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How LEGOs Will Convince Them to Wear Seatbelts
Explaining to a toddler why they can’t reach over and undo that seatbelt button is like explaining to them why they can’t touch your butt over and over and over simply because it’s there. So how about hitting them where it hurts? No, we’re not suggesting putting them in a car and crashing it. But seeing their toys get hurt in an old-fashioned crash test dummy commercial could change your LEGO-maniac’s mind.
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School Slates Fried Chicken Lunch for MLK Day
A Colorado school district is apologizing after its menu of fried chicken and collard greens for Martin Luther King Jr. Day was criticized as racist. And they’re surprised by this?
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David After Dentist Gets Revenge On Dad
A kid looking stoned after a trip to the dentist may have been the top meme of 2009, but David After Dentist is looking to exact his revenge in 2010. Comedian Daniel Tosh tracked down a David off the meds and helped him get back at his dad. Slated for the season premiere of Tosh.0, his weekly Internet series on ComedyCentral.com, Tosh helps David knock Dad out with laughing gas, draw on his face and drag him around the backyard.
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Prop 8 Argument Would Deny Infertile Couples Marriage License
The fight over same sex marriage in California has brought up a conundrum for the anti crowd: if they’re going to use inability to procreate as a reason gay marriage can’t be legalized, shouldn’t it apply to straights? The AFP reports Charles Cooper, an attorney for Proposition 8’s campaign committee, Protect Marriage, has said during the trial “the purpose of the institution of marriage, the central purpose, is to promote procreation and to channel naturally procreative sexual activity between men and women in stable enduring unions.”
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Now You Can Stop Sexting With TASER
Who knew the answer to teens sexting and texting while driving was so simple? TASER says they have the answer. Yes, THAT TASER. Only you’re kids won’t be screaming “don’t tase me bro,” (no matter how much you’ve been tempted) because the company isn’t using any of its stunning technology for its new innovation. Their new ew family safety platform, Protector, aims to give parents more control over their kids’ cell phones.
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My Parents Were Awesome Gets a Book Deal
In case you’ve been pondering what your kids will think of you in 20 years, Eliot Glazer has provided you with the answer. It comes courtesy of his Website, My Parents Were Awesome. Oh, and now it’s headed to a coffee table near you. Glazer, a blogger who believes “Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward, and super awesome,” has landed a book deal with Villard Trade Paperback.
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Finally - A Good Excuse to Eat Bacon
As if Americans needed another excuse to eat bacon . . . here’s another one! Researchers at the University of North Carolina say eating bacon and eggs when you’re pregnant will help with fetal brain development. The study in mice was published in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal January issue. It relates back to other studies done (and published in FASEB) linking choline - one of the ingredients of a greasy breakfast - to brain development. According to the scientists, adding choline will specifically affect the portion of the brain which affects memory.
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Utah Lawmaker Is Surrogate Mom for Gay Couple
Surrogate mothers often try to remain out of the spotlight, but Christine Johnson’s job makes that hard. Johnson is a representative in the Utah Legislature. She also happens to be a lesbian carrying a baby for two gay men in a committed relationship.
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RETROLICIOUS: Gumby and Pokey Toys
When we suggest you buy the Gumby and Pokey set from NJ Croce, we are going to use the word “kids” in quotes. Because, really, you can buy this set for yourself and we’ll never tell. In all their bendable glory, our favorite clay figure is back for our “kids” to spread his legs and help him ride on Pokey, to pretend the Blockheads are driving him nuts and to indulge all our favorite memories of the pre-Pixar days when clay animation was the bomb (what, you’re saying it isn’t?).
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New Kid Lit Ambassador One of the Most Banned
Her most famous book is at number eight on the most challenged books of the nineties, and now Katherine Paterson is the official National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Author of the Bridge to Terabithia, Paterson is both a Newberry Medal and National Book Award winner. Now she’s the second ever person to act as the ambassador for kid lit by the Library of Congress.
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Worst Grandfather Ever Leaves Kid With Axe Wielding Intruder
So you think your grandfather was bad? Danish media have been reporting a grandfather decided to flea into a panic room when an axe-wielding intruder broke into his house, but he left his five-year-old granddaughter out there with him! Kurt Westergaard is a cartoonist in Denmark, and his depiction of the prophet Muhammad had enraged the man who broke in.
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Prop 8 Creator Uncle to Queer Spawn
Just when the Prop 8 mess couldn’t become any more mystifying, the news that Prop 8 creator Frank Schubert is an uncle to two queer spawn is making us go “huh?” Schubert apparently took a page out of the Cheney playbook when he decided to ignore the shining example in his own family of how gay relationships can work well and launch a campaign to keep them from ever gaining legality.
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New Balance Goes Peanuts!
Snoopy is officially kids’ favorite choice for top dog, and now they can wear him on their feet. New Balance has added Peanuts to their popular kids’ kicks line, so your tot can do a Snoopy Dance in style. With Charlie Brown and his Christmas tree, Linus and his Great Pumpkin and other Schulz classics on the outside, plus a cool comic strip running across the inner soles for an extra laugh, they’re the sneakers they can wear to kick the football or prop up their feet for some serious letter-writing (preferably to little red-headed girls).
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Used PSPs Coming Loaded With Porn
Another reason to be flummoxed about frugality: parents who went for a used gaming system for their tot this holiday ended up with their kid taking a gander at some hardcore porn. The Playstation Portable was ten-year-old Kade Goodman’s big present this year, and his dad could only swing it at an affordable used price.
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Spit Up: Dog Bone Toys for Kids
If it wasn’t for the picture with the “Favorite Bone” toys at Design Spray, we might just be writing this up as a straight cool toy for kids. But here’s the picture:
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Evangelical Mom Kidnaps Kid to Keep Her from Lesbian
A mom who converted to evangelical Christianity after ending a lesbian relationship has reportedly taken off with her daughter to keep the child from her ex-girlfriend. Lisa Miller made news mid-last year when she faced jail time for refusing to submit to shared custody with Janet Jenkins even though Jenkins and Miller were legally tied in a civil union at the time of the child’s birth. Because of her refusal, a Vermont judge legally awarded Jenkins full custody in November, with a hand-off scheduled for December. But now Miller and the child are gone.
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What's Eating You? Grossest Book Ever Or Coolest?
Sometimes the best way to relate to your kids is simply to get gross - and if it takes a bedtime story to do it, hey, at least they’re learning. And thank goodness for reprints because Candlewick has re-released the must-have book for getting down on their level. Warning, you may itch uncontrollably after reading this one.
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Hey That Bottle Looks Just Like a Breast
Bottle makers have been trying to get closer and closer to the real thing in recent years - perhaps because they were losing business to all those breastfeeders? But it looks like Mimijumi snipped off the real thing and put it on the bottle.
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Teddy Bear Stuffed With Pot Found in Toy Store
A teddy bear that showed up in a mystery package to a California toy store wasn’t made for a little girl in Mary Janes - it was chock full of Mary Jane. The two-foot tall bear was stuffed with three vacuum sealed packages of pot.
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Giant Rubber Cupcake Chair – Cool Or Creepy?
Why are we a little creeped out by Jellio’s giant rubber cupcake seat? Have you looked at that “chocolate” top? It’s like a giant rubber piece of doggy doo served up in a neon-colored wrapper.
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