toddlers

A clip of a teacher showing kids the proper way to wipe their butts has gone viral. According to romper.com, it isn’t clear where the viral video originated, but the clip “features a teacher sitting on a chair that has two balloons attached to the back of it. Facing away from students,” the outlet writes. The students are […]

CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) — A 3-year-old boy and his 1-year-old brother survived alone for about two days after they were passengers in a single-car wreck that killed their mother in south Arkansas. The older boy was found first, wandering alone on Monday morning along a road in Camden, about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southwest of […]

For part of the country, the school year has already started but in the northeast, parents are putting the finishing touches on preparing their young ones for entry or reentry into academic life. Personally, it marks my son’s first day of school and I’m full of pride and terror.  While veteran parents see the first […]

Kerry Robinson may have the cutest baby girl on the planet. Social media seems to think so. A video with Kerry, who lives in San Antonio, Texas and her one-year-old daughter, Jayde, has gone viral witho over 11 million views. The video shows Kerry and her daughter mimicking the salon experience as Jayde expertly wields […]

When news of the toddler, Lane Graves, who was killed by an alligator at a Disney resort broke, prayers and condolences were offered to the Graves family. But in the same amount of time that the support rushed in, so did the comments from every amateur pundit with an internet connection. So many folks with […]

Just before putting together this week’s post, Liam and I went to the Toys, Tots, Pets and More ( TTPM) showcase in NYC that brought together a number of toy companies, bloggers and YouTube personalities to network and check out the latest in kids entertainment. Surprisingly, there were quite a few parents of color -all […]

Nostalgia is one of those things that keeps us older folks from going bat crazy when the rest of the world seems to want to fossilize everyone over the age of 30. It goes beyond the good ol’ days when “music was still good” and people wore their pants up around their waists. Toys were […]

Being a parent forces you to notice things in your surroundings that may have never before crossed your mind. One of them is the dreaded commute to and from places that aren’t walking distance. It takes damn near the preparation level of a military invasion to almost get it right. I say almost because unless […]

Now that the holiday shopping rush is over, I’d like to open up the discussion to a topic that I find really interesting. Remember that Wal-Mart commercial where the woman and her son are in the store searching for a gift and he reaches up to grab a doll? By the end of the commercial […]

The kids are back in school and before you know it, department stores will beat us all in the head with their in-store holiday playlists.…

The kids are back in school and before you know it, department stores will beat us all in the head with their in-store holiday playlists. Since molding a small, energetic savage into a responsible adult is job where you never get a vacation, I’ve pulled together a few of the parent and kid-friendly gadgets that […]

Just because you’re a parent doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy being productive. Since I’m still the gadget junkie that I was before my little nerd was born, I’ve pulled together five indispensable pieces of technology that can aid any mom or dad with the challenge of getting things done. I’ve learned that it’s a […]