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Smackdown: Party On Baby!
Two parents face off - party hardy or give it a rest?
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Environmental Enemy Number One: Moms
New York City is getting tough on going green. Their latest targets? Parents. Moms and dads who leave their cars idling for more than one minute near New York City's public AND prive schools will be slapped with a $100 fine.
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Would You Cheat FOR the Kids?
Think you've heard all the lame excuses someone will give for cheating on their spouse? Here's another: "I'm doing it for my kids." Say what?
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Kindergartner Gets Best Birthday Present EVER
I pride myself on being a pretty good gift giver - at least when it comes to my kid. But I can't top Casey Hurles. The Army specialist came home from Iraq, then let his family wrap him in a box and cart him to son Gabriel's elementary school.
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American Newborn's Stuck in Iraqi Red Tape
Grace Alshemmari had never left the United States before, but when her husband, an Iraqi refugee, wanted to visit his ailing mother, she said OK. She'd be home, she thought, in time to deliver her little boy back in the good old US of A.
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Kid Chokes On Used Condom Left in Hotel Room
A Massachusetts family that made a stop-off on their trip home from Florida is wishing they'd just kept on driving north. Steven and Amy Wolfe and their three kids stayed at the Homewood Suites in Mount Laurel, N.J. for just one night on the trip home to Pittsburgh, Mass. Things went fine until the next morning, when the Wolfes' twenty-two-month-old son picked up something left behind by previous guests and put it in his mouth - something used . . . and made of latex.
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Indian Children Married Off . . . to Frogs
Far be it for me to poke fun at someone else's religion (I have enough problems with my own). But I draw the line at illegal child marriages. Especially when seven-year-old girls are married off to frogs
jeanne
Paging NY State Education: It Snows There
Did you know it snows in New York State? That makes two of us. Now would someone send a memo to the New York State Education Department?
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Pulling the Plug On Plural Pregnancies
The birth this week of octuplets was amazing not just to the world at large but to the doctors who'd been tracking the pregnancy. Could that mean multiple pregancies have gotten out of hand?
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Georgia Family Has Everything They Own Up On EBay
Gregg and Brittiny Peters have put every single item in their household up on eBay. That means the washing machine, the beds, even the family car.
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Sasha and Malia See Hogwarts With Harry
Oh, come on, don't tell me that the scrutiny of every American matters much to Sasha and Malia this week. They just got an offer to tour Hogwarts with Harry Potter himself.
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Destroying Kids As We Know Them . . . Or Not
To counter the Toy Industry Association's TOTY (Toy Of The Year) Awards on February 15, CCFC is asking parents to put in their votes for the TOADY of 2009. Their picks are perfectly annoying, I'll grant you.
jeanne
Kid Cons Cops and Winds Up On Patrol
A man walked into a police station and told the cops he had been sent over from another sector of the city. Except the guy the Chicago PD sent out on patrol for an afternoon shift with another officer wasn't a man at all; he was a fourteen-year-old wearing department-issue trousers and a shirt and hat.
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Child Matador's Killing Bulls, Kicking Up Controversy
Remember Michelito Lagravere, the child matador who had people up in arms over his sixty kills last summer? He's back, and he's upped his numbers. Little Michelito killed six young bulls in a ring in Southeastern Mexico last weekend, a feat his parents have sent on for possible inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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School Game Ends 100-0, Who Won?
Remember when you lost your high school game and your mother told you to stop crying, "it's only a game"? Let the record show, Mom was right. Because a Dallas, Texas coach who left the first string in to bring the score to 100 to 0 against a team made up of children with learning disabilities, is nothing but a big loser.
jeanne
Web Index of Recalled Peanut Butter Products Available
To make things a little easier on us, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set up a searchable index of recalled peanut butter products.
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Kids in Gaza Weigh in On Obama
Think it's just the adults who got emotional at the peaceful transition of power in America? Kids around the world were celebrating the inauguration of President Barack Obama too - from Israel to the Palestinian Authority, China to England.
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Mom Sells Daughter's Soul to a British Tabloid
There are days go by when your kids drive you nuts, no question. But do you ever stop loving them? If you did, would you tell a British tabloid? Shelley Price got the burden of eleven years off her chest to the Daily Mail this week, telling the paper she just can't bring herself to love the little girl she had with an ex-boyfriend eleven years ago
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Crafty: President Obama, Cube Style
The folks at Cubeecraft have done up 44 so you can download him, print him, and let the kids get to work cutting along the lines (good practice for kindergarten!). The folding part is rated two scissors, which means "there is a shape that needs to be cut with an exacto besides a straight line (such as a beard or other detail.)", so you'll need to lend a hand.
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"Dads" Want DNA Testing in Kansas
a baby. Now the State of Kansas wants him to pay for a child genetic testing proves isn't his because he's the "presumed father." A bit presumptuous, aren't they?
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