Quick, when was the last time your kid saw some other kid's privates? A kid of the opposite gender, I mean? When I was growing up, this was sort of a given. I'm the oldest of five children, so I saw all my sibs' diapers getting changed. And I saw my friends' mothers changing their babies' diapers. And I saw diapers getting changed at church. From an early age, I learned that little boys look different -- and it wasn't a big deal at all.

So it's just been weird to grow up and discover some people think children should be shielded from the horrifying knowledge that there are babies out there with DIFFERENT GENITALS! I mean, from there it's just a slippery slope of childhood corruption. Sayonara to your little darlings' shattered innocence. Now she knows there's such a thing as a penis -- OH MY GOD, you didn't tell her that's what it's called, did you?!?

We should teach our toddlers to share, right? This is something we all agree about. Or so I thought, until I saw this article, Stop Telling Your Toddler to Share! What the -- no sharing? (And was that exclamation point really necessary?) I've gotta hear this one. What, it teaches them to be passive and let other kids walk all over them?

Nope, that's not it at all. Child development specialists say that your child is almost -- but not quite -- ready to share. And if the whole point of teaching your kids to share is to teach them to care about other people, no worries there. Your toddler already knows a lot more about being good social actors than you realize.

One thing I miss about having toddlers: The world is truly a magical place in their eyes. Watching our kids gradually replace the assumption that anything is possible with boring old logic and reason is kind of sad, quite frankly. So we do everything we can to prolong those years of magical thinking, like the trick little Quentin's dad is playing in this video. It's not a mean trick or anything -- he's just somehow led his son to believe that he can turn the electric fireplace on and off by waving his arm and saying "Fire, ON!" "Fire, OFF!"

It's freaking adorable. Look, someday he'll figure out how the fireplace really works. So what if he grows up thinking he has secret Gandalf-ian powers? You shall not pass!!

Here are a few things we like to do to make our kids think they're magic (because they are, after all).

Most of you are probably way, way too young to remember the TV show Square Pegs (featuring Sarah Jessica Parker in her pre-pre-pre-Carrie Bradshaw days), but that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this clever toddler's shape-sorting shortcut. See, the title of the show was, of course, based on the saying "You can't fit a square peg into a round hole" (Parker played a not-so-popular high school student) and the whole point was how square pegs shouldn't try to fit into round holes because there ARE square holes (work with me here) where they WILL fit in, but most people still spend their entire lives trying to squeeze into the wrong shape. 

Except I don't think this kid will turn out to be one of those people. Granted, her way of, um, "playing" this shape-sorting game isn't exactly the way it was intended to be played ...

Can I ever get enough of the videos with toddlers mispronouncing words to sound like they're cussing? No! I cannot! Here's a video of a little boy saying "dump truck" over and over again. Guess what it sounds like he's really saying? I'll give you a hint: It rhymes with "crumb luck." And thanks to the wonders of technology, this golden moment of innocent childhood has been preserved for all of us to enjoy.

So here you go. Because it's Friday and you could use a good laugh. And because this is not your child. But you've probably heard something similar come out of your own kid's mouth at some point -- accidentally, of course.

Everything is relative, or so the saying goes. Meaning, when your kid is crying over a scraped knee, it probably won't make him feel any better to be reminded about the classmate who broke his leg. Who cares about what that kid did to his leg last summer, my knee hurts right now! But even if kids haven't learned to put their troubles in perspective, the practice can still be a huge sanity-saver for parents.

Especially if you're someone like comedian and dad Louis C.K., whose no B.S. brand of humor puts self-pitying melodrama in its place perfectly. As you'll see in this footage, taken from the comic's appearance on Jay Leno's couch, when what started out as banal banter turned into a scathingly funny send-up of privileged American kids, racism, and more.

The average 3-year-old doesn't get inducted into Mensa. But Sherwyn Sarabi is not the average 3-year-old. At 3 years old, most kids are still working on learning their colors and shapes. Which is perfectly appropriate, developmentally speaking. Sherwyn, however, is way beyond the phase of finding blue triangles and yellow squares: With an IQ of 136, Sherwyn could read, count to 200, and correctly identify countries, flags, planets, and parts of the body by the time he was 2. Sherwyn's mom said she didn't realize there was anything out of the ordinary about her son's smarts ... initially.

You might want to start paying close attention to what you're thinking around your kids, because new research indicates that toddlers can actually read our minds. (Isn't that just great?)

Yep, children all over the world were studied, and the results were published in the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society: B. Researchers found that toddlers as young as a year-and-a-half are able to figure out what we're thinking.