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A team of scientists have spent the last several months studying the moments in a parent's life that seem like they last an eternity— children's temper tantrums. And they found there's a lot more to the angry screaming and flailing and hysterical "I HATE YOU"s than meets the eye. More »
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Co-sleeping has long been maligned for turning children into codependent little monsters who will never be able to sleep alone. But a new study of almost 1000 families finds that sleeping next to your kid won't hurt them. Which makes sense, because humans and a lot of other animals have been doing it for thousands of years. I mean, does your cat make her kittens sleep in the other room under a Babar mobile? Didn't think so. More »
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Following the lead of schools for older kids, some preschools are requiring toddlers to wear uniforms. This is a really dumb idea. More »
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In Arlington, VA, a cacophony of upper class problems as a toddler is kicked out of a competitive preschool for being unable to control her bladder. Commence proclamation making, letter writing, and yelling. More »
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"Preschool depression" sound like a term created just to piss off psychiatry skeptics — but clinicians argue that it's real. And descriptions of the condition are some of the saddest things you'll ever read. More »
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A Texas man reportedly murdered his two-year-old stepdaughter on Saturday because she was crying during the U.S.-Ghana World Cup game. Police say Hector Castro choked her with a screw before trying to pass her death off as an accident. [USAToday] More »
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After being unconscious for five days, a 3-year-old Chinese girl has started drinking beer, smoking, and shoplifting two packs a day. It would seem that the chain-smoking Indonesian baby has met his match. At the link, her picture. [NYDN] More »
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A Swedish dad is mad that a photographer at his daughter's preschool airbrushed out her scar (that's not her in the pic). "We just want things to be nice and cute," said a spokesman for the photography company. [UPI.com] More »
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This week's multimedia compilation of pop culture crap features a toddler who wants Botox, a toddler who has giant muscles, a toddler who acts like Anna Nicole Smith, and more. More »
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While New Zeland mom Sarah Quinlan was sleeping, her daughter Pipi, 3, logged onto the auction site TradeMe, where Sarah had been bidding on toy trucks, and bought a real mechanical digger. Sarah found an email saying she owed $20,000 NZD and contacted TradeMe, which reimbursed her. [The Guardian] More »
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On last night's Baby Borrowers, the teens traded in their babies for toilet-training toddlers, which proved to be an even bigger challenge. Morgan, the chillaxed SoCal girl, didn't seem to be too stressed about it, even though she made some pretty big errors in childrearing. When her toddler pooped himself, she first let him roll around on her neighbors' couch with just the diaper on until they complained. Then she dragged the kid by the arm across the floor. When she changed his diaper, she didn't even wipe the crap off him, she just put a fresh diaper on. Poor baby probably got a wicked rash from that. The interesting thing about last night's episode is that most of the teen parents were fighting over who would get to work and who would have to stay home with the children that week. Almost all of them wanted to work outside the home, proving just how hard, valid, and important stay-at-home parenting really is. Clip above. More »
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I vividly remember Judd Apatow's Slate diary from two years ago in which he described his 2-year-old daughter Iris's meltdown at a mall, because it so epitomizes what it's like to be around a toddler. "Iris had such a knipshit (as we used to say) — a total meltdown — that I thought I was going to get arrested by cops who thought that I had kidnapped her. All I did was tell her that we already owned Shrek when she asked if we could buy it. Sometimes that is all it takes. She sat down in the video store and screamed at me, 'Get out of the store!' about 50 times." It goes on from there, but Apatow's vignette proves what any toddler-wrangler already knows: they're all little stinkers. More »
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• The women at Feministing wonder if Andy Samberg was being an "ironic hipster douche" when he wore a "National Organization For Women—Berkeley" tee to a Spike TV awards-show. Our verdict: Samberg may be a hipster but he's probably not being ironic; he grew up in Berkeley. [Feministing]

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• Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon asks, "What is wrong with women?" And asks in a good way, that is. [More »
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