While most kids are focused on what apps they can convince their parents to let them download, a 10-year-old from Denver was determined to create one of his own. Fifth grader Daniel Chao wasn't quite sure what kind of app he wanted to make, but after brainstorming with his parents he zeroed in on one of the biggest challenges fifth graders face -- homework.

His parents helped a little with contracts and such, but almost all of the work was his, he told CBS Denver. He did have to submit his proposal to Apple under his dad's name because the company only accepts them from those 18 and above, but based on the passion and intelligence of Daniel, here, Apple might want to rethink that policy.

Poor Lenny Boberg. The 9-year-old from Winona, Minnesota, just wanted to impress his friends and family with a killer rendition of "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson. He studied the King of Pop's moves and tried to replicate them just as Jackson did, leaving no move untouched -- even the infamous crotch grab.

To say the educators at his school -- a Catholic school, mind you -- didn't react kindly is an understatement. In fact, they suspended him saying it fell into the category of "gross misconduct." Watch for yourself and see what you think. The following video is a little blurry, but you can't miss his controversial moves.

A lot of moms are looking at Sheryl Sandberg right now -- she's the COO of Facebook who stands to make a boatload of dough after Facebook completes its IPO. Even without that IPO, her career is one loud feminist roar: Executive positions at two tech giants, Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Treasury. How did she do it, and what does this say about the way we raise our kids?

A writer for Forbes picked up on this quote from a talk Sheryl gave: "We need our boys to be as ambitious to contribute in the home and we need our girls to be as ambitious to achieve in the workforce." In other words, equality at home supports equality in the workforce. So what about teaching your son to contribute in the home? What does that look like?

We were huddled on cramped folding chairs in a frigid room, all of us craning to watch the solemn ceremony we'd been waiting for all morning: the Presenting of the New Belt, Which Is a Lot Like the Old Belt, Except OMFG This One Has a Green Stripe. The karate teacher—excuse me, Sensei—had just handed the much-anticipated new belt to my 6-year-old while I furiously snapped photos, and now he'd turned to the next belt recipient.

"Your daughter's next," my husband told the woman next to us, who was awkwardly balancing a camera and a small pigtailed toddler. "Do you want us to help so you can take pictures?"

There was a small flurry of activity, a bunch of thank yous, and somehow I ended up with the little girl on my own lap while her mom aimed the camera at her big sister.

I loved Stephen Colbert's interview with Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak. I knew the writer was kind of a crank, but I didn't realize he was such a droll and charming crank. We share similar political views, apparently, and how delicious that he says he doesn't even write for children. I think it's made his books more fun for the adults who read them to their kids.

My favorite Sendak book is In the Night Kitchen. We've read it so many times now that we almost can't say the word "milk" without adding "for the morning cake!" But the book is probably best known for being banned in libraries all over the country -- including our local library when I was growing up.

The other day, my 3-year-old son walked into the living room, my pink vibrator Rabbit Pearl in one hand and a questioning expression on his face. As I stared at him holding the pink sex toy, half of which looks like a penis, the other half of which looks like a rabbit, I realized this was one of THOSE moments in parenthood, you know, the ones we all dread and wish would never happen but then inevitably happen before we are ready? Yep. This was one of those. And this was my fault. Why had I not invested in a lock?

"What's this Mama? How you play with this?" Before I could dive on it (like I wanted to), he had turned it on, tipped his head to the left, and asked: "Why it got a bunny?"

In the area of keeping the porn hidden from the babies, mommy had just had a major FAIL.

Last month, 2-year-old Michael Gipson was eating a peppermint candy in his Jonesboro, Georgia home. When he started to choke, his 8-year-old brother, Malik, tried to call his parents for help, but they were outside doing yard work and didn't hear him over the sound of the leaf blower.

Understanding that his brother's life was in jeopardy, Malik took matters into his own hands. He'd seen the Heimlich maneuver on television before, and so he tried it himself as his great grandmother, Elaine Pines, watched in awe. She told CBS Atlanta, "He kept doing it, he kept doing it, and after a while that peppermint went 'choop'!"

It's amazing that Malik was able to think so quickly and knew what to do. What could have happened if he hadn't -- his baby brother choking to death -- is too horrifying to imagine.

When my kids were smaller, it seems like I was always pointing the video camera in their direction. First steps, first words, first deliberate face-plant into a chocolate birthday cake (that would be my older son) ... I tried to get as much footage as possible back then, because I knew how amazing it would be to revisit those early moments when they were older.

I'm so glad I did this, because now I don't have to rely solely on my treacherous memory for some of those milestones. I can watch both my sons learn how to walk, over and over. (And I cry like a giant dork every single time.)

Lately I haven't been using the camera as much. They're moving too fast, for one thing. It seems like we're all too busy to stop and press record (not that that's a bad thing).

So I recently started a new video project, just for fun. I call it the How to Do Everything Series—one which involves, mainly, my kindergartner doing what he likes to do best: tell you the right way to do things.