You may know the infamous Lenore Skenazy as “the mother who let her nine-year-old ride the New York Subway alone!” The erstwhile New York Sun columnist was widely vilifed after she casually confessed to this in print last April. Finding herself at the center of a media storm, Skenazy defended her actions: “I let him […]

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First the bad news: Despite its name, the Stokke Tripp Trapp—“the chair that grows with the child™”—was not invented by Captain Von Trapp of Sound of Music fame, nor did Harry Houdini ever successfully escape from its five-point safety harness. (It does have at least one celebrity connection; Julianne Moore once donated a “gently used” […]

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This mother-of-three, a former Playboy Playmate, has her own special take on practical footwear. Note that Shauna has had these efficient stilt-shoes individually color coded. This lets her use them as a teaching moment to help her children grasp the difference between “right” and “left,” and also between “sane” and “insane.” (Thanks to FameCrawler.)

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Thanks to the same infertility treatments that gave us Octomom, multiple births are becoming almost as common in the U.S. as The Snuggie. A corollary of this uptick is a new array of tastefully mammoth strollers designed to accommodate triplets, quads, quints, or the alto section of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have to say […]

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As you may have heard, President Obama is one of Earth’s most generous dads. Even when he’s tied up at his neither-square-nor-round office, he gives the First Daughters plenty of love, attention, encouragement, and exactly 100 cents to spend a week. Yes, that’s right. As part of Barack and Michelle’s extreme “normal childhood” plan, both […]

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