednesday.' (CNN) – The Obama girls still don't have a puppy, but they did receive another surprise when they arrived home from school Wednesday– a brand new swing set...

Filed under: Kids 8-11, Celeb parenting The suspense is over! The most important issue facing our nation will soon come to a close! Drum roll, please... Michelle Obama has revealed that she wants a Portuguese Water Dog. Obama told People Magazine that it was down to either that or a Labradoodle or G...

Filed under: Celeb parenting, Chores We all know that Barack and Michelle Obama don't spoil their girls -- Sasha and Malia only get $1 a week in allowance, for example, which is a lot less than the average weekly allowance for kids their ages ($4.10 and $7.18, respectively). The payout is small, but...

[A boy takes a cellphone picture of First Daughters Sasha and Malia Obama sitting in the East Room of the White House as their mother Michelle speaks about Black History Month; image via Getty]...

Filed under: Celeb kids, Celeb parenting There are a few different schools of thought when it comes to giving children an allowance. Barack and Michelle Obama have a slightly different take. Some parents feel that giving kids a little spending money of their own, say $10 per week, will teach them ho...

OK, some will claim that a blogger employed by the New York Times is still a blogger, not a journalist. I don’t agree. The woman is a professional writer published by the New York Times web site, and evidently has a contract to write one blog a week, but since Judith Warner’s called a bl...

Within the self-involved newsrooms of America, there is much handwringing over ever-shrinking Washington bureaus. Why? They'd just as soon quit, from what we gather. Today's White House pool report from ace reporter Bill Theobald: From: Theobald, William Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 4:29 PM To:...

Filed under: Celeb parenting, In the news, Kid decor & style The spotlight is on First Daughters, Sasha and Malia. We're watching what they wear, the toys on their backpacks and, of course, the color of their skin. Madison Avenue is also paying attention. First case in point, modeling agencies a...

Those "TyGirlz" dolls named Sasha and Malia, the ones Michelle Obama viciously smeared as "inappropriate" (BURN!)? They're done. Gone forever. Finished. (Not exactly.) Ty, Inc. maintained all along that the dolls had nothing to do with the First Family. Why are liberals so sensitive about two black ...