Feb
05
2014

How To Turn A Nursery Into A Planetarium

the best/worst idea I ever had

nursery planetarium

Did you stress when it came to decorating your baby's nursery? Well, one dad more than raised the bar with this amazing DIY project that took, in his estimation, 40 hours!

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Feb
04
2014

The Bra That Can Detect True Love

I Only Unhook for Prince Charming

bra that detects true love

Forget squeezing into a glass slipper. There's a new bra on the market that—get this—only unhooks for Prince Charming. According to an article in the Guardian, the so-called "smart bra" is the latest in gadget undergarments.

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Feb
04
2014

Is This Proof That No Baby Is "Too Young To Love"?

Family Heals Through Photographs With Dying Infant

family heals after stillbirth

Losing a child is devastating—at any age. One family has released images of their newborn Walter Joshua Fretz, who died just minutes after he was born, having only been carried to 19 weeks. The family shared these images (via Viral Nova) not only to help them and others deal with a similar loss, but to illustrate just how precious and miraculous life is. Proof that no baby is "too young to love."

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Jan
31
2014
utah school

A Utah school is under scrutiny after cafeteria staff binned the lunches of forty elementary children. According to an article in Think Progress, the students had fallen behind on lunch payments at Uintah Elementary, in Salt Lake City. 

Many parents said they weren't even aware they were in arrears, though school officials claimed they made phone calls days before to inform families of the debts owing. 

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recall pacifier

Health Canada, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (US CPSC), and Fred & Friends have jointly recalled the above pacifiers with the following models/UPC:

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scarlett johanssan banned from superbowl

Those wee Super Bowl ads are among the most lucrative on TV (with a measly 30-second slot costing $4 million!). Unfortunately, those seconds also happen to be among the most sexist. But you have the power to change that.

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kid in snow

How cold is too cold to send your children outside to play? A Toronto pediatrician claims that the public school board's policy to hold recess indoors when the temperature drops to a wind-chill factor of below –28C is a "terrible idea."

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Jan
29
2014

The Birthday Cake To End All Birthday Cakes

Talk about having your cake and eating it

cake made to look like boy

You know those moms who go all bananas when it comes to baking birthday cakes? Yeah, well, I don't pretend to be that mom for a second. But after laying eyes on the masterpiece that a baker made for a boy's fourth birthday, we all might as well agree to throw away our cake pans now.

It wasn't Thomas the Tank Engine or Dora that made its way onto little Alfie's cake, but a life-sized chocolate sponge of . . . Alfie with his toy monkey.

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Jan
28
2014
girl playing with lego

Do the toys girls play with shape their job prospects later in life? British education minister, Elizabeth Truss, thinks so. If we steer girls away from stereotypical "boy toys," are we inadvertently steering them away from possible careers in engineering and science?

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stir fry veggie recall

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Sobeys Inc. have recalled the Compliments brand of stir-fry vegetables due to potential Listeria contamination in 340g (12oz) bags with a best before date of January 21, 2014 (UPC code 0 68820 10648 7).

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