Dressing your messy, growing children in couture just got easier, with the short term clothing rental company Borrow Mini Couture. Read… 12/10/13 6:20pm Today 6:20pm

The New York Times' Modern Love column is like a box of chocolates, if half of the chocolates were replaced by cringeworthy middle school journals crumpled up and dipped in hardened, bitter regret. I'm happy to report, however, that this week's Modern Love was actually pretty sweet. Read… 12/02/13 4:45pm 12/02/13 4:45pm

A prekindergarten teacher is facing disciplinary action from the Buffalo School District after she sent parents a (handwritten!) letter about how their kids were so gross and stinky that she could hardly bring herself to go near them. Read… 11/24/13 2:00pm 11/24/13 2:00pm

Every year after Halloween for the past few years, Jimmy Kimmel has asked parents to submit videos of their children reacting to being told that all their hard-earned Halloween candy has already been consumed. The results are...a lot crying children. Read… 11/05/13 2:00pm 11/05/13 2:00pm

Oh my god please stop being so cute. (Kidding. NEVER STOP.) Read… 11/05/13 10:20am 11/05/13 10:20am

A Utah woman has given birth to a 14 pound, 22-inch-long baby boy. Calm your wincing ladyparts, though — he was delivered via Caesarean Section. Still. Jesus Olympian Stretch Mark Christ. Read… 10/31/13 11:50am 10/31/13 11:50am

Bike helmets are, for bike-wielding kids with only a rudimentary understanding of their own motor skills, a necessary form of public humiliation Even really sleek, Tron-looking bike helmets are humiliating (and uncomfortable) to strap on, and, for a kid with a bike, the first true act of childhood rebellion is… Read… 10/26/13 3:00pm 10/26/13 3:00pm

About a week ago I began deleting all photos and videos of my children from the Internet. This is proving to be no easy task. Like many parents, I’ve excitedly shared virtually every step, misstep and milestone that myself and my children have muddled our way through. Read on Gizmodo 10/15/13 5:30pm 10/15/13 5:30pm

No one wants to raise an asshole and according to a new study the key to that could be making your kid go to bed at the same time every night. Read… 10/14/13 11:10am 10/14/13 11:10am

An elementary school in Port Washington, New York just banned all balls that are not made of Nerf foam from its playground. Related: America's Alliance of Kid Bullies just ranked Port Washington, New York as its number 1 favorite bullying destination for summer 2014. Read… 10/08/13 7:00pm 10/08/13 7:00pm

So, on the one hand, "Bat Dad" (no relation to this more famous Bat Dad) is funny — the cadence of his Batman voice is spot-on and he regularly saves his family from their greatest foe, mundanity. On the other hand, Jesus Christ would it suck to live in a house with this guy. I think the only family member still into… Read… 9/21/13 1:02pm 9/21/13 1:02pm

Parents whose children are in New York public schools are pissed that Rosh Hashana has fallen so unusually early this year, which means they have to deal with their kids for an entire extra week of summer break. Read… 9/04/13 12:30pm 9/04/13 12:30pm

Lori Duron is the author of Raising My Rainbow, a popular parenting blog (now a memoir) where she documents what it's like raising C.J., her non-gender conforming son who prefers dresses, dolls and makeup to toys that are typically seen as boyish. Thanks to her popular website, Duron has become the face of non-gender… Read… 9/03/13 3:00pm 9/03/13 3:00pm

Except for the kid who is asked "What did you learn today?" who obstinately chews his food while looking into the middle distance, and finally says, "Nothing." I like how he rolls. Read… 8/24/13 12:30pm 8/24/13 12:30pm

I’ve blogged twice about the sexist preview for “Planes,” and after seeing the movie today, I’m afraid I’ve got to blog about this awful scene once more. The sexist scene actually opens the movie. It sets the tone for the whole film, which is the opposite of what I thought the scene was going to do. When I saw the… Read… 8/15/13 3:00pm 8/15/13 3:00pm

"We’d go to bookstores and libraries all the time and I was like, 'Why aren’t there any pictures of kids that look like my kids?'" So fretted actress Garcelle Beauvais, mother to biracial sons. She was so frustrated by the situation, she went ahead and wrote a children's book herself. Read… 8/12/13 1:50pm 8/12/13 1:50pm

"A clean plate is a happy plate" is a common refrain for new parents — but sometimes it's not so happy for the kid. More like "miserable" or "potentially pukey" or "burgeoning weird relationship with food." As if you moms didn't have enough to worry about. I have a fucking CAT, and every time I go out of the house I am… Read… 8/03/13 3:00pm 8/03/13 3:00pm

I'm not a mother, but as far as I can tell, writing about motherhood is sort of like writing about feminism: There's no real right answer, it's been complicated by years of movements and counter-movements, and you're bound to elicit disapproval regardless of what your stance is. Like, obviously. I'm not telling you… Read… 7/27/13 2:30pm 7/27/13 2:30pm

Sorry to sound all fusty and Tom Wolfe-ish, but it's nice to know that even in 2013, when teenage girls are getting pregnant in order to be on MTV and Princesses of Long Island is a show, and Kardashians happen, some people get famous because they're just irrepressible stars. Bright, shining motherfuckin' stars. Read… 7/27/13 1:00pm 7/27/13 1:00pm

A lot of the shit kids say is dumb, like "We should eat marshmallows with every meal," and "Why doesn't everyone roll around on Heelys?" JK that shit is not dumb at all. Kids actually know what they're talking about, because no one has corrupted their innocent little child brains with the deep cynicism that watching hours … Read… 7/23/13 4:00pm 7/23/13 4:00pm

So, on the one hand, children are goblins bent on murdering their younger siblings and slowly driving their parents insane. We know this thing, this is a thing we know. Fine, BUT children are also resilient little cretins whose hearts are full of joy and laughter even if their older sisters spread diaper cream all… Read… 7/21/13 5:30pm 7/21/13 5:30pm

Sam Cornwell, a photographer from England, took a second of video a day and stitched into a video of his son Indigo's first year on planet earth. It's neato — and he's got that song in the background that's used in lots of movies lately to make you cry. When Indigo takes his first steps, I totally said "yes!" out loud.… Read… 7/16/13 4:00pm 7/16/13 4:00pm

CBC Music arranged for 5-year-old piano prodigy Ryan Wang to play a private concert for a 101-year-old grandma named Dorothy Landry who isn't into "rock n' roll" or "all that modern stuff." And they hug and cry and it's touching as fuq. Because we were not already dehydrated enough by this damn weather without leaking… Read… 6/29/13 2:00pm 6/29/13 2:00pm

When we talk about "hazing" in the media, it's usually in pretty abstract generalities—the victims were humiliated, beaten, forced to drink to excess, and so on—but there's nothing quite like a photograph to drive home just what something means. These photos from an investigation into hazing at Inglemoor High School… Read… 6/21/13 10:50am 6/21/13 10:50am

You would think that most parents are smart enough to know that their prescription medications' "keep out of reach of children" warning isn't to be taken lightly, but maybe not. Doctors are reporting an increase in incidences of children being brought to the hospital after getting into their moms' and dads' pill… Read… 6/03/13 1:00pm 6/03/13 1:00pm