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My mom recently adopted me. I love spending time with her, especially when we go get pedicures. She looked so pretty when she dressed up for her anniversary with dad. When I'm sick, mom takes care of me and lets me watch my favorite TV shows. I want to make her happy all the time. She plays with me and makes me laugh with her funny voices. Mom rewards me with trips to Amy's Ice Cream and Round Rock Donuts. Whenever I'm sad, I think of my mom and it makes me feel better. Best of all, my mom chose me. I love her so much. Elizabeth Pigott, age 8

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  • Updated: 10:21 a.m. Thursday, May 9, 2013
“Dad is Fat,” $25 from Crown Publishing, lands on bookstore shelves Tuesday.

Gaffigan’s ‘Dad is Fat’ packed with dark parental humor

The night my wife and I brought our prematurely born daughter home from the hospital in 1998, I fell asleep with the baby in my arms. In a recliner. In suburban Chicago mid-March. In a poorly heated family room addition to our house. When I woke up, freezing, she was ...

  • 12:00 a.m. Monday, May 6, 2013
Dad pays teen to quit Facebook

Dad pays teen to quit Facebook

A Wellesley, Massachusetts father is paying his daughter to quit Facebook.

  • 9:55 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013
Ben Cook is one of the boys who plays Billy Elliot. Here he’s with Janet Dickinson as Mrs. Wilkinson and Samantha Blaire Cutler as Debbie in “Billy Elliot the Musical.”

Boys who play Billy Elliot know what’s like to be the odd duck

The boys who play the lead character in “Billy Elliot” want you to know that the musical is not for kids, per se. After all, there’s some language in it, though not as much in the touring version as in the Broadway version. It is a production that has a ...

  • 12:00 a.m. Friday, Nov. 23, 2012
Why mum went on strike at home

Why mum went on strike at home

A Canadian mother who decided she had had enough of the household chores explains what happened when she went on strike.

  • 6:02 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012
Mom uses Facebook to discipline daughter

Mom uses Facebook to discipline daughter

An Ohio mother changed her daughter's profile to highlight her bad behavior.

  • 2:28 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Austin 9-year-old has grown up with ACL

While Wilco and Los Lobos rocked Zilker Park at the inaugural Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2002, 10-month-old Cash Robinson crawled and toddled from blanket to blanket, curling up from time to time to take it all in."Cash loved being outside," says his mother, Carolyn Robinson. "His first word ...

  • Updated: 6:48 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, 2011
Once you have food, shade and hydration covered, help your kids find some age-appropriate fun at ACL Fest. Austin Isaacs gets a punk hairdo in the Austin Kiddie Limits area.

Take the kids to ACL, but please be considerate

Ah, the Austin City Limits Music Festival!I am particularly excited about this year's ACL because: 1.) I am not pregnant. 2.) It's in mid-October, so maybe it won't be over 100 degrees. 3.) I have new sassy rain boots and a bright orange poncho to wear in case it rains. ...

  • Updated: 2:55 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, 2011
Jacob Hamrick and Kathy Dunn Hamrick.

Mother, son find away to collaborate and combine passions

Choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick says she thought about it a while before she approached her 21-year-old son, Jacob Hamrick, about collaborating on her next evening-length modern dance concert, "Alone, Alone," which opens next weekend at Salvage Vanguard Theater. Though the longtime Austin choreographer found intrigue in the ambient, complex rock ...

  • Updated: 9:06 p.m. Friday, March 19, 2010
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