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Tantrum Club Provides Outlet for Frustration | YummyMummyClub.ca

If you've ever fantasized about throwing yourself, flailing and raging, on the floor alongside your toddler, now you can.

The first rule of Tantrum Club is that you DO talk about Tantrum Club because, well, it's for women. And we like to talk things through, but sometimes talking isn't enough.

With the today's pressures, women need a safe place to thrash around and "fully express all their pent-up negative emotions in healthy and enlivening ways."

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New breast pump | YummyMummyClub.ca

It's 2016, and we have self-driving cars and sleek phones that double as cameras. So why has no one has designed a better breast pump in the last 20 years?

That's the question one company has asked - and answered. With its new pump, Babyation vows to "revolutionize the way mothers pump milk." And goodness knows, a revolution is overdue.

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Family embarks on biking adventure | YummyMummyClub.ca

What's your family's idea of a fun vacation? An all-inclusive resort with a kids' club... Long, lazy days by the pool, and maybe - for the really adventurous - day excursions in a rental car.

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Our babies grow up so fast, don't they? One way to chart a child's evolution - if you don't fancy pen marks tracked all the way up your walls - is through clothes. Your clothes.

Mom Brandy Yearous found a sweet way to chronicle her kids' growth spurts. Once a year, she photographs her son wearing the same pair of her husband's jeans; while her daughter slips into her own wedding gown.

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Mar
15
2016

Mom Bills "Unappreciative" Son for Almost $40K

"what an entitled little shit I have been"

Mom Gives Son Invoice for Services | YummyMummyClub.ca

Unaffordable housing means more and more grown children are living with their parents. But not all of them appreciate the roof overhead.

A Toronto single mom drew up an invoice to show her ungrateful 23-year-old son the value of money, including a $1K charge for being "being an *sshole and not appreciative of your mother’s support financially or otherwise.”

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Mar
15
2016

Chemical Detected in Honest Company Detergent

What Can Consumers Consider Full Disclosure?

Honest Company Criticism Over Chemicals | YummyMummyClub.ca

Jessica Alba's Honest Company is under scrutiny after testing apparently revealed the brand's popular detergent contains the very chemicals it claims to avoid.

Touted as creating safe, more environmentally friendly products, the Honest Company's laundry detergent is said to contain "known irritant" sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS).

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Beatrice Milk Recall | YummyMummyClub.ca

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has recalled Beatrice 1 per cent chocolate milk in 200, 473-millilitre and litre containers containers, after inspectors detected chemical sanitizers in the following product codes:

Size | Code(s) on product | UPC

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Breast Cancer | YummyMummyClub.ca

Our breasts deserve special attention. By that, I don't mean we should all go and put our boobs on social media. But Kylie Armstrong from Melbourne, Australia did just that - and for good reason.

We all know the importance of early detection.  But what if the signs of cancer go beyond scheduling regular mammograms and feeling for lumps and bumps?

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Mar
10
2016

RECALL: Various Delissio Pizzas 

May Contain Small Glass Fragments

Delissio Pizza Recall | YummyMummyClub.ca

Nestlé Canada has voluntarily recalled two types of its pizzas with the following codes:

Product | SCC Case Code | UPC | Batch Code | Best Before

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Mar
10
2016
Drug sniffing dogs hired by parents | YummyMummyClub.ca

Suspect your kid may be doing drugs? For $99, Last Chance K9 Service will bring a drug-sniffing dog in to your home to search for narcs in your teen's room. 

The new Kentucky-based service is proving popular with parents who want to outsource the snooping part to a third party, lest they erode the trust of their kids.

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Mar
09
2016
New Super Lice Strain Making Us Itchy | YummyMummyClub.ca

Lice treatment has long left parents scratching their heads.

Just when you think we've finally got the upper hand in the fight against the little hair critters, a new strain of "super lice" has been reported in the U.S. Detected in at least 25 states, the new bugs are proving resistant to the tried-and-tested lice products.

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Mar
08
2016
Boys Gives Himself Haircut | YummyMummyClub.ca

Ah, no childhood is complete without a good home haircut story, it seems. 

Many of us were born in a decade where the "bowl" or the "mushroom" was de rigeur. But what of those kids who get hold of the scissors and take drastic measures into their own hands?

Well, a viral YouTube video by Kyoot Kids both celebrates and laments the institution that is Kid Cuts Own Hair and Lives to Tell. 

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Mar
07
2016

New, Healthier Ketchup Flying off Canadian Shelves

would you like fries with your ketchup?

French's Ketchup in Canada | YummyMummyClub.ca

What's your go-to ketchup: Heinz or another brand? Bet you didn't know that what kind of ketchup you choose to dip your fries into directly impacts your fellow countrymen.

French's - better known for its mustard - has been flying off Canadian shelves thanks to this viral Facebook post by Brian Fernandez:

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Mar
03
2016
Company offers leave for menstrual pain | YummyMummyClub.ca

An arts company in the UK has a pioneering policy when it comes to periods. Coexist is considering implementing a menstruation policy that could see women working from home or even taking leave during their time of the month.

The thinking behind the "period policy" is that by allowing women to work flexible hours, they can optimize work during more productive parts of their cycle.

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Mar
03
2016

Syrian Refugees to Experience Summer Camp

Bring on the 'Smores and campfires! 

Syrian Refugee Children Have Opportunity for Summer Camp | YummyMummyClub.ca

Syrian refugees have almost made it through their first Canadian winter, enjoying winter fun like tobogganing and skating. Now girls will get to experience the best of what summer has to offer, thanks to Glen Bernard Camp.

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Mar
03
2016

French Parents May Face Lawsuits for Posting Kids Images on Facebook

France urges parents to protect children on social media

No More Kids Pictures on French Facebook | YummyMummyClub.ca

Think twice before uploading that sweet photo of your munchkin on Facebook or Twitter. Especially if you live in France. The country's strict privacy laws could see parents fined $65,000 and jailed if convicted of publishing personal details about their children without consent.

And parents with grown children can't afford to rest easy. Children who sue retrospectively may receive compensation for breach of privacy.

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Dollarama Puzzle Recall | YummyMummyClub.ca

Health Canada and Dollarama have recalled the above three-piece wooden animal puzzles for children 24 months and up with the item #08-3032698 and UPC 6 67888 17495 9. 

The wooden knobs may detach from the puzzle pieces, posing a choking hazard.

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Telling Twins Apart | YummyMummyClub.ca

Identical twin jokes abound. Just how do you tell them apart when they are babies? One dad's struggle to differentiate his infants is no laughing matter, given one boy needs frequent medical attention.

As user Thrwydad explained on Reddit, 12-month-old identical twins Aaron and Adam were born prematurely, and no one - not even their parents - can tell them apart.

The couple had taken to marking Adam's arm with permanent marker, but that method wasn't full proof. The marker washed off, and only irritated the infant's skin.

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Mar
02
2016

Is Katy Perry Actually JonBenét Ramsey?

a Cracked conspiracy theory gone viral

Katy Perry and Jon Benet Ramsey Conspiracy | YummyMummyClub.ca

America loves itself a good conspiracy theory, from NASA to all the way to JFK. But none are as deliciously baked as this one, originating from December 2014, that is currently blowing up the internet.

Ready for it? Remember JonBenét Ramsey, the six year-old child pageant star who was kidnapped and murdered? Well, what if instead of dying, she magically morphed into... Katy Perry?

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