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Eugene Foster, a 31-year-old man, found a nude picture of his girlfriend's daughter on her phone and decided to teach her a lesson by sending that naked picture of her to everyone on her contact list. Uhh... yeah, that's pretty much historically horrible parenting. More »
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If you have aspirations of your bundle of joy being one day accepted at Harvard, winning a Nobel Prize, or even exploring the stars, starting them off with baby rattles and pacifiers isn't going to cut it. More »
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Back in the olden days of photography, big box cameras had slow as snails shutters so it was nearly impossible to get kids to sit still for the duration of the long exposure. If they moved, the pictures would be blurry! So what was the old photog solution? Why let's have their mothers hide under blankets and blend into the background to comfort the kid! More »
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Videos of semi-terrified kids having their teeth yanked by others in crazy ways are a dime a dozen. That's why we love this fearless and adorable kid who yanks his own tooth with a Nerf bow. Nice technique, baller kid! [via Wimp] More »
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Though it looks the part, this stool isn't a training potty—but it will take the piss out of your kids. It's actually a giant sand timer designed for time outs, sequestering rowdy ruffians for a calming five minutes. More »
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You know what kids don't deserve? Free pudding. And you know why? Because they're too damn eager. Puppy dog eyes may work on spineless parents, but they're not gonna move Kraft's stone hearted sample dispenser. More »
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If you don't have kids, there are probably knives, prescriptions drugs, poison, and electronics lying everywhere. But now the family is coming to visit with something that could destroy everything you love: Children. More »
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It's funny, when I was a kid there was a huge move away from realistic toy guns—and playing "guns" in general. Now apparently the pendulum has swung back: you can buy your kid a 15-plus-inch toy baton and handcuffs for playing "FBI." More »
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I love it when old people try to understand the inner workings of the teenage brain. Like if they think hard enough they'll figure out why little Amanda sneaks out at night. Please. Kids are kids! So parents, just understand that you'll never understand the advanced and possibly unreal sexting terminology of your kids. More »
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I'm going to go out on a really, really long limb and assume that this wasn't the safest restraint system for kids in cars. But HOLY SHIT does it look fun. I was clearly born in the wrong era. [Vintage Ads via Boing Boing] More »
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The Mouriz School is too cool for school. By day, its students frolcik and play outside its random lines and dark wood veneer. By night, however, the entire scene becomes one from a Pixar short. Fascinating stuff. More »
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We tell our children stories about fairies and giants and wizards and trolls—all still favorites, even as an adult. So let's not stop with the fables. But can't we also share with kids the wonders of what's real? More »
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Emily Baldry, an adorable 5-year-old girl from the UK, was doing what a normal kid her age would be doing: Hanging out at with her family and digging. Unlike other normal kids though, she found a 160 million year old fossil. She called it Spike. More »
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So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. More »
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Not satisfied with trying to outrun trains, looney kids are now latching onto the side of a MOVING train and playfully dodging things that they pass by. Right when you think they'll smash into a pole, they manage to stay alive. It's insane. More »
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Dear Disney, More »
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It's an ordinary camera lined with Sugru silicone rubber, which is kind of like clay but also sorta like duct tape. Once attached to something, Sugru sets itself permanently. Like this camera. Watch it roll around on the street. More »
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Filed in things I'm going to do when I'm a dad: when my lazy punk of a son refuses to get out of bed, he's going to get shot with a super soaker. With no mom in sight, he's dead meat. More »
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Learning how to ride a bike was, sadly, one of the most difficult parts of my childhood. I just couldn't seem to "get it." I get this Tron-inspired learning scooter just fine though. Why is it only a concept? More »
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"Mommy look! I'm just like that painted crazy man who sang all those songs I used to catch you and daddy wrestling to when I was younger!" $10. The sideways looks from other moms are free. [Neatoshop via Neatorama] More »
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A curious father strapped a GoPro camera onto his daughter's head to see what her life was like. Unsurprisingly (or surprisingly!), it was completely random, sometimes shrieky, borderline drunk, mostly unbalanced but oh so incredibly fun. [Reddit] More »
