Back in the day, The Talk used to refer to the super-awkward birds-and-bees chat every parent dreads having with their kid. Now, there's another "talk" parents wish they could avoid ... The Tech Talk. As in texting and Internet usage and parental controls and what's acceptable and what's potentially life-altering-ly NOT acceptable.

No fun at all, right? Especially considering most of us moms are just as tech-addicted as our kids.

It's The Kristen Chase Show to the rescue!

On this episode, Kristen checks in with Jen Singer, mom of two teens and editor-in-chief of www.MommaSaid.net, to find out how parents should approach The Tech Talk and why it's so important.

I really want to look at the arrest in the decades old Etan Patz case as good news. I'm sure the parents of the little boy who went missing 33 years ago, only to become the first ever "face on the milk carton" are breathing easier today. But what about the rest of us? Does the confession from Pedro Hernandez really make life easier on the rest of us parents?

It's a selfish way to look at this whole thing, I know. Etan Patz' parents have been living with the horror of having said goodbye to their little boy one May day in 1979 and then never seeing him again. The pain is theirs and theirs alone. Except, not really.

Cuts and scrapes are inevitable parts of childhood, but for kids, the sight of blood or nicks on their smooth skin can be traumatic. That's why moms like me horde bandages in every shape, color, and character, because they're often the only way to stop the hysteria over little skinned knee.

My medicine cabinet is currently filled with no less than 10 different varieties, from Dora to Phineas and Ferb. None of those, however, can even compare to the new augmented reality ones from Band-Aid. Yes, I said augmented reality Band-Aids.

At first, I was ready to roll my eyes at yet another way we have to ruin a simple, childhood staple with more screen time. Then I started looking at them further and decided they're pretty brilliant.

Holy smokes, a 3-year-old boy rode his toy motorbike smack dab into rush-hour traffic -- and he was driving against traffic! The little guy was supposedly being watched by his grandpa but apparently not very closely. Boy wonder just drifted right onto the busy road around 5:30 p.m. and had to be rescued by police. Fortunately he wasn't hurt.

But how scary -- in the video you'll see the child driving right into a left-turning lane, so giant bus after giant bus just narrowly misses him. It's like a real-life episode of Little Rascals only nowhere near as cute and funny. Can you bear to watch?

The sign said “Junior Wash $2.95," so while doing laundry at his local laundromat, a Washington man decided to be a funny guy and put his baby inside the washing machine. Only when he closed the door, it locked, and the machine turned on ... with his baby inside the machine.

Horrifying footage shows the baby spinning around in the machine and being bounced around as the parents helplessly try to get him out. For at least a full minute, the baby is in there. You can't tell if water is pouring in or not, but the things that could have happened to this child are unimaginable. Watch the video after the jump, but be warned -- it's pretty disturbing.

Let's set aside extended breastfeeding while on Twitter/Facebook/Time for a moment and jump on something else that gets a lot of moms fired up: Toxic chemicals freakin' everywhere. There's a Stroller Brigade rolling through Washington, DC tomorrow, and they want a safer world for themselves and their children.

The Stroller Brigade is a protest group made up of moms, cancer survivors, nurses, and others who are rallying support for Senator Frank Lautenberg’s (D-NJ) Safe Chemicals Act. That's the bill that would update our country's ridonkulously outdated toxic chemical laws. Mamas be outraged when they read an expose on the chemical industry's corrupt ways.

Go mamas! But do they stand a chance?

There are two kinds of people in this world, I've come to believe: The kind who stay calm in an emergency, and the kind who panic and fall to pieces and make whatever the emergency happens to be even more of a bummer. And apparently age has nothing to do with which category a person falls into, as 4-year-old Grace Varley of Amityville, New York, recently proved.

Because when Grace's 2-year-old brother Myles nearly choked on a chicken nugget, it wasn't their grandmother who saved the day. Nope. See, "Nana" falls into that useless-in-an-emergency category. So when Myles started choking and couldn't breathe, she freaked out, picked him up, and ran outside, screaming for help, much like a (choking hazard) chicken with her head cut off.

Good think Grace kept her wits about her, at least ...

I used to love summer. Hot sun. Barbecues. Fresh-cut grass. And then I became a mother, and thus totally terrified of the water.

Go ahead. Call me neurotic. But when you consider the CDC says drowning is the leading cause of injury death among children 1 to 4 years old, the closer we get to summer, the more panicked I get about all those pool parties and river outing invites. So when I found out May is National Water Safety Month, I knew I had two choices.