The DeBroff DeBrief

The Cost of Raising Kids

The costs of raising kids these days are high, and I’m not just talking about sleepless nights, countless numbers of outfits ruined by finger paint, and those hours spent searching for missing toys that you’ll never get back...

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Plastic Surgery: The Resurgence among Young Celebrities

When is one too young to have plastic surgery? It seems that Hollywood is continually lowering the age limit, and teen girls everywhere are clamoring for it. ...

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Jennifer Garner: Changing Hollywood

Jennifer Garner has emerged a star: not of Alias, but of how one can balance being a star with being a Mom...

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Married to Ben Affleck for a over a year and mother to one-year-old Violet, Jennifer has made having a family above having her name in the tabloids. She is a refreshing change from the wild child mothers who seem to be swarming Hollywood. There is just so much to admire here.

Jennifer has her Mom priorities in line. She and Ben are frequently seen together hanging low in the parks of Boston, close to Ben's family. Violet also seems to be having a normal childhood away from media speculation due to her parents grown up manner of conducting themselves. Ben and Jennifer's parenting method is in sharp contrast to the majority of Hollywood moms and dads. From Britney's abandonment of her children due to alcohol to Gwen Stefani walking her little boy Kingston in thousand dollar strollers, I have a feeling that Jennifer would probably prefer Bugaboo to Gucci.

It seems that her parenting styles are a reflexion of her girl-next-door start. Jennifer worked her way from Denison University, where she graduated in 1994, to an actress within only a couple of years. She found her love for theater at the university where she was originally a chemistry major. She chose acting not for fame or fortune, but for the love of the adventure of the business.

Finding her niche in Alias lead her to the a-lister fame she holds today, but it remarkably has not gone to her head. She was even to bring Ben down after his high profile romance with Jennifer Lopez that was tabloid fetter for months. The two have seemed to find deep comfort in each other and their beautiful daughter.

Jennifer should become the new role model for young Hollywood. Let the Kate Moses and Courtney Loves fall to the wayside and allow a truly devoted Mom take center stage.

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Keeping Our Kids Healthy

I took note of a few articles lately dealing with the latest string of pediatric winter and spring illnesses – stomach bugs, salmonella in peanut butter, and cases of the flu so severe that some children have died as a result...

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"Helicopter" Parents: Taking it too the workplace

The kids of the so-called “helicopter” parents have started to grow up, but that isn’t stopping their parents from hovering over their every move...

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Have We Gone Too Far?

A recent Boston Globe article contained an important “Spoiler Alert” – kids today are more narcissistic than ever before, and parents are to blame...

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Returning to work turns out to be as hard as feeding kids vegetables

Amidst all of the recent stories about employers finally facing up to the fact that mothers who have taken time off are valuable assets who should be allowed back into the workforce, along with the increasing number of companies offering family-friendly benefits to parents, I wasn’t surprised to come across an article in a Canadian paper about one mom’s journey back into the workplace...

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Reading, Writing, and ‘Rithmetic

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, has been conducting assessments of 4th, 8th, and 12th graders in the nation’s schools periodically since 1969. The Reading and Mathematics scores from the tests administered in 2005 were recently released, and one of the results in particular is surprising...

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Lessons Down-Under

First Australia gave us some of the hottest male actors. Soon after, we started seeing the transplant of some of the most talented male musicians. And now a new trend we can follow from down-under: male models...

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Digital Deprivation?

If you have recently stopped your child from watching their tenth TV show of the day, chatting online until midnight, or constantly text messaging their friends, you may be causing them permanent damage...

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