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blogs.babble.com - 25 days ago
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There are responsible gun owners, and then there’s
Sean Jerguson, a Republican state senator in Georgia who
bought his four-year-old daughter her own .22 caliber gun for her birthday. But it’s pink, so apparently it’s appropriate for a little girl.
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Georgia Republican Buys 4-Year-Old a Gun
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blogs.babble.com - 29 days ago
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The treehouse Brenk Johnson built with his two
little boys will have to be torn down because
city officials consider it an “accessory building.” The Johnsons’ neighbor narked on them after Brenk decided to build the treehouse in the front yard because no trees in the backyard would support ...
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City Makes Kids Tear Down Treehouse
blogs.babble.com - 15 days ago
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A father has turned in his own teenaged
daughter for growing pot inside the family home. The
sixteen-year-old girl kept her closet locked - which she told dear old Dad was a move to keep her siblings from borrowing her clothes (not a bad excuse, we’ll give her that). But according to Click On ...
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Dad Turns in His Own Kid For Drugs
blogs.babble.com - 28 days ago
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There are idiots and then there’s this guy!
An upstate New York man who brought a loaded
weapon into a school building, prompting a lockdown, says he never even thought about it. Really? You didn’t think a gun on school premises was sort of a bad idea? Scratch that, reverse it. You didn’t ...
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Gun in a School Guy Says “I Never Though About It”
blogs.babble.com - 29 days ago
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Need something else to feel guilty about parents?
Here it is - parents who wouldn’t dream about
spanking their kids are coming out to tell the world “I’m a shouter.” Especially now that we aren’t allowed to use time outs (thanks Alfie), it turns out we’re all mad as hell and just can’t take ...
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Shouting - It’s the New Spanking
blogs.babble.com - 29 days ago
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First they’re too fat - now a kid
has been denied health insurance because she’s TOO SMALL.
Can we ever win? Two-year-old Aislin Bates apparently weighs twenty-two pounds, putting her in the third percentile for kids her age. So United Health Care said no way to insuring her.
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Toddler Denied Insurance For Being Too Small
blogs.babble.com - 25 days ago
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Ever said “I’d kill someone who laid a
hand on my kid?” A Florida dad has been
charged with trying to. Manuel Vega’s three-year-old told himLuke Petruschke had touched him sexually during a visit to Petruschke’s home. Now police say Vega and a friend went back to Petruschke’s house, forced ...
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Dad Attempts Murder of Man Who Fondled Son
blogs.babble.com - 25 days ago
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Schools are starting to look more like Blockbuster
these days - they’re instituting late fees. Only where
a late drop-off is a problem at the video store, a late pick-up is raising the rates for parents at their local elementary schools.
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Parents Late for School Pick Up Pay a Fee
blogs.babble.com - 24 days ago
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If you’re planning a Harry Potter to celebrate
Halloween with the kids, be careful. A London mom
who likes to throw themed dinner parties has gotten a cease and desist order for her Potter plans. According to the Telegraph, the lawyer who goes by the name Marmite Lover (er, OK?) received a ...
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Warner Bros. Shuts Down Mom’s Harry Potter Party
blogs.babble.com - 21 days ago
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Last week, my daughter got all gussied up
in her fairy costume and we shuttled her off
to the firehouse Halloween party that our ladies auxiliary (and in particular one incredibly mom organizer) throws every year. This week - she informed my father-in-law she wants to be a ghost for ...
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The Last Minute Costume Change
blogs.babble.com - 21 days ago
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We are our kids’ superheroes, but by our
very nature as human beings, we are a flawed
lot. And we live in fear of the day our kids figure it out. Because there are two ways the whole thing can go down:
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A is For Addiction Kid
blogs.babble.com - 19 days ago
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A little kid screaming “Go, plane, go” and
“I want Daddy,” was too much for a Southwest
crew. They kicked the kid - and his mom - off their plane.
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Southwest Kicks Cranky Toddler off Plane
blogs.babble.com - 18 days ago
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They’re still calling it the Hess Truck –
it’s tradition after all – but the 2009 holiday
vehicle from the Hess Corporation isn’t a truck at all.
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Hess Reveals 2009 Truck Isn’t
blogs.babble.com - 17 days ago
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It looks like a regular doll, until your
kids stick their Wiimote to it and “it’s aliiiiiive.”
Creeped out yet? The geek blogs are convinced the new Baby and Me from 505 Games is some anti-feminist plot designed to turn on the primordial urge to procreate in kids.
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Baby Wiimote the New Shaken Baby Toy?
blogs.babble.com - 16 days ago
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We’re only mid-way through the long year of
kids book-to-movie makeovers, and there’s already another biggie down
the pike. The Berenstain Bears have reportedly been picked by Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy as his next pick for a kiddie flick. Levy told USA Today he’d “like the film ...
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Berenstain Bears Get the Red Carpet Treatment
blogs.babble.com - 16 days ago
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Two adult women stood outside a Pennsylvania courthouse
for four and a half hours with giant signs:
“I stole from a nine-year-old on her birthday! Don’t steal or this could happen to you!” A little girl had placed her gift card on a shelf while a Wal-Mart employee assisted her - ostensibly ...
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Women Shamed Outside Court for Stealing from Kid
blogs.babble.com - 14 days ago
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What does your kid call the square LEGO
with four little bumps on top? The round cylinder
that looks like a beer mug? The little dot used for headlights on a LEGO truck? The Morning News chatted up a bunch of kids and found everyone has a different name for individual pieces in the LEGO brick ...
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A LEGO By Any Other Name
blogs.babble.com - 14 days ago
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If part of being zen is letting your
tools talk to you, Handy Manny is the most
centered character on the Disney Channel. And his guide to motorcycle maintenance is available in English AND Spanish. The new Fix-It Right Hanny Manny Motorcycle Toy puts a helmet on Wilmer Valderrama’s bilingual ...
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Manny’s Art to Motorcycle Maintenance
blogs.babble.com - 13 days ago
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A six-figure deal between the Coca-Cola company and
the American Academy of Family Physicians has patients and
some doctors in an uproar.
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Coca-Cola Buys into Family Physicians’ Good Graces
blogs.babble.com - 11 days ago
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Parents who dress their kids in expensive clothes
are being blamed for hampering the kids’ ability to
develop through play. The designer duds, researchers say, are bad for baby. The study also looked at kids sent to daycare centers dressed in clothing inappropriate for the weather or events ...
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They Say: Designer Duds Bad for Baby



















