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Tales From A Fifth Grade Musical

Posted by Aunt Becky
on May 24, 2012 at 8:37 PM

Monday night was the first I'd heard of it -- my 10-year-old isn't particularly *ahem* organized, so when he thrust the fuck-me-in-the-eyes orange document into my hands, I wondered if I hadn't asked him to clean out his backpack, if I'd have been given any notice whatsoever.

We're working on his organizational skills.

Anyway, Monday night I learned that we'd been cordially invited to his school for his fifth grade musical.

First I'd heard of any musical whatsoever. But that's fine -- we got the information in time.

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Big Kid OMG

Man Punches 10-Year-Old in Movie Theatre for Being 'Too Rowdy'

Posted by Julie Ryan Evans
on May 24, 2012 at 10:25 AM

movie theatre seatI get how frustrated Yong Hyun Kim must have been. The 31-year-old was in a Washington movie theatre trying to be all romantic, watching Titanic in 3-D with his girlfriend. Then the kids in front of him started acting like punks. Just how big of punks is in question, but he says they were yelling, throwing popcorn, and when he asked them to be quiet, they laughed at him.

I can only imagine how angry this made Kim; I would have been pissed too and wanted to do all sorts of things to their smug, rude little selves. The problem is that Kim actually did -- he punched one of the boys in the face. He hit him so hard that he knocked out one of the 10-year-old's teeth and left him with a bloody nose.

"I got so mad that it just happened," he told police.

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Big Kid Stats

Moms Who Work Have It Easy

Posted by Ericka Sóuter
on May 21, 2012 at 10:52 PM

working momTaking care of kids around the clock can be hazardous to your mental health. It's a fact!

A Gallup survey of 60,000 women discovered that stay-at-home moms are more likely to have depression, sadness, and anger than working moms.

Sad, but not exactly a big shocker. It's a grueling existence. Something -- or someone -- always needs to be changed, cleaned, and preened. All it takes is a 10-week maternity leave for a new mom to realize that taking care of kids full-time is literally the hardest gig in the universe. It's no wonder so many woman are excited to get back to the grind. Basically, working moms are getting off easy.

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Big Kid Awww!

Sweet Little Girl Comforts Her Daddy After a Hard Loss (VIDEO)

Posted by Ericka Sóuter
on May 21, 2012 at 7:01 PM

little girl comforts dad

A little girl had to console her dejected dad after his soccer team tied in a professional match. He TIED not lost, mind you. Even so, Dutch soccer player Rogier Meijer was so distraught that he plopped down on the field and sulked. His daughter Saar -- wearing a jersey with her pop's number on it -- ran onto the pitch to try and cheer him up, sweetly putting her hand on his sunken shoulder.

Seriously, who's the grown up here?

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Big Kid LOL

Dad Who Cold-Heartedly Popped 8-Year-Old's Balloons Has Karma to Deal With

Posted by Jacqueline Burt
on May 21, 2012 at 3:36 PM

balloonsHere's a secret:

Whenever I got a balloon as a kid (for some reason I feel like most of them came from the shoe store), I gave it a name and a backstory and, until the day it inevitably popped/fizzled, treated it like an imaginary friend of sorts.

I've never told anyone that story before because, quite frankly, I've always kind of wondered if that was a ... normal ... sort of game for a kid to play.

Normal as in, not the sort of game that would make people worry about you growing up to be a little bit ... off.

So you can imagine my relief when I heard about an 8-year-old girl playing the very same game -- with feeling, apparently. Because when the girl's dad made the tremendous mistake of trying to clean up the deflated remnants of his daughter's birthday party, well ... she left him a rather nasty note:

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Big Kid Mom Moment

My Children Have Blossomed -- Now It's My Garden's Turn

Posted by Aunt Becky
on May 17, 2012 at 7:17 PM

It's hard to believe that someone as clumsy and uncoordinated as me would be a gardener.

Especially considering that I once broke a toe making a sandwich and -- just this weekend -- nearly broke my dishwasher simply by running it. (No, not running INTO it)

But I love to garden.

It's my therapy. The one way I have to quiet my mind and meditate (I never could quite get the hang of sitting quietly and thinking of nothing - I always imagine the next zombie apocalypse or Barack Obama riding a unicorn).

This year? My garden is going to be better than ever.

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Teen OMG

Teen Twitter Fights Are Making Kids Famous in All the Wrong Ways

Posted by Janelle Harris
on May 16, 2012 at 9:00 PM

Teens, TwitterIf you ever browsed World Star Hip-Hop, you would really think our youth are on the fast track to self-destruction. It is depravity on display, to the point that I’m not so sure some folks don’t act a fool just so they can have their video clips featured on the site. But sometimes, it really captures trending behavior that’s both outrageous and appalling. And these doggone Twitter beefs are probably the most troubling. 

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Teen Mom Moment

Mom Confession: I Bribe My Kid to Do as He's Told (VIDEO)

Posted by Jacqueline Burt
on May 16, 2012 at 1:16 PM

cofee shop confessionsHey, everybody bribes their kids now and then, right? One way or another, in some way, shape, or form. As Alex McCord points out in the latest episode of CafeMom Studios' Coffee Shop Confessions, she pays her children for good behavior -- it's called an allowance, and it's the only reason why they make their beds!

Of course the mom featured in this week's all-too-real confession, "I Bribed My Kid for Mother's Day," was talking about a slightly different arrangement ...

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Big Kid Mom Moment

Your Kid Might Be a Psychopath -- But It's Not Your Fault

Posted by Kiri Blakeley
on May 14, 2012 at 11:31 AM

If you're pregnant and read the recent New York Times article about young psychopaths, you probably looked down at your belly and said, "Don't you DARE turn out to be like that!" The piece -- which followed a 9-year-old "psychopath" named Michael -- was absolutely chilling. It asked the question, can young kids really be psychopaths? Can they have no feelings for others, can they be manipulative, can they hate with the venom of an adult? After reading it, I'd have to say the answer to all of that is yes. 

And this is a good thing. Not good that it occurs, but good that people are finally considering the notion that very young children, even children as young as 3 (when Michael began his behavior), can be psychopaths due to genetic and neurological factors. Because for eons bad behavior in children has been blamed on two things: The devil or Mom. And since most of us don't believe the devil possesses children anymore, that leaves Mom.

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Teen Mom Moment

You May Be Tired of Talking About Trayvon Martin, But Teenagers Aren't

Posted by Janelle Harris
on May 10, 2012 at 7:37 PM

Trayvon MartinI remember when Yusuf Hawkins was murdered in Brooklyn. I wasn’t very old, but I can vividly recall being sad, then angry that a group of people felt collectively entitled to take the life of another person based on something as frivolous as their race. No provocation, no just cause, and certainly no remorse.

My mother had purchased the Eyes on the Prize collection, so I had seen more than my share of grainy footage from the Civil Rights era when men and women marched despite being pelted and spit on by antagonists furious at having their way of life and their white privilege threatened by a group of uppity niggers.

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