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PETA Says Animal Abuse Killed Toys R Us Giraffe
The long-necked creature who has appeared in Toys R Us commercials as Geoffrey, everyone’s favorite giraffe, is dead. And a federal investigation instigated by PETA indicates there’s foul play behind the fella’s death. Tweet the giraffe was at a zoo in Boston for filming The Zookeeper with Kevin James when the Gainesville Sun reports he collapsed and died.
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Anne Heche Hires $375/Hr. Parenting Coordinator
Oh to be rich and not have to exert yourself on actually being, you know, a parent. You can always hire a parenting “coordinator” for $375 an hour and call yourself Anne Heche!
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Teen Marries Uncle in Shady Catering Hall Ad
As if it wasn’t enough that they grabbed a shot of an underage kid at her sweet sixteen. A catering hall is in trouble for using the picture to promote its wedding availability. And the picture? It shows the girl with her uncle - as though the kid is marrying a blood relative. Can anyone say icky here?
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New Breast Pump Lets You Do It With Your Clothes On
Now there’s a headline that titillates! Alas the real story is just aching to be milked by moms. Forget the hands-free breast pump. That innovation is so last month’s hot mommy blogging news. The new must have: a pump that lets you keep your clothes on while you’re making milk.
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Kids Vote to Kill Lamb They Raised
A program meant to teach kids about raising animals should be an animal activist’s dream. Until the fourteen kids who raised a lamb named Marcus voted to have the wooly little critter sent to the slaughterhouse. Lamb chop anyone?
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Philly Closing Its Libraries!
One of the largest public library systems in the world is slated for closure next month, and along with it will go after-school programs for Philadelphia’s kids, GED classes for drop-outs, the go-to source for books for school projects and everything else that makes libraries an enriching community resource for families.
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Schools Begin Banning Twilight
I’m going to have to offer a total spoiler alert here for those of you who haven’t read Twilight. Because one of the reasons Australian schools are beginning to ban the vampire books with a feverish tween fan base proves they haven’t taken a bite out of the books themselves. The Daily Telegraph reports school officials are concerned with the “sexual themes” in the books.
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6-Year-Old Charges the Mound at Comerica Park
A six-year-old boy surprised the fans at Comerica Park Friday night when he showed up on the pitcher’s mound at the end of the seventh inning. Dad told him to go get a ball, and he took advantage of all those listening skills learned during the first week back at school. He went out and grabbed the ball left for pitcher Brandon Lyon.
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Parents Sue Dunkin Donuts for Hot Hash Browns
Who know: fast food fresh off the assembly line might be hot. Apparently a set of parents from the Boston area, who are suing Dunkin’ Donuts for burns their twenty-three-month-old allegedly obtained from a hash brown that was too hot. And the lawyer keeps insisting this is NOTHING like the infamous McDonald’s coffee case. Yeah, OK. Keep telling yourself that buddy.
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Anti-Abortion Activist Killing Not Abortion-Motivated?
A well-known Michigan abortion protestor was gunned down this week doing what he loved - protesting outside a high school. But the arrest of Harlan James Drake has put a curious spin on the move to make Jim Pouillon a martyr for the pro-life crowd: He might not have been killed over the abortion cause at all
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Somebody’s Jealous: Pregnant and Still Out Clubbing
she’s supposed to be sassy and make us parents walk outside of our little lives and laugh at ourselves. It would be a heckuva lot easier to laugh if she was actually funny. Take CB’s (because she never actually owns up to her real name) rant this week on pregnant women who dare show their face inside a club:
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Mad Men Style Cheat Sheet For Cocktail Kids
I’m starting to think Mad Men was created to take the pressure off today’s parent. Lined up against smoking, drinking Betty Draper, who allows her elementary schooler to take driving lessons with her crazy grandpa and pretends away her kids’ feelings, we are all up for mother of the year. But has that much changed since the sixties? Nobody’s Sweetheart, creator of the best Mad Men memorabilia on the net, has a two-part series of “Sally Draper Cocktail Cheat Sheets” that are both retrolicious and satirically hysterical.
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Born at 9:09 On 9/9/09
To all those people who lined up at City Hall to be married on 9/9/09, you’ve just been topped. A mom in Queens gave birth to her baby girl at 9:09 a.m. on, you guessed it, Sept. 9. And no, it wasn’t a planned birth. Isabella Villagomez arrived on her own, two days after mom Maria’s due date at a hospital in Flushing, NY.
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Coach Takes Kids to Be Baptized Without Parent Permission
A high school football coach who took his players to a Baptist revival - then encouraged them to be dunked in the water and officially “baptized” - has gotten parents mad, but not his school district. The Kentucky district has made public its faith in Coach Scott Mooney, who got parental permission for a trip to “see a motivational speaker,” even though one parent says they weren’t told it would be a religious speaker . . . or that their kid would be baptized.
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School Skipped Obama Speech, Sends Kids to Bush Speech
Some five hundred kids from Arlington will be bused out to watch former President George W. Bush give a speech later this month at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium. These are the same kids who weren’t allowed to watch President Barack Obama’s speech to American school children yesterday.
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Mom Begs On Highway Ramp to Pay Son’s Tuition
A woman whose son has been accepted to his dream school doesn’t have the money to send him there. So she’s been spending every day on a highway off-ramp near her Washington home, begging for change. For a woman who’s unemployed, the pay isn’t bad. She reports as much as $45 an hour!
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VIDEO: Hitler Learns Obama’s Coming for Our Kids
While the right wing was pulling their kids out of school and protesting the president’s indoctrination of our kids, the Fuhrer was getting REALLY P-O-ed. The folks at Skitzo Studios had a little fun with subtitles to bring you Adolf Hitler’s reaction to the news that President Obama was going to be allowed to talk to all of America’s school children.
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Parents Marry at Son’s Funeral
And the winner for worst wedding anniversary goes to . . . the parents of a seven-year-old who died in a car crash last week. They decided to celebrate his life by getting marrried - at his funeral.
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VIDEO: President Obama’s Speech to the Kids
We promised it, and here it is. Babble has President Obama’s speech to America’s kids, and it goes live . . . now:
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Farting Elephant Toy!
Finally – they’ve invented a novelty toy you don’t have to throw on a shelf in the closet the day after opening. You can actually give Norman the farting elephant to your kid. Yuh, yeah, I said the farting elephant. He’s fabulously flatulent. Just squeeze the “phart-ephant” tail, and he farts. But squeeze his belly, and he’s totally squishy and lovable.
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