Tuesday, December 13, 2011

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Roselyn Sánchez Celebrates Her Baby Shower




Bonita baby!

Roselyn Sánchez celebrates her upcoming arrival — her daughter is due in early January — at a shower thrown by Johnson’s Naturals on Nov. 5 in California.

Pretty in a long purple dress, the actress, 38, welcomed guests — including husband Eric Winter and close pal Eva Longoria — to the outdoor garden party.

Baby girl received many gifts — including a pink tricycle!

RELATED: BumpWatch: Roselyn Sánchez – Pretty In Pink

Viola Davis: Genesis Weirded Out By My Wig


Viola Davis couldn’t be happier with her new family of three.

The actress and her husband Julian Tennon welcomed daughter Genesis in October and the first time mom is over the moon for motherhood.

“We adopted a little girl at 14 months,” Davis, who shared a picture of the sweet toddler, said during a Friday visit to The View. “It has just been wonderful.”

And while the trio have settled in nicely, The Help star admits her relationship with Genesis had a hairy start!

“She had to get used to me because black girls, sometimes we wear wigs and weaves,” Davis, 46, explains.

“So the first time I took my wig off with her, she was like, ‘Nooo!’ She literally did that.”

Fortunately, adds the new mom, it just “took her a minute” for the initial shock to fade!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Upcoming Flick















Check out Nikki's Beads, Braids & Beyond blog post today, on how to change your daughters doll hair from straight to a natural texture. Nikki's Natural Hair for Dolls Tutorial takes you through the process you step by step.

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Mary Mary's Erica Campbell is Expecting Baby No. 3







Gospel superstar Erica Campbell of Mary Mary is expecting a new bundle of joy!

The songstress announced this morning on "Good Morning America" that she and her husband, producer Warryn Campbell, are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their third child early next year.

"We have two incredible children and can't wait to see what our newest bundle of joy will be like!," said the proud mommy-to-be. "We're grateful for all of our blessings, but this is the biggest of all."

Join us in congratulating Erica! What a blessing!


Read more: http://www.essence.com/2011/07/19/mary-marys-erica-campbell-is-expecting-baby-no-3/#ixzz1SZfARAEe

Real Talk: Taking the Sex Out of Childhood









I’m not a parent. And I’ll be the last one to tell people what to do with their kids. Now that we have that clear, there’s something that’s been on my mind that I’d like parents to consider when it comes to their kids, especially the young ones.

Last week, my co-worker sent me a YouTube clip of “Baby Beyonce,” a video that received more than 600,000 views. The video begins with a father sitting on the living room floor, introducing an upcoming show. The intro to Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love,” drops, and a diapered child emerges from a TV cabinet. Once upright, she turns her small tush to the camera and begins to mimic Beyonce’s booty pop. Her father excitedly waves his arms behind her, playing the ultimate hype man. Recently, the family won a $10,000 prize from "America’s Funniest Home Videos" for the clip.

Unfortunately, I’ve been privy to many more videos like this, from a lil’ girl recounting with alarming accuracy the sounds from her parents’ bedroom (replete with the father encouraging her to make the noises over and over), to two children under the age of ten grind-dancing on each other (while an adult off-camera laughs), no doubt recreating how they’ve seen adults or older teens behave.

Admittedly, all the kids are adorable, chubby-cheeked and bright-eyed. And while they are innocent to what their adult talk and actions mean, I find nothing funny about a child imitating a grown woman’s salacious bottom jiggling, or a child making sex noises, or children simulating sex. At best, it’s disturbing. And further, with the tacit approval of their parents, it sends the message that this behavior okay. And it’s not.

Children need solid and consistent examples of what is acceptable. And sanctioning sexy dancing and sexy talk to children, then trying (if you have sense) to curb it when they become hormonal teenagers, doesn’t do that. You can’t reasonably cheer your daughter on for p-popping, then wonder, years later, how she ended up in clear heels in the Champagne Room. And you can’t encourage kids to go through the motions of sex, and then wonder less than a decade later why they’re teenage parents.

Children get enough mixed messages that parents can’t protect them from. Unless your flat-screen is tuned to all-Dora and Diego, you don’t have Internet access, and your radio stays off, kids can’t miss seeing or hearing the sights and sounds that are made-for-adults that are too accessible to their impressionable minds. Even under the most watchful parental eye, kids will see and do what they should not.

That’s why it’s the overwhelmingly important role of parents to set the tone for what is, and more importantly isn’t, acceptable. And co-signing a kid’s fast behavior? Completely unacceptable. Even when you think it’s funny.


Demetria L. Lucas is the Relationships Editor at ESSENCE and the author of “A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life” (Atria) in stores now. Follow her on Twitter: @abelleinbk


Read more: http://www.essence.com/2011/07/18/real-talk-taking-the-sex-out-of-childhood/#ixzz1SZQPhWQk

Monday, July 4, 2011

Happy 4th


Happy 4th of July celebrate with family and friends! and may God continue to bless America:))

Friday, July 1, 2011

Tia Baby shower







Update: The couple has chosen the name Cree Taylor Hardrict for their son, they tell PEOPLE.

Originally posted June 28: Special delivery for Tia Mowry!

The Game star, 32, and husband Cory Hardrict welcomed an 8 lb. son on Tuesday, June 28 in Los Angeles, her rep tells PEOPLE.

Mowry announced the pregnancy in January, telling PEOPLE she felt “sexy and empowered.”

Although baby has now arrived, Mowry’s pregnancy will be televised when she and her twin sister Tamera return to the airwaves on their new reality show, Tia & Tamera, premiering in August on the Style Network.

“I think she secretly thinks my son is her son too! I mean, twins share everything, right?” Mowry joked recently. “She is always kissing, rubbing, patting and hugging my belly.”


Mowry and Hardrict, also an actor, tied the knot in April 2008 in Santa Barbara.

– Alla Byrne and Sarah Michaud with reporting by Blaine Zuckerman