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When Hide And Seek Goes Wrong: Cops Called In
A Pennsylvania two-year-old wasn’t just good at hide-and-seek. She was “call the cops to find the kid” good. A toddler playing the game with her siblings went missing, and her frantic parents called the cops when they could find her. A search of the neighbourhood ensued, with friends and family out and about for almost an hour before she w...
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Escaped Pet Python Kills Florida Toddler
As a confirmed Ophidiophobe, this story has scared the living daylights out of me. But then again, I wouldn't be co-habiting with a guy who owned a giant snake. Two-year-old Shaiunna Hare is dead after being strangled by a 3.6m pet python which escaped from its enclosure and slithered into her crib, in central Florida yesterday. Shudder. Para...
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The Pain Of Kids Waaaaay After Birth
So there’s the stretching cervix, the contracting uterus, the post-op recovery, the general fatigue. But as anyone with a toddler knows, the physical pain of becoming a parent doesn’t end in the hospital or during those first few weeks resting comfortably at home. For a lot of us, birth pain is just a teaser. The big stuff — head butts, bi...
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Toddler Takes Joy Ride In Family Van
“Don’t take the family car out for a joy ride,” is not a safety rule you’d typically think to drill into your kids’ heads. But parents from Oregon are wishing they had thought to do just that. Their four-year-old boy recently took the family minivan for a well calculated drive around the block. His parents keep the keys on a rack high...
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Video: Stewie Griffin Illustrates Life With a Toddler
Mum. Mum. Mummy. Mummy. MUMMY! This clip from featuring Stewie from The Family Guy might ring true for a few of you. Is there a reason why toddlers do this? And why is it always mummy and not daddy? My two-year-old has now seen this clip and pesters me to watch it again and again. Sigh. When do they hit the age when they just want to hi...
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Uh Oh: When Toddlers Play on Auction Sites
Here's a warning for all parents: if you regularly leave your computer on, while logged on to online auction sites, make sure your kids are supervised, mmmk? Otherwise, like the parents of 3-year-old New Zealand toddler Pipi Quinlan, you could find yourself the new owners of an excavating digger worth $AU15,000. Oh dear - lucky she's so cute!...
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Family Dog Saves Toddler’s Life
Joshua Childers may only be three, but, man, does he have stories to tell. The Missouri toddler recently spent three days and two nights alone in the wilderness after he wandered off in the vast forest behind his house. As Joshua is treated in the hospital for hypothermia, bug bites, and scratches, the secrets to his survival are becoming increasin...
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Toddler Nutrition
THE BABBLE TAKE As babies grow up, become toddlers and graduate to "real" food, feeding becomes an infinitely more complex and tricky business. Children at this age have a tendency to become picky eaters. Suddenly they learn to verbalise likes and dislikes, which adds yet another dimension to feeding them right. In general, experts say, toddlers...
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When Toddlers Attack The Neighbors
It's one thing when your kids mess up your house. It's quite another when they destroy someone else's. And when they get into the neighbours' house? Look out. John and Matthew Farrer, ages 2 and 3, are brothers. In crime. The pair of toddlers "wandered away from their home on Friday morning," and while their parents and 100 emergency workers...
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