Take off your judgmental hats for a moment on this one and just bask in the adorableness of this father-daughter moment if you can. Yes, the dad curses right in front of his toddler daughter, but it's so damn cute I forgive him.

There they are watching the Celtics basketball together, and the dad is really into the game. The girl is watching right alongside him and echoing his intense reactions to what's happening on the screen. Her little voice and dancing around while she does it just makes it unbearably cute. Watch.

Sometimes the simplest things can be the hardest to explain to kids. For example, what is their shadow? Is it part of them? Why does it change? And can they trade with you?

My 4-year-old is just getting into watching his shadow, and will sometimes give me that accusatory look only a little kid can and wail, "You stepped on my shadow!" I try to explain it doesn't hurt, but no luck.

I think I'll have him watch this video with me.

Parents of autistic toddlers are now getting help from an unexpected place: The iPad and a growing range of apps for autistic kids. These apps can help children express themselves, learn to talk, help you measure their stress level. It's like an amazing shortcut to communicating with your child.

And while an iPad seems expensive, it's far less expensive and smaller than other equipment that does the same things for autistic kids. You can customize some of the apps, uploading photos of the exact things your child wants so they can just point -- without having to negotiate any other distracting images or ideas.

The app revolution is a boon to parents, but experts warn it's not THE answer to everything.

As someone who got her first credit card in college and maxed it within a week and who spent a few of my younger (and slightly irresponsible) years learning the art of balancing a budget without bouncing checks, teaching my children fiscal responsibility is extremely important to me. I want them to learn from an early age how to manage money, save, and not have to learn those lessons the hard way like I did.

So over the years, I've researched and grilled other parents for strategies on how to start money lessons early. Here are five simple ways I've found to teach kids what they need to know about money.

Should kids have to take a maturity test to get into kindergarten? Tennessee legislators seem to think so. They think some young whippersnappers are trying to get into kindergarten too young. So they've introduced a new bill that pushes the cut-off birth date for kindergarten earlier. Kids who aren't yet 5 by August 31 next fall will have to take a maturity test to get into kindergarten. The kindergarten cut-off date was September 30. 

Now a lot of people are saying this is just about money. About 4,200 kids will be affected if this bill passes. But that maturity test? Sounds like a loophole to me. A loophole asking for trouble.

You know what never, ever gets old? Watching toddlers and babies try to eat lemons. That sour-face picker, the little shudder they do -- priceless! I couldn't get enough of it when my son was a toddler.

That's why I've curated this lovely selection of toddlers eating lemons and limes. Watch these kids' faces turn inside-out with sourly sour sourness. Mmm, lemons, tasty tasty.

You know how most moms spend a lot of time worrying about the detrimental effects of our little girls growing up too quickly? Well Tricia, an Oklahoma mom of four, has no problem with the idea; in fact, she's already prepping her 2-year-old daughter, SamiJo, in the fine art of how to work a G-string. And yes, of course, she's one of the moms on Toddlers & Tiaras.

In the episode that aired last night, Tricia was shown shaking her moneymaker in a G-string bikini with a leopard print top just inches from SamiJo's face. Now, I don't necessarily have a problem with toddler girls seeing their mothers in thongs, and if we're being honest, my daughter sees me in one regularly when I change in front of her because I'm a devout hater of pantylines. But it's the way in which Tricia modeled it for her daughter, and more importantly, the reason WHY she did that's so disturbing.

The newest member of the prestigious high IQ club Mensa is 4–year–old Heidi Hankins of Winchester, England. She scored an impressive 159 on the Mensa IQ test, one point shy of that of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. That is quite remarkable.

The test measured her score against her peers of other 4-year-olds; she scored within the top 2 percent (which is the requirement for admission into Mensa). It is noted that children are scoring higher on IQ tests these days, for the sheer fact that parents are educating their children at much younger ages.