Looking for ways to entertain your toddler? Here's a fun idea: Give your kid an impossible task. Poor little Michael has been given the Sisyphean feat of closing the kitchen cabinet doors. Easy enough ... except that those doors won't stay shut. It's like the LOL version of "When God closes a door, He opens a window." When Michael closes a cabinet door, another one opens. Over and over and over again. And the little guy is so sweet and patient about it! You have to see this video.

Oh parents, why would anyone do this? A video has surfaced showing a toddler driving a truck. Granted, the toddler is sitting on an adult's lap, and the adult is the one with their foot on the gas (and hopefully also the brakes). But it's a toddler, sitting there, hands on the wheel.

MAYBE if the toddler were driving through the middle of the desert, without even so much as a tumbleweed in the way, this might be all right. But this little guy is driving through a residential neighborhood. Oh yeah, and I guess it goes without saying that the toddler wasn't wearing a seat belt.

When you are the parent of a little boy, prolonged periods of quiet time are few and far between. They're wonderful, don't get me wrong, but they're not very common. So when all of a sudden you realize that you haven't heard any shouting or thumping or crashing or singing coming from your kid's room for a while, your first reaction is one of panic. Wow, he sure is being quiet ... why the hell is he so quiet?! Then all the possible scenarios start rushing through your head: You'll open the door and every inch of that bedroom will be covered in baby powder or finger paints or pudding or feathers or whoknowswhatall!!!! So you run, run as fast as you can and open the door ... and if you're this mom, you find a big surprise.

How is "princess culture" working out -- for our sons? Blogger Dresden Shumaker says it leaves boys behind for all the wrong reasons. Moms may love the female empowerment messages girls are getting now: You can be anything! You can be frilly and pink, and you can be strong and adventurous. It's an exciting message for girls to get -- but are we giving boys the same breadth of possibilities?

"Within modern girl power, there seems to be a message that girls are better than boys," Shumaker says. "Boys are BAD. Boys are MEAN. Boys are silly, weak, stupid, clueless, rough." But her son is none of those things -- and these messages confuse him. When it comes to boys, apparently you cannot be "anything you want to be." At least, not if you want to be a tutu-wearing Dora the Explorer.

I don't know about you, but I can hardly wait for the new Muppets movie to hit theaters in 2014. Word has it Miss Piggy and the gang visit London! But I think I can hold on so long as I can put the latest viral kid video on repeat any time I feel blue. What makes a toddler and her dad singing so cute? I've got two (nonsense) words for you: Mahna Mahna!

Dad Jesse Teeters jokes that this is his "greatest" achievement in 2 1/2 years of parenting, and you're about to see why. Roll the cuteness:

One of the neat things about having kids is that you constantly wish you could freeze time. When they're cute little cooing machines that can barely even roll over, you just wish you could keep them at their age.  Then when they're crawling all over the place and discovering those weird five-pronged appendages at the ends of their arm, you wish they'd stop there.

Just about every stage has its pros and cons and just when you think it can't get any better and you want to master time, you suddenly fall in love with the new stage.

At least that's how it's been with me and my two boys. Right now I am absolutely loving their ages (7 and 9), since we can have real conversations, play legitimate games, watch more grown-up TV together, etc.

But that doesn't mean I'm ecstatic to be out of all the other stages. In fact, there are plenty of things about both my kids that I still miss dearly. Especially from the toddler stage. Here's a look at 7 that really stand out in my mind:

This week, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to former active duty Army Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha. In 2009 Romesha had helped repel the deadly attack on Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan and -- hey wait a minute, who is that kid on the podium?!?

Clinton Romesha's toddler son Colin totally upstaged his dad at the White House. And he only got away with it because he's so darn cute! Colin wandered up on the podium, made a grab for the mike, and generally made an adorable spectacle of himself before someone gently guided him off stage. Then he ran back on stage and tried to take his daddy's seat! Daww, enjoy the sweet mayhem in the video.

Four-year-old Petey Rojas is really, really cute. So, to be perfectly honest, I would happily watch him bake Valentine's Day cupcakes even if they came out looking ... nothing like cupcakes. But it turns out the "baking guru" actually has some pretty sweet skills in the kitchen, as this video attests! I mean, I've been baking cupcakes for quite a while now and it's still a struggle to fill those liners with batter and not drip it all over the place. But not this guy! (Plus, the commentary IS adorable.)