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blogs.babble.com - 18 hours ago
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It was either the holiday spirit or two
robbers really wanted a crying baby to shut up.
They stopped midway through an armed robbery to heat up the baby’s bottle. Then they untied the family’s teenage son so he could feed the baby.
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Burglars Pause to Heat Bottle for Crying Baby
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blogs.babble.com - 44 hours ago
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In the early days we all tend to
think our kids sound like they’re speaking language from
outer space. But d’Armond Speers went the other way. He only spoke Klingon to his son for the first three years of the boy’s life. Yes, three years with nothing but a language that exists specifically ...
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Dad Only Speaks Klingon to Kid For 3 Years
blogs.babble.com - 2 days ago
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If you’ve ever plugged your iPod into the
stereo to provide tunes for the party – then
had to explain away the five Dan Zanes songs and the two from Miley Cyrus, have heart. You can now take back your iPod.
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How To Take Back Your iPod Mom and Dad
blogs.babble.com - 2 days ago
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A mom told police they could use a
Taser on her ten-year-0ld daughter for resisting arrest. So
they did. And now the little girl’s father is outraged.
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Mom Allows Cops to Use Taser on 10-Year-Old
blogs.babble.com - 2 days ago
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They like everything doused in bubblegum flavor at
this age – toothpaste, sniff stickers and even their
dresses. But it’s better when the bubblegum isn’t sticky. Like this bubblegum pink dress with a fun bow at the neck which gives her just that extra bit of panache to counteract the sticky ...
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Dress Her Up in Bubblegum
blogs.babble.com - 4 days ago
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The bear wouldn’t leave his porch, so an
eleven-year-old boy went and got his shotgun. Then he
killed the bear. Well - that’s one way to deal with it.
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Strollerderby - The mother of all parenting blogs Kid ...
blogs.babble.com - 4 days ago
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He’s just eleven-years-old, but Kyle Orent has racked
up $115,000 in sales. His product? Good old lemonade.
The Long Island sixth grader has been setting up his stand since he was seven at local events. Rather than charge for his sweet and sour mix, he’s asked for donations which go to Canine ...
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Kid Raises $115K Selling Lemonade
blogs.babble.com - 4 days ago
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Wayne Rooney may be one of the England’s
most celebrated soccer stars. He’s still a bit of
a jerk. Rooney told Sky News this week that he’s proud to be a dad, but ten days into the life of baby Kai, he still hasn’t changed one diaper.
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Soccer Star Proud He Hasn’t Changed a Diaper
blogs.babble.com - 5 days ago
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A high school English teacher who used the
“b-word” on her private Facebook page is out of
a job thanks to an anonymous letter sent to school administration. To top it off - she posted a picture of herself from a European vacation holding a glass of wine. Oh, the horrors.
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Teacher Canned for Using “B-Word” on Facebook
blogs.babble.com - 8 days ago
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Watch out world - the Big Wheel is
driving into the history books. The low ridin’ three-wheeler
just earned its place in the National Toy Hall of Fame, along with two other inductees for 2009. And the winners are . . .
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Big Wheel Finally Gets its Due
blogs.babble.com - 9 days ago
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Whether you’ve got a foxy lady or a
little Joe in your arms, chances are they’d prefer
to be wrapped up tight just about now in something snuggly. So give them the Jimi Hendrix Experience with this swaddling set from Baby Bonkie. Covered in psychedelic guitars, they come with easy-to-follow ...
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Wrap Baby in the Hendrix Experience
blogs.babble.com - 9 days ago
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A judge has come up with a creative
way to solve the deadbeat parent situation: he sentences
dads to Father’s Days in jail for not paying child support. Moms who don’t pay up get consecutive Mother’s Days in the slammer.
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Five Father’s Days in Jail for Deadbeat Dad
blogs.babble.com - 10 days ago
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There’s one thing you can be sure of
if you buy booties with the girl mostly seen
on truckers’ mudflaps for your baby: you’re not raising a feminist. Then again, you might just hope your kid has a sense of humor.
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Cool or Creepy: Trucker Girl for Baby
blogs.babble.com - 10 days ago
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If a host of academic experts have their
way, comic books could push traditional books out of
the way in elementary and middle school libraries. But wait, comics are dumbed down versions of books, right? Not so fast.
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School Books Move Over for Comic Books
blogs.babble.com - 10 days ago
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If you build the chocolate milk market, the
National Dairy Council says kids will come. And that’s
not sitting well with parents. While the NDC and Milk Processor Education Program push out a new sister program to the Got Milk? campaign that asks kids to “Raise your hand for chocolate milk,” ...
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Industry Pushes for Chocolate Milk in Schools
blogs.babble.com - 11 days ago
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Oscar the Grouch doesn’t like Fox News. Sort
of. At least that’s what the wacky right is
spouting off about just in time to grab the coattails of the Sesame Street 40th celebration. Technically the cranky green monster doesn’t give two wits about Hannity or O’Reilly. He was reporting for GNN ...
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Did Sesame Street Pick a Fight with Fox News?
blogs.babble.com - 11 days ago
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Ask a kid what they’re favorite animal is,
and somewhere around age 3 or 4, “horse” takes
over the conversation. I remember reading an article last year by a dad who revealed his daughter’s favorite athlete was named Eight Belles. A strange name until he revealed it was a Kentucky Derby contestant.
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Manhattan Toy Adds Horses to Its Stables
blogs.babble.com - 11 days ago
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You better watch out, you better not cry,
because Santa doesn’t want the resulting runny nose all
over his rented red suit. Santas across the states are getting ready for the holiday, and they’re stocking up on Tamiflu.
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Save Santa from Swine Flu
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
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
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 - 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 - 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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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 - 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 - 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
