Toddlers

Two tiny dancers adorned with tiaras and pastel rainbow tutus went at it during their ballet recital performance. YouTube user ExGaming28 caught his daughter Freya’s unforgettable interpretation of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” while trying his best to hold the camera still. According to ExGaming28, his daughter is the smaller of the two seen fighting. “My ... read more »

Being a parent can be tough sometimes. We all have our own methods of parenting, right? One father has taken the “tough love” approach too far. He Liesheng and his wife, natives of China, who were visiting New York with their family, to celebrate the Lunar new year, forced his four year-old son to run ... read more »

A long period of scientific tests has produced evidence of a fact that has immense metaphysical significance. After successive tests, and reviews of related scientific literature from the past 30 years, Kristy vanMarle,  an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts and Science, University of Missouri,  arrived at a ... read more »

  From the onset of the second season of 16 and Pregnant, most of the controversial show’s loyal watchers knew that Leah Messer’s story would continue to be played out if a second season of Teen Mom were created. And it was, with Leah being one of the most popular cast members. During her time ... read more »

The entire Kardashian family has had an interesting year, from Kim’s 72-day marriage to Kourtney’s announcement at the beginning of December that she was expecting a little brother or sister for little Mason, but younger sister Khloe has quietly been experiencing drama of her own with NBA hubby Lamar Odom, who plays for the Los ... read more »

  Two formerly conjoined toddlers have recovered from separation surgery and are leaving a Richmond, Virginia hospital in the hopes of soon returning home to the Dominican Republic. On Friday, Maria and Teresa Tapia were released from Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University. The 20-month-old girls had been joined at the chest and underwent complicated surgery that lasted nearly ... read more »

Safeway has terminated a security guard after learning that he interrogated a 4-year old girl for shoplifting. The security guard from the Everett, Washington Safeway, grilled the little girl after allegedly witnessing her eat from a bag of apricots, that she then put back on the self. The girl’s father claims to not have seen the “theft” and was ... read more »

Charges have been filed against Levar Jones, the father of a 7-year-old boy who police say accidentally shot his younger brother who 7 month sold. Jones, 26, of Englewood, Illinois, was charged with felony counts of having an invalid firearm owners identification card and reckless conduct, along with a misdemeanor charge of endangering the health ... read more »

A Portland, Oregon bus driver fell impatient with a mother whose toddler daughter wouldn’t stop crying. Magdalena Rabadan was trying to get home with a very tired 2-year old in tow. Rabadan told KATU News that her daughter is rarely cranky and is used to riding the bus, but on that particular day, she was ... read more »

Police in Salt Lake City, Utah, spent ten days and untold man hours trying to track down the person that had called 911 emergency service over 200 times. After narrowing down the cell phone grid that the calls were originating from, police officers went door-to-door until they finally found out it was a toddler that ... read more »

Police report that a 3-year-old boy was stabbed to death and his mother injured in an apparent domestic incident with the boy’s father on the West Side of Chicago Friday morning. Police said the boy was pronounced dead and his mother was taken to a local hospital, where she remained Friday night. The man who stabbed them ... read more »

A new study shows that toddlers are able to understand complex grammar much earlier than they are able to use it in speech. Children must understand the meaning of words and how to combine them into a meaningful sentence in order to learn a language.  Most 2-year-olds communicate in one or two word phrases, rather than full sentences, but ... read more »

Change.org has started an internet campaign to pressure the producers of the long-running and popular children’s show “Sesame Street” into having Bert and Ernie (two male friends who live together) get married. As of early Wednesday, more than 900 people had signed an online petition about the puppet friends. There is an accompanying Facebook page with more than ... read more »

A 2-year-old girl apparently drowned at in a pool at a home daycare facility in Aurora, Illinois. The child, Abigail Holland, was being cared for by a 36-year-old woman at a private residence. According to reports, the woman was caring for seven children (aged 10 months to nine years) and three of her own children were in the house. The ... read more »

Researchers say that for moms, sharing a bed with their toddler will not harm the child’s intellectual or social development. Of course, bed sharing should not happen until after the baby has turned one and passed the risk of  sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). A study was conducted with 944 poor U.S. mothers who reported whether they ... read more »