We're all still trying to figure out how we feel about children and technology -- especially when it comes to younger kids, like toddlers. How much is too much? Should they avoid tech toys altogether? Shouldn't toddlers just be wandering in sun-lit meadows, picking flowers and creating wet-felted gnomes?

That would be lovely, but it's definitely not the world most of us live in. By now it seems like most parents let their toddlers have at least a taste of screen time every so often. And then there are the parents who give their kids LOADS of screen time. Way too much. Doctors are starting to see the dangerous effects of iPad addiction in toddlers. Yes, toddlers.

I admit, I feel a little defensive about my son's screen time. Letting your child play online, iPad, iPhone, and iDunnowhatelse electronic games and videos these days is up there with letting them eat sugar and food dyes. It's one of the great eeeeevillllls of parenting. I see parents handing their kids screens big and small all the time, and yet, we all claim to have "limits" and we always have a perfectly good excuse for allowing it just this once.

What if we just relaxed and stopped treating screen time like a poison we reluctantly dole out to our kids? What if there were evidence that it's not even as bad as we've been led to believe? What if screen time maybe, possibly, shockingly, teaches our kids something?

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Poor Serena Curtis. All the 31-year-old mother wanted to do was kick back and have a few drinks to unwind with her girlfriend.

According to The Sun, the kids were being taken care of by someone else, so the pair started sipping vino. And kept sipping -- polishing off about two bottles between them. So what kind of crazy conversation they had that led to her crawling into her son's high chair we can only imagine.

I'm sure they had a good laugh ... until she realized she was stuck in there. I mean REALLY stuck.

You know those miracle melamine bowls parents love using for kids? They never break and they've often got your kids' favorite cartoon characters splashed all over them. I grew up eating out of melamine.

Well guess what. You know what's coming, right? THEY'RE TOXIC. Melamine has been linked to kidney stones among other things, and you remember the horrible melamine in baby formula scandal. In a recent study, researchers served people hot noodle soup in melamine bowls. Then they studied their urine to see how much of the melamine had leached out of the bowls. They compared this with people who ate hot soup out of ceramic bowls. The result? Hot soup causes chemicals to leach from melamine bowls. 

Moms, do you feel like there's something missing from your toddlers' lives? Not enough noise, maybe? Not enough electronic gadgets? Do you feel like maybe they're just not getting enough screen time?!? Well here's something we've all been wishing for: iPotty!

It's a potty chair with a holder for an iPad. Now your little darling can watch her favorite cartoons while she makes poopy. Just like Daddy! Oh why oh why did we not hear about this exciting and very necessary wonder before the holidays?

Next week my daughter turns 4, and I'm dreading it. Not just for the usual Oh-my-God-my-baby-is-growing-up kind of reasons, but because it means it's time. Time to finally get rid of her pacifier.

I know. I know. It's long overdue. You don't have to tell me all of the reasons it's ridiculous, and bad, and how I should have gotten rid of that thing a long time ago. Believe me, I wish I had gotten rid of it long ago. But we didn't, and so here we are facing the date that I've told her (and myself) repeatedly that we will not go past without finally making the break -- her fourth birthday.

It's not going to be easy ... for either of us.

Hey toddlers, dying to escape the controlling grasp of your helicopter parents but just too lazy and/or strapped down to simply run away? Have I got a solution for you! Introducing the Robotic Stroller Conversion kit. Basically it's some motors, a Wiimote, and a Kinect sensor, and a bunch of other stuff your parents can add to your stroller so you can freakin' operate it yourself. THE TODDLER REVOLUTION WILL BE MOTORIZED! 

All you have to do is talk (or throw a tantrum, as the case may be) your parents into shelling out $2,500 for the kit and then spending a good part of their weekend cursing and weeping 20 minutes installing the thing. This looks like a fine idea. Can I get a whup whup? Let's see it in action!