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By Katia Hetter (CNN)–In this age of farm-to-table dinner adoration and making one’s own butter and baking powder from scratch, I rise up in defense of the drive-thru, the TV dinner and the semi and fully-prepared dinners from the grocery store. That includes bags o’ salad, minced garlic and frozen pizza. As I return [...] By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — My daughter occasionally goes on a hugging and kissing strike. By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Sam Lamott, the baby star of best-selling author Anne Lamott’s classic memoir, “Operating Instructions,” was finally grown up and safely ensconced at art school in San Francisco. Before Sam was born and during his childhood, Anne Lamott had developed a community of [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — The Girl Scout cookie can’t seem to catch a break. Under fire in years past for including trans fats, high fructose corn syrup and palm oil in its cookies, the Girl Scouts’ current cookie selling season is under fire because of policies [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — David Murphy hasn’t started shopping for his two boys yet, and he knows he had better get started. The divorced father of two boys, ages 11 and 14, has custody for a full week around Christmas Day this year and needs [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Noël Plummer can’t imagine making a conscious decision to inflict physical pain on her 8-year-old daughter as a punishment. She’s only slapped her daughter once, without thinking, when her then-5-year-old was having an enormous tantrum. She’s never hit her again. While she recognizes [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — I have no idea why my 3-year-old wants to be a cowboy for Halloween this year, because she won’t tell me. That’s OK. I don’t need to know her reasoning to make it happen. Thanks to her outdoorsy grandparents who live in [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Olivia Nakamura can still remember the neighbor who always hosted a barbecue in his front yard for his son’s birthday party. He’d invite all the kids on their suburban Seattle block, except her son and the Asian-American children who lived there. “I [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN CNN) — While the Bible Belt is known for its devotion to traditional values, Southerners don’t do so well on one key family value: They are more likely to get divorced than people living in the Northeast. Southern men and women had higher rates of divorce [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — A glance at teen stars Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber’s letters to their younger selves makes one thing clear: their handwriting is terrible. In the letters, part of the Habbo Celebrity “Advice to My Teenage Self” book, the content is messy and their [...] |
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