Do you and your kids love those handy packaged toddler meals? Well you may love them less when you find out what's lurking in them. New research by the Centers for Disease Control reveals that most toddler food is alarmingly high in sodium. Over a thousand baby and toddler foods from the most popular brands were scrutinized, and the results should put us all on notice.

The good news is that baby foods tend to be lower in sodium. But that leap to toddler food means a giant leap in sodium. Over 75 percent of toddler foods are high in sodium -- meaning more than 210 milligrams. In fact, some foods had as much as 630 milligrams per serving! Keep in mind, a toddler's daily limit of sodium should be 1,500 milligrams. Did you know this? What should moms do?

Another Bad Parenting video is going viral, and this one's a shocker. The video shows a mom letting her toddler smoke pot from a bong. I'll let that one sink in. A woman put an active bong in her 22-month-old son's face, and she let someone take a video of her doing it. At the risk of stating the obvious, this mama must have been high.

Twenty-four-year-old Rachelle Braaten was arrested for "delivery of a controlled substance to a minor" -- and for the manufacture of marijuana. When cops came to investigate, they found 40 marijuana plants in the home. So. What does Rachelle have to say for herself? When you hear her explanation for the video, you may lose all hope in the human race.

Imagine your baby has cancer -- and it gets so hopeless and awful for her, you face an awful decision. Undergo risky surgery, or give her a gentle release from life? Danielle and Brett Matney were faced with this awful choice when their 17-month-old daughter, Addi's, struggle with cancer took a dire turn.

Addi had developed tumors on her liver that were so large, removing them might destroy her liver altogether. There was a long waiting list for a donated liver. And worst of all, Addi's doctors weren't optimistic that she would even survive the surgery. Should they keep fighting, or had they already lost the fight? Addi answered that question for her parents.

This story could have had a horrible ending. A toddler fell from a third-story window -- and survived! Not only did he survive, he landed on his feet and hardly suffered a scratch. Man, are kids resilient or what?

Mom Jessica Hayes was steam cleaning her carpets when she moved a sofa next to a window. Her son, Dylan, hopped onto that sofa and started talking out the window to a neighbor outside. Apparently he was leaning on the screen and it tore. Dylan went somersaulting out the window to the sidewalk below. "I fall ... really really far!" he later told a reporter.

Every once in a while I'll see a toddler in glasses, and I'm surprised kids can wear glasses at such a young age. But it makes me wonder, should we be paying attention to our kids' vision so early? Does it even matter at this point -- and do glasses even do anything for kids who just barely started walking?

According to optometrist Dr. Mel Friedman, it does matter, and your toddler may sent you clues that he or she needs a vision test. This is not something you should postpone until your child is ready for school, he told Mother Nature Network. And early intervention can help correct some vision problems at a surprisingly early age. Here's what you should look for.

Maybe you're okay with your kids eating artificial sweetener. Maybe you're not. Either way, you'd probably want to know if it was in your child's food, right? If a current petition from two major dairy organizations is successful, the FDA could begin to allow aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to be added to milk and other dairy products WITHOUT a label. On the basis that doing so will "promote healthy eating" in children. Which is kind of ironic, considering the FDA actually banned aspartame ... twice.

And with good reason.

Just the thought is horrifying to most parents. A child that can't sleep. Not just won't sleep, but can't. After all, it's lack of sleep that makes the early stages of parenthood so hard for most of us. But we all take solace in the fact that this bleary-eyed exhaustion phase passes. Eventually, our babies will sleep through the night, the bags under the eyes go away, and the brain fog will start to dissipate. Though new mom Jennifer Stella never experienced that relief even as her daughter Haley neared age 2. Little Haley Rivera has not slept one night since being born 18 months ago, and her insomnia has baffled her parents and doctors.

Trying new things is always easier when you get to watch a trusted friend try first. That's kind of who Big Bird is for America's little kids. Sure, he's an enormous yellow bird, but he still has all the same misgivings about change as the average preschooler (even though everything always turns out okay in the end). So pairing up Big Bird with First Lady Michelle Obama to celebrate the third anniversary of Let’s Move!, Mrs. Obama’s health & fitness for kids initiative, makes perfect sense. (If Big Bird can learn to love garden-fresh veggies, maybe kids can, too.)