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bad parenting ’
Sad story to report out of the Bronx where a 6-year-old boy died on Monday after he dad gave him what he though was DayQuil. It turns out the boys mother had been storing methadone in the ...
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And again, a Facebook fracas makes it into the real world.
A 32-year-old Long Island woman- possible a mom to one of the minors involved- was arrested in the Mastic-Shirley area of the East End (just west of ...
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Long Island got pretty effing hot this weekend, with temps in the super-high three digits on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
One North Shore mom was arrested during the heat wave for going to KMart in Huntington Station Friday ...
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The teenage bandit who was accused in a string of several ambitious crimes ranging from minor break-ins to plane theft is expected to plead guilty in a Seattle court today.
Colton Harris-Moore achieved folk hero status while he evaded ...
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Oh, my God, this is brilliant.
Via Jez, do you remember the for-parents kids' book that captured the attention of the internet earlier this year, Go The Fuck To Sleep? The picture book went viral and covert downloads ...
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After Child Protective Services seized custody of her daughter, Sheena Upton- real name Kerry Campbell- admitted she concocted the entire story of injecting her 8-year-old daughter with Botox for financial gain.
Now, she may not even have that. ...
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The mom who came under intense international scrutiny for telling British paper The Sun that she gave her daughter at-home Botox treatments and "virgin waxes" and later lost custody of her child has admitted the story was ...
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Not surprisingly, piracy of the forthcoming not-really-children's book Go The Fuck To Sleep has been utterly rampant.
Anyone who has or has been near a toddler probably had difficulty suppressing a giggle-fit when faced with the picture book, which ...
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Remember the pageant mom who insisted her screaming, protesting eight-year-old get an eyebrow wax, enticing the little girl with a bag of candy?
She's actually been one-upped in the pageants-as-torture stakes by a California mom who injects Botox ...
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Ever try to put a baby or child with impossibly high energy levels to sleep?
Instead of Goodnight Moon or Guess How Much I Love You?, Go The Fuck To Sleep by Adam Mansbach might express more accurately ...
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A Georgia dad has been sentenced to probation after local child protective services discovered the man had tattooed his toddler while drunk.
26-year-old Eugene Ashley inked "DB"- for "daddy's boy"- into the child's skin in 2009. Georgia state ...
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Apparently, the attention-whoring women who tart their poor preschoolers up for pageants have scored their own television show, a reality-themed horror on The Learning Channel (TLC) entitled Toddlers and Tiaras.
This may not seem too bad, in and ...
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Got kids? Then you know the clock is rapidly ticking away on the time left to wrangle slightly decent behavior out of them with the omnipresent threat of a shrinking bag of toys from Santa.
At this time ...
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"And Daddy screamed like a girl, and Mommy screamed like a girl!"
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No thanks, I don't need a basket.
[offbeats via reddit]
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Police have arrested a couple in Salinas, California after the pair allegedly tried to sell their six-month-old baby outside a Walmart for $25.
The couple, 20-year-old Samantha Tomasini and 38-year-old Patrick Fousek, are said to have approached two ...
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Point/counterpoint, I have to say Bethany does have one...
[Lamebook]
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Toddlers are notoriously unruly, but here's a disciplinary tactic you probably haven't considered.
27-year-old soldier Joshua Tabor, stationed at Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Washington, told police he used the controversial torture technique on his four-year-old daughter after flying into ...
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38-year-old Lynn Middlebrooks Geter was arrested in Meriwether County, Georgia after police say she punished her 12-year-old son in an unconventional and undeniably cruel way.
Geter, whose son is not being named, demanded the child kill his beloved ...
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A 40-year-old Long Island social worker is accused of using Craigslist's adult section to mete out vengeance in a dispute between 4th graders.
Hauppauge mother Margery Tannenbaum is facing charges of aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child after ...
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Julia E. Laack, 36, of Sheboygan Wisconsin, was followed home by police officers following an alleged shoplifting incident.
Laack is accused of stealing beef jerky and a lighter from a convenience store Thursday. Police say that when they ...
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Colton Harris-Moore- also called "Colt"- is known as the "Barefoot Burglar" because he tends to go pillaging shoeless.
Colt's been breaking into vacation homes and watercraft for years, and recently moved up to plane theft. Harris-Moore is 18, ...
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