As a parents, one comes to expect certain standards from the companies which manufacture the toys we waste our children's eventual college funds purchasing: Durability (hopefully); the capacity to entertain our kids for brief intervals ... maybe even teach them stuff! At the very least, we assume the playthings we buy our kids will be appropriate. So you can imagine the shock Massachusetts dad Josh Stearn experienced when he realized the package of LEGO stickers he bought his 4-year-old son included the image of a construction worker waving and shouting “HEY BABE!”

Stearns posted photos of the stickers online, writing: “I was so disappointed to see the brand affiliated with a product that normalized street harassment and cat-calling."

I don't want to say toddlers are completely irrational little creatures ... but toddlers are completely irrational little creatures! For first-time parents, learning how to survive in The Land Logic Forgot can be quite a challenge -- you never know what's going to flip your kid's switch from the "cute and funny" setting to "cyclone of sobs, screams, and flailing limbs." At first, toddler tantrums seem to make no sense at all: Really? He's throwing a fit over the color of his pants?! Until, that is, you learn to let go of that whole "making sense" thing and just roll with whatever seemingly benign circumstance happens to turn your kid into a raging lunatic on any given day. Read on for some of the most common -- and most unexpected -- toddler tantrum triggers we've seen.

Ahhhh ... spring is finally here -- and as a mom who lives in the northeast, I'd like to put an extra emphasis on FINALLY.

It's been one heck of a winter, to say the least, and after being cooped up inside the house for what seems like an eternity, getting outside for a breath of fresh air is, well -- a breath of fresh air.

And even though spring is always a welcome season no matter how old your kids are, moms of toddlers are even more ready and willing to embrace it. Because, you know -- trying to keep a little kid entertained inside the confines of your house on a daily basis gets really old, really fast.

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 ...

Everybody say, “Awww!” In a recent interview with Access Hollywood, Shaun Robinson caught up with powerhouse singer Alicia Keys about her Set the World on Fire tour and, maybe more importantly, her son’s love life.

Keys’ 2-year-old son with husband Swizz Beatz seems to have a little crush on Blue Ivy, the toddler daughter of fellow music sensations Beyonce and Jay-Z. When asked if “little Egypt” had a crush on her, Keys laughed and said, “Someone has a crush on someone. That’s for sure.”

It warms my heart to know that cats and dogs and have achieved peace in our time. I know plenty of people who live with both, and everyone gets along beautifully. But cats and toddlers? That's a whole 'nother story. I don't know that cats and toddlers were ever meant to live under the same roof with each other.

Well, maybe it's okay if you've got a sweet, mellow, older cat. Then you're fine. But a toddler with a temperamental cat is just asking for trouble. What do you do if your cat and toddler just don't get along?

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