Arts & Entertainment Mission Playground: Now Open For Playtime We mentioned it in passing last week, but in case you missed it, and because we just took our own photo: The newly redesigned and spiffed up Mission Playground, on Valencia near 20th,
Arts & Entertainment Priscilla Chan Bought Wedding Dress Under Fake Name, Saves Children's Lives Powerful yet starved socialites, we're done with you. (Not really!) Please step aside and collect your schwag bag on the way out. We have a new obsession, and her name is PRISCILLA CHAN.
SF News North Carolina Pastor Suggests Parents Beat The Gay Out Of Their Kids Crazy person Sean Harris, senior pastor of the Berean Baptist Church in North Carolina, delivered a terrifying sermon on Sunday to his congregation suggesting that parents "crack" their fey sons' limp wrists, rein
Arts & Entertainment Dolores Park Playground Parents Now Want A Fence To Keep Out <strike>Gays</strike> Dogs We've discussed before our trepidation about the infringing upon gay space that happened when that new Dolores Park playground got renovated and drastically enlarged. Though most of the gay beach remains intact, there
SF News Supes Propose Change In Muni's Stroller Policy As City Insider reports, Supervisors Chiu and Elsbernd are reconsidering Muni's decades-old policy regarding strollers on the bus in an effort to keep families from fleeing the city at the alarming rate we
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: Why Do Dads Get The Shaft? By D. Hanousek You may or may not have noticed that two weeks ago, I took the day off from writing . I wasn't going to talk about it because I'm inclined to keep
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: 'It's Getting Lonely Out Here' By D. Hanousek Maybe it's the nonstop rain or the traffic on 101. Maybe it's the news that one of my SFUSD-champion parent friends is pulling her kids out of public school and
SF News With Barely Any Kids In S.F., That Dolores Park Playground Is Opening Soon New census figures only confirm what we already suspected: There are barely any children left in this town to use that oversize playground they just built for them, which is using up practically
SF News Oakland Elementary School On Lockdown [Updated] Maxwell Park Elementary (4730 Fleming) in Oakland is on lockdown, with students being evacuated, after a neighbor reported seeing a man with a shotgun roaming around the area. No reports of any injuries
Arts & Entertainment Beeper Easter Egg Hunt For Blind Kids How cool is this? Midtown Terrace Park will hold an Easter egg hunt for children who are blind or visually impaired. Presented by the Blind Babies Foundation, plastic eggs contain beepers that emit
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: Valentine's Day Is For School Kids By D. Hanousek If my husband walked in the door after work carrying a dozen red roses and a box of chocolate, I would roll my eyes and maybe even throw up a
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: 'Ignorance Is Bliss' (By D. Hanousek) Yesterday, a close friend pregnant with her first child posted a link on Facebook to an article about a mother who was arrested for allowing her 10-year-old to get a
SF News San Jose Amber Alert Issued For 11-Year-Old Girl [Updated] Police issued an Amber Alert this morning for a missing 11-year-old San Jose girl. Her name is Taylor Vo (Asian, 5'3") and she was taken at around 1:15 a.m. Friday. Police
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: 'I Don't Want To Be Your Friend' (By D. Hanousek) After changing park benches three times over the weekend, I realized that I have a confession to make. I don't want to be your friend. Sure, we both have kids
SF News 12-Year-Old Boy Wounded During SF Shooting A 12-year-old boy was injured during a shooting on Saturday in San Francisco's Hunter's Point neighborhood. "A 23-year-old man was shot and a 12-year-old wounded by fragments of shattered glass after gunfire erupted
SF News $25,000 Reward Offered In Fatal Shooting Of 5-Year-Old Oakland Boy A five-year-old Oakland boy died at Children's Hospital late Friday night after being struck in the neck by shots fired from a car passing by his family's taco truck on International Boulevard. Gabriel
SF News Pathetic Woman Steals Gold From Children As Mercury News reports, shameful San Jose resident Sandra Lizbeth Contreras-Velazquez was arrested last week for allegedly befriending about half a dozen elementary school-aged girls in order to sneak away with their gold
SF News What's Your Slavery Footprint Number? You may not think that slavery is still a major problem worldwide, and you'd be wrong. As Oakland-based Slavery Footprint can show you via their handy web-based survey, you might have as many
SF News 8 Shot In Oakland, Including 1-Year-Old Baby [Video] A little after 6 p.m. on Monday night, eight people were shot in West Oakland, including a one-year-old baby. The shooting occurred on the 700 block of Willow Street when a group
Arts & Entertainment Natural Resources Raising Funds To Stay Afloat, Campaign Ends Tomorrow Earlier this month, Natural Resources, which has been providing quality gear, clothing, classes, and support to San Francisco parents for the past 25 years, reached out to its customers for some help, announcing
Arts & Entertainment Learn How to Ride with, or While Pregnant with, Your Kids at SF Bike Coalition's Family Biking Classes The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition announced today their first-ever Family Biking Series, a three-part series of (free!) classes that will help you and your runny-nosed clan bike city streets better, safer. The three
SF News Brothers Face Trial Over Torture-Revenge on Child Molester Miguel and Erik Cerda, two brother who took the law into their own hands on a brutal child molester, decided on a trial rather than a plea deal yesterday. The budding heroes (?) face
SF News Halloween Home Decor Barred for SoCal Sex Offenders Like the plot to a John Waters movie, Riverside County supervisors voted to ban sex offenders from decorating their homes with holiday accents and leaving lights on during Halloween night. "They also cannot
SF News Five-Year-Old in Critical Condition After Being Hit By Shuttle Bus in the Bayview [Updated] A five-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital late yesterday afternoon after being struck by a private shuttle near Third Street and Williams Avenue in the Bayview. The boy had been walking behind
Arts & Entertainment Red Tricycle's Guide To Bringing Kids To Burning Man If dragging your child to a drug-fueled party in the desert is your bag, you're in luck. Parenting newsletter Red Tricycle recently published this jarring Insider’s Guide to Burning Man with Kids
