Hot Celebrity Mom: Nicole Richie

Nicole Richie is the mother of a baby boy girl and the daughter of Lionel Richie. How bout it noodads: hot or not?

Forget Ordinary Housecats, Buy Your Kid a Mini Tiger!

Looking for a new household pet for you and your kids to play with and snuggle up to? How about a mini-tiger? These “Toygers” are, according to their website, “…a designer cat. It is designed and bred with the demands of modern apartment life as a human companion foremost in mind. Glittered, pelted, dramatic pattern appeals to both the high-tech glamour and nature-loving, wild dreams of city-caught people while the laid back, easily trained character of these cats make them a joy to live with.”

Toygers, They’re Grreat!

Super Blockmasta Kidestructo: The Game

Here”s a game you and your wife can play with your baby or toddler. It”s competitive, has sweet rewards, and your kid will get exercise. Now what”s better than that? Learn about the fun new craze that will sweep baby nation, Super Blockmasta Kidestructo: The Game

Here”s what you will need to play the game:
• 2 sets of building blocks (Not LEGO or anything that snaps together)
• A crawling or barely walking baby
• A desire to kick your wife”s butt in everything you do
• A willingness to bet on your building skills or pay the price

Here’s how to play:
Position you and your wife between 5 and 10 feet from each other. You and your wife each builds a tower of blocks. Once the towers are built, place your kid in the middle.The goal is to try and get your kid AKA Super Blockmasta Kidestructo to knock down the other person”s tower. So as you and your wife are furiously building towers, your kid is getting a workout of epic proportions.

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How YouTube Can Accidentally Exploit Your Kids

Have you seen this recent YouTube phenomenon? It features a cute 3 year old girl explaining the plot of Star Wars. She has great lines like, “Don’t talk back to Darth Vader, he’ll get ya!” and “he tried to block the little poke ball” and calls Obiwan, “Obie Kenobi”.

The point is, it is damn cute and thousands of people have watched it and have made comments on the YouTube page. But then something happened. Read the rest of this entry »

Want Your Kids to Speak Chinese? Watch Nihao Kai Lan

China’s population represents 20.8% of the global population. It is also emerging as the next giant world economic power. China has not shown any interest in changing its official language or moving away from using 汉字 (characters) for their writing. While many Chinese speak English and in many places there is English signage (some of it pretty hilarious), business in China is still conducted in Chinese.

Kids have the capacity to learn anything, even a tonal language with writing that gives you no clue as to the tone or pronunciation. Sure, it takes a lot of practice and dedication. Actually, it takes a LOT of time and dedication and practice and usage, but in the end it is worth it because the language is incredibly useful

Now that you’re sold, how do you get the kids learning Chinese? If they are little (3-6), consider the new show on Nick Jr, Ni Hao Kai Lan. Kai Lan Chow is a bubbly, Dora-like cutie-pie who loves to play games and do cool activities with her friends. She speaks both English and Mandarin Chinese, mostly weaving the latter in when she is talking to both her friends and your kids. The show also deals with behavior issues that kids have and tries to teach them how to be patient and how to share. The sage for advice is Kai Lan’s 爷爷 （yeye) which is Chinese for paternal grandfather. He teaches the kids about Chinese culture, makes them dumplings and Chinese New Year dinner, performs taiji quan and supervises fun activities like backyard camping, a dragon parade and dragon boat races.

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Woman to Give Birth on Her 7th Birthday

Yes, that’s right, this woman is pregnant and is about to give birth on her 7th birthday. Ok, so she was born in 1980 but this woman was born on a Leap Year so she has only had 6 birthdays so far. The real story is she is pregnant and, if she doesn’t deliver earlier, will be induced on February 29th. That means that her child will also be born on a Leap Year day.

One out of every 1,461 people is born on Leap Day. Read more here.

Elmo Wants to Kill Your Children

Apparently that cuddly red monster in your kids rooms may want to kill them. There is a story out of Florida of an Elmo doll that has been threatening the kid of the house with the words, “Kill James”. The kid, named James, obviously is terrified and so is his mother who complained to the company.

It happened after Melissa Bowman changed the batteries in her son’s Elmo Knows Your Name” doll. If you ask me, that name has monster to kid molestation written all over it.

If you recall, not only does Elmo want to kill your kid, Bert works for the Taliban. Recently, Elmo was spotted chilling with Chucky at the local Sesame Street Gun Shop.

Read more of the story here. And if you want to see more Lindsay Lohan/Marilyn pics click here.

Are Teen Spy Stickers Good Parenting or Lazy Parenting?

If you are the parent of a teenager, you probably spend countless hours a week worrying about your kid driving or getting into a car of one of their friends.

There is a company called Teen Spy that allows you to actually spy on your kids when they are out on the roads. No, this isn’t a network of security cameras spread out across your town. It is spying in the form of a bumper sticker.

You know when you pull up behind a truck at a stop light and the truck has a “How’s My Driving?” sticker with a phone number to report poor or dangerous driving to the company that employs him or her? Well, this works the same way. You pay a registration fee, a yearly fee, and you get a bumper sticker with reference number to slap onto your kid’s car. Read the rest of this entry »

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What’s in the Diaper: The Inside Poop on Poop

THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 2006

Among the litany of items on your hospital’s Jiffy Lube Signature Service-esque checklist of newborn must-do’s is the critical first deuce. The inaugural bowel movement kicks off a new world for you—one where you’ll be privy to more ass-muck than a Port-A-Potty at a chili cook-off. Along this soiled road you’ll experience an array of textures, a host of nauseating scents, and more shades of brown than Benjamin Moore’s color wheel; especially in the first year. Here’s a primer on your child’s excrement evolutionary chart. Read the rest of this entry »