Somewhere, MCA is smiling. 

There's no way founding Beastie Boys member Adam "MCA" Yauch, who sadly passed away on May 4 at the age of 47, wouldn't get a huge kick out of this remake of the Beasties' classic "Sabotage" video ... starring three little kids.

Awesome dad and talented filmmaker James Winters cast his sons and nephew in this project to honor the late rapper, and I can't think of a more fitting tribute.

Ah, Mother's Day. It's that one day of the year when we all (hopefully) stop to think about all our mothers have done for us. Some choose to wax poetically about all of the amazing love and support they have received from their mother over the years, or give tear-inducing recounts of the bond they share or the hurdles they've overcome together. And that's fine, but when it comes to motherhood, sometimes the most appropriate sentiment is laughter.

Especially as a mother myself now, I know that you have to have a sense of humor when it comes to the challenges we face, otherwise, we'd all be locked up somewhere with padded walls. So if your mom is one who likes to see the humor in her role too, here are six awesome eCards (including the hilarious one above about the dumpster) to show her how much you love her and love laughing with her.

Get ready for your weekend inspiration, everybody, with a side of musical accompaniment. What's better than that? I can tell you what's better than that, if Billy Joel himself waltzed into 6-year-old Ethan's house and sat down on the bench for a rollicking rendition of "Piano Man." Not that Ethan's version needs any help. Did I mention Ethan was only 6 years old?

Yes, this kid is only 6 but can pound that piano in a way that will put the average "Chopsticks" player to shame. Also, his passion for singing is quite extraordinary.

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Kids are so adorably, impulsively, inconsiderately cute. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to pick Girl Child up from school or dance practice or church school or summer camp and watched her come barreling from afar with another little girl in tow, grinning and bustling along with that urgency that quickens the step of someone who’s about to put her mother in an awkward situation. And then, the inevitable question: “Mommy, can this-child-who’s-standing-right-here spend the night? Pleeeeease?” Punctuated with big, doey eyes and electrifying smiles. 

I love having all of the girls over (and my godson, Arian, who also comes to DC from Philly to hang out with us throughout the year). But I’ve had to let parents know that once their kids are in my care, I’m going to treat them just like they’re mine. That includes a set of ground rules that apply to everyone, visitors and regulars alike:

We all know that the days of letting kids out to run the streets and telling them to be back before dinner are long gone. It would be startling, to say the least, to see a roving pack of neighborhood kids kicking cans down the street and enticing a stray dog to come along for the ride. While we always say this shift is due to neurotic parents who are over-hyping the danger of allowing kids to be on their own, one blogger created a chart that shows the flaw in this simplistic explanation.

In fact, many factors go into this when it comes to how much outdoor time our kids are getting these days. From long commutes cutting into the evening prime "play time" hours to kids making friends outside of their neighborhoods, Rethinking Childhood lays out some pretty compelling reasons why we won't find our kids engaged in a game of stick ball in the street.

In my family, however, there is one more huge reason why we don't have a ton of outdoor playtime. Me.

As the mother of two little girls, I do my best to shield and protect them from the evil that exists in the world. At the same time, I’m slowly trying to teach them life skills that will help them navigate the world as strong, powerful, beautiful-on-the-inside-and-the-outside ladies.

That does not include putting them on HBO to suck on plastic penis-shaped cups in a failed attempt at humor. I’m not sure what kind of mother does that to her little girl, but it’s one that needs to sit down and reexamine her priorities. 

Thanks to the new video series Real Moms of CafeMom, we're all getting a peek into the lives of CafeMom members. First up is Cody, who came up with a fantastic way for kids to stow away all their toys. She pretty much took the phrase "necessity is the mother of invention" and sewed it up into these adorable, monster-shaped hanging storage bags called Mon-Stors.

In the video you'll see they're wildly imaginative and fun. It's a brilliant idea that started out as a simple storage solution in her own home and blossomed into a cottage industry. And then Cody pushed the idea into two inspired projects -- one that's just in time for Autism Awareness Month.

Brooke Harris is out of a job as a Michigan teacher. But she’s not exactly sure why. All she knows is that her dismissal stems from encouraging her middle school students to raise money for the family of slain teenager Trayvon Martin. Lots of organizations are rallying not only for the arrest and prosecution of George Zimmerman, but to fundraise and defray the legal expenses Martin’s parents have accumulated just trying to bring their son’s alleged murderer to justice.

This is where good teaching came back to bite her in the hindparts: Harris initially gave her journalism students at Pontiac Academy for Excellence an editorial-writing assignment on the shooting. But the kids felt led to do more, and Harris says she asked the school's administrators if the eighth graders could pay $1 for a dress-down day, a popular fundraising tactic at schools that require uniforms.