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Nude Awakening
My ten-year-old son storms into my bedroom, plants his feet, fixes his eyes on me and bellows, "I can't take it anymore. He won't stop banging his drums when I'm trying to play Guitar Hero! Can you pleeeeeeeease help me? Now?" "Sure — just give me two secs." He huffs back towards the playroom, glancing over his shoulder...
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The Babble Do-It-Myself Guide
"I can do it myself!" Surely, a battle cry for the ages? well, ages 2-18. In the spirit of the DIY revolution, we've put together our own home schooling guide, Babble style. Here are 25+ tips and how-to's for teaching kids lots of useful and, frankly, not-so-useful-but-really-fun new skills, from floating in the pool to curing an ice-cream heada...
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Kids’ Nuclear Power Toy Sets Off Radiation Alert
Most kids play house. Pirates. Unemployed mortgage broker (hey, you go with what you know). But a couple of kids in Germany were entirely more hip to the world. Two little boys were playing nuclear power station when they had to go home for dinner. Their abandoned “power station” prompted a scare that closed down their entire town. A pass...
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Dropping F-Bombs On Facebook: NSF Kids?
I was pissed, and I needed to let out steam. So I left it in my Facebook status: a big ol’ F-bomb. And now I’ve got a situation of a possible “un-friending,” from an angry grandmother who thinks the F-word doesn’t belong on Facebook. WTF? My original message, or status report, was put up Thursday. It said “To the f—wad who wa...
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Why Are People Such Jerks To Children?
There’s a worth-reading post over at Hipmama.com under the headline “Kids Are People” that makes some great points about the incredible double standard so many people apply to what’s considered “respect” when interacting with children versus with adults, not to mention how willing we are to offer our decidedly uninformed opinions (good,...
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What Do Your Kids Think About?
Sometimes I'll catch my three-year-old son staring off into space, looking so pensive I just have to ask him, "Ronan, what are you thinking about?" He'll turn to me and say, "Gooky poopy head!" So much for deep thoughts. But I do wonder what my kids think about. My efforts at conversation with them are mostly thwarted — How was school?...
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They Say: Parents Don’t Care If Boys Get Fat
A study that set out to determine whether restricting what and how much your child eats would eventually lead to obesity (it doesn't; more on that in a second) uncovered a dirty little secret: Parents care more about keeping their daughters skinny than letting their sons get fat. That actually came as no surprise to me and probably not you ei...
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Young Lady GaGa Copycats Flood YouTube
I’m not one to get too bent out of shape if I hear kids singing along with Lady GaGa or Beyonce. Throughout primary school, I listened to songs with risqué lyrics (I remember performing a dance to “Like a Virgin” to my shell-shocked parents in fourth grade), and I didn’t end up pole dancing for a living. But neither did I videotape myself...
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6 Reasons Why It Sucks To Be A Kid Today
Rebecca Kelly feels very sorry for today's youth. We had it better. According to her, "back in the good old days, being a kid was awesome, but now today's youth is choking on yuppified bulls*** like organic nonsense, parental controls, and more." 1) Food is No Fun When we were kids we had lunches packed with Fruit By the Foot, Teddy Grahams,...
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