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Beco Butterfly Baby Carriers Recalled for Fall Hazard

Better put down the coffee, lady, you're going to need both hands free to catch your baby.

We'll admit that sometimes when certain items are recalled for lead paint, we question anyone chewing on said item in the first place.

Toy robots recalled for lead paint

Out of all the ways warrior robots have to kill, poisoning you slowly with lead paint while you play with it doesn't seem the most efficient.

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Carnival ride accident sends kids plummeting to the ground

This is why those home-town carnival rides makes me so incredibly nervous -- bohemian gypsies, Jack Daniels and parts pieced and rigged together from from junk yard parts and Home Depot wires -- uh, no thanks.

Teens may have been sexually assaulted while passed out

Teenagers, a day off of school, sex, drugs and loitering -- what could possibly go wrong? LOS ANGELES — Two teenage boys have been arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of at least one of three girls who passed out at a San Fernado Valley park, police said.

8 year old arrested for arson

Okay, how in the world can you hold an 8 year old accountable for doing something that she cannot fully comprehend? They should arrest her parents for their lack of supervision.

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Custody Battle

I have succumbed to the fact that nothing I own belongs to just me.

Selling for Scholars

Now is the time of year when all the bold, bright colors seem to spring up ? overnight.

Co sleepers anonymous

So as of Wednesday night I made the decision to cease co-sleeping.

Mom should have known better

I know that hindsight can be 20/20, but this is just tragic event that was fully unavoidable.

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda...But Probably Won't

Before I became a parent, there were so many things that I saw other parents do that I SWORE I wouldn't do when I had a kid of my own.

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Colic

This is not how it was supposed to be.

By Nancy Bleemer

He was here. We had been waiting for 42 weeks. His due date had come and gone and still we had waited.

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