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Potty Dance? Oh, Please!
Mark it – March 2009 is the month viral video marketing campaigns finally died. Or deserved to. Have you seen this Potty Dance commercial, or God forbid has someone who seccretly hates you forwarded the video? Sweet mother of – I mean — I just — there are no words for the wrongness of this. No words. At all. And I don’t mean wrongne...
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4 Year Old Brings Pot To School, School Bans Backpacks
When I was young and went to summer camp, people were always amazed when I said I was from the Bronx. I remember one kid actually took two steps back when I told him. Because people from the Bronx, you know, they were scary. Clearly those guys didn't know what they were talking about. The really dangerous kids are from Florida. The 4 year olds....
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Are R-Rated Movies The New Gateway Drug?
A new study has found that kids who watch R-rated movies are more likely to smoke cigarettes. But before you rush home and burn your copies of Rain Man and Jerry Maguire, let’s take a closer look at the findings. Researchers with the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program (part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) found that sixth graders w...
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Mum Lets Toddler Smoke
We've all heard of kids sneaking cigarette butts out of Mum or Dad's ashtray and trying to smoke them. Heck, most of us have probably done it ourselves, back in our wild early teen years. But I'd wager that none of us did when we were three years old. But that's exactly what Kelly Pocock's son did, according to Pocock's "friend" Natasha Dudle...
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Parents Rescued From Cliff After Trying To Save Teddy Bear
Kids, they sometimes freak out. And they are apt to lose it even more when their favourite stuffed animal, blankie or binky goes AWOL. If you’ve ever dealt with a misplacement of a beloved lost security item, you know all too well the emotional onslaught that can occur. But has your child’s lost item led to an emergency response rescue? It di...
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Mum Shoplifts Parenting Book With Kids In Tow
So, you want to know how to be a "great mom?" You could drop some dough on a book called 101 Ways to be a Great Mom. Or you could take your kids out shoplifting and get yourself the five finger discount! Decisions, decisions. An Ohio mom has been accused of taking her two kids out to the local Dollar General with their daddy and shoving a par...
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Police Called on 10-Year-Old Riding Train Alone
The nervous nellies strike again. This time a 10-year-old boy was riding on the Long Island Railroad in New York to see his friend last Friday. His friend's family was going to pick him up at the station. He'd done the ride dozens of times before. LIRR has no policy about what age is too young to ride alone, but his mum had talked to them...
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They Say — Kids Who Skip Breakfast and Hate Mum Have Sex Sooner
Sometimes I read a news story and feel like I'm actually reading The Onion. Does that ever happen to you?For example: this report from Japan that finds a link between middle school students and teen sex. Basically, middle schoolers who do not partake of the most important meal of the day are more likely to get a head start on making the o...
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Court Bans Divorce Mom’s Partner from Sleeping Over
Proving once again that what's good for the gander isn't necessarily going to be allowed by homophobic family court judges for the goose, a divorced mum from Tennessee has been informed she can't allow her lesbian partner to sleep over on the same nights as her kids.Her ex-husband, meanwhile, has remarried and his wife sleeps ove...
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