Work & Life

In my opinion, the drive to make your child as “smart” as possible, leads parents to do some silly, unproven things like buy the “Your Baby Can Read” DVD set. A.J. has been “reading” since he could hold a book himself. Often he’ll walk away from a toy he likes …

UPDATE:  In January 2013, Melissa Faith Payne left her news anchor position at WJTV. She worked as  Director of Communications for Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson’s re-election campaign, then at JSU. In August 2014, she accepted an evening anchor position at the Fox station in Jackson, MS. On February 23, 2016 she …

Thanks to help from 27 babies and their parents who gathered at the Chattahoochee Nature Center on Saturday, April 23rd the world record was made for the most cloth diapers changed simultaneously. This is video of the preparations before the babies “bared their butts”! The Great Cloth Diaper Change is …

Cloth Diapers vs. Disposable Diapers Several of my mommy friends use cloth diapers and I applaud them for it. It seems like a huge financial commitment to buy cloth diapers and a huge investment in time to wash cloth diapers. When I attended The Great Cloth Diaper Change in Roswell at …

At A.J.’s one year check-up last week I expected his pediatrician to say it was O.K. to turn his car seat to forward facing. Not so. She told us doctors now recommend keeping children rear-facing longer. Here are the new car seat guidelines. The American Academy of Pediatrics has new …