Ramsey + Holloway Twitty = True Love?

And you thought the recent reuniting of Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafucco was a match made in tabloid heaven… well, hold on to your stomachs… FOX News is reporting that John Ramsey (the father of JonBenet Ramsey) and Beth Holloway Twitty (the mother of missing teen Natalee Holloway) are dating. According to news sources, the pair has been romantically involved since January. However, Ramsey (as recently as Monday) has repeatedly denied that he is in a relationship with Twitty; rather he says that the two have a “special friendship based on tragedy.” Regardless of Ramsey’s statement, FOX News insists that … Continue reading

Would You Put Your Child in a Beauty Pageant?

One of my very favorite films of last year was “Little Miss Sunshine”—the quirky, eccentric family really hit pretty close to home. But, thinking about the movie reminded me of a little girl that I used to baby sit for when I was a teenager, her mother entered her in all sorts of those “Little Miss”-type beauty pageants—and I actually went along to one or two to help out with babysitting for the two younger children. I thought it might be an interesting topic for us to chat about here—whether, as parents, we’d encourage our small children to be in … Continue reading