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I wouldn’t let him drink bath water.

If you haven’t checked out this blog yet, you are in for some LAUGHS.

A day in the life of fashionista momma Marissa Kraxberger

Introducing: The 504

A military family is guest-blogging for us. Must read, guys.

The thing that’s so extraordinary is how the dad expresses his discomfort with a future he didn’t imagine for his kid, but he loves her enough to move past that. - Sasha, our contributing editor 

Are We There Yet?  - the name of our travel blog, and the awesome theme of this cartoon, found by our partnerships gal, Caroline!

Last Friday, Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court threw out the conviction of Alissa Pugh, a Milford woman who delivered her baby own stillborn, breech baby over a toilet in her home , and then hid the infant’s remains in her trash. She’d been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. The court has also ruled that, along with the overturning of Pugh’s conviction, women who choose to deliver their babies without a midwife’s or doctor’s assistance will not be criminalized. Read more

This is quite a predicament. What do you think?

We hear a lot of shocking parenting stories, but here’s a shocking story starring a good samartian: a garbage truck driver saved a baby in a runaway stroller. Click for video

I was getting a mani/pedi the other day and there was a mom in the salon with her two young girls and they were both getting the works. If I had to guess, they were close in age to my kids—probably not quite three and not quite five. Which, to me, is not quite old enough for a professional mani/pedi. Anyone else agree?

Jerad Wheeler, an officer with the DeKalb County Police Department in Georgia, is guilty of kicking a woman in the stomach— a woman who was nine months pregnant, according to Altanta’s WSB-TV news. Read full story

From the “What were they possibly thinking?” section of the news comes this story from Fort Wayne, Indiana, where four children, ages four to seven years old, were rescued after being strapped to the hood of a moving car. Driver Aaron Stefanski and passenger Jessica Clark, both 29, allegedly strapped the children to their vehicle at a Fort Wayne liquor store and drove off, reports CBS affiliate WANE. Read post

Should you hear a knock on your door in the middle of the night, chances are the last thing you expect to see when you answer is a toddler. But for Traci Gilbert of Denver, that’s exactly what she found: a 3-year-old covered in snow standing in her doorway after a car thief found and evicted him from the vehicle, reports the Huffington Post.

For most kindergarteners, a bad day would mean not getting what they wanted for snack time or having to sit next to the kid who always picks his boogers, but one Georgia kindergartener recently discovered a new meaning of bad day when she was arrested and handcuffed by police officers following an alleged tantrum at school. Read full post

I have a four-and-a-half-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl. They bathe together a lot. I know there will be a time when this is not OK, but I’m just not sure when that is…. Read post