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According to GigaOm, Netflix is testing a new kid-friendly UI. They're organizing videos by cartoon characters and stripping as much text as they possibly can. That way, kids can just click on Blue from Blue's Clues or Hello Kitty to watch their favorite shows. More »
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The NY Times has a story about how a conference was held to teach 200 teenagers from Boston how to have "healthy breakups". Unsurprisingly, a lot of the discussion revolved around proper Facebook breakup etiquette. More »
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Okay, so it's a pain that every time the littlest thing goes wrong with parents' computer you're their go-to IT guy or gal. But let's be honest: there's something not terrible about being a sci-fi hero—even if the real Neo is a search engine. [TNW via 9gag] More »
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My front tooth is fake. It's a remnant of when I was a kid, and smacked into the jungle gym. That would never happen today, because kids' playgrounds are so much safer. As it turns out, that's a bad thing. More »
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If your little brother loses a tooth, what's in it for you? The little dope gets sweet Tooth Fairy scratch and you're left holding the bag. Unless you decide to play dentist with a long string and a mini-motorcycle. More »
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Have you seen kids play with iPads before? They're enchanted by them, mesmerized by the interaction. For some reason, they just speak them. LeapFrog thinks so too, that's why they're making a tablet for kids. More »
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When I was growing up, you weren't a kid if you didn't have a sword. Foam, plastic, or even just a tree branch. Naama Agassi's Branch Holder is an elegant reminder of that time when you could really be the neighborhood samurai. More »
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Taylor Wilson built a functioning device that can detect nuclear weapons smuggled in cargo containers. He's 17. It works via a nuclear fusion reactor that he also built. When he was 14. More »
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When last we saw Fijit, it was part of a giant swarm of its cutesy-robo prototype sisters, unsettlingly singing along with a shockingly-enthusiastic booth attendant. It was... a sight! Now the Fijit's in its completed retail form. And still bizarre. More »
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Classroom warfare is tough. You have teachers hounding your stash, cute girls to impress, punk kids coming up with punkier ways to punk you—basically a lot to worry about. That's why you need this rubberband shooting ruler. More »
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I wish I could have a button to turn an overlay manga track over all my reality. As this music video shows for Is Tropical, by The Greeks, it makes everything so much more fun. More »
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This is Tyler. He's three. Last week, he found himself trapped in a glass cage, surrounded by stuffed animals and one giant claw. It was a prison of his own making. And he's not alone. More »
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Ivan Stoiljkovic, a 6-year-old boy from Croatia, might be the next Magneto. He can stick frying pans, spoons, forks, irons, dumbbells, coins and anything metallic onto his chubby stomach. Great power to have, right? Yup! Too bad he's not magnetic. More »
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Boys will be boys? A 12-year-old and 9-year-old hopped into an excavator, drove it around a strip mining site and destroyed anything that got in their way. It got pretty bad. They flipped over a bulldozer, smashed windows and sprayed fire extinguishers at whatever they could find. The total damage the two boys caused is estimated to be $164,000. More »
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I don't care who you are: growing up is hard. Particularly if you're growing up gay or transgendered in an unsupportive environment. But what all of these people—the Apple Employees in this video, the Google employees before them, and countless others—say is true: it gets better. It really, truly does. [AppleEmployees] More »
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No, I'm not going to draw any parallels to Fukushima because there are none. And no, there are no Chernobyl kids with a dozen eyes or giant legs, but this film is so charged with symbolism and sadness that it needs its own titanic concrete sarcophagus. More »
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This won't appeal to those of us without children, but you've gotta admit the animation of this Nursery Rhymes with StoryTime app is absolutely stunning. Provided the child has an iPad, iPhone 4 or 3GS, you can read aloud to them from anywhere there's Wi-Fi available. More »
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Apparently 80% of children age five and under are active internet users, according to a recent study. So that's where all those illiterate YouTube comments come from! Snark aside, there's nothing inherently wrong with kids that young being online, so long as what they're watching is heavily supervised. And given the motor abilities of your basic pre-schooler, I'm guessing they're not typing in too many URLs on their own. [Mashable] More »
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