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    The Modern American Brag: “My Kids Were About to be Trafficked, Too!”

    March 27, 2017

    Okay, 89,000 shares of this piece  from ForEveryMom: Mom’s Warning to Other Parents After Being Followed While Shopping: “We Were…

    “It’s Too Dangerous For Kids to Play Outside!” — How to Fight Back

    March 27, 2017

    It is a quirk of our era that we don’t seem able to do anything — fill in a crossword…

    All Hail Pearls Before Swine and Stephan Pastis!

    March 25, 2017

    Stephan Pastis, forgive me for reprinting this here, but we are so on your side! And you are on ours!…

    Is a Baby “Abandoned” If Left Temporarily Behind By Accident?

    March 23, 2017

    Look, if it turns out this Texas tot was deliberately abandoned, which strikes me as the least likely scenario, then…

    UPDATE: VOTE POSTPONED! Should It Be Punishable by a Year in Jail to Let Your First-Grader Wait in the Car for 6 Minutes?

    March 22, 2017

    Hi all — There has been some sort of shift in the Rhode Island legislature, pushing this bill off today’s…

    Miscellaneous

    “Children, Get Your Poison Barley and Kill the Squirrels!”

    March 22, 2017

    Precisely 99 years ago, California was battling a bushy-tailed terror: squirrels. They were destroying too many crops. To fight the…

    GOOD News

    Slightly Off Topic: School Assigns Random Prom Dates

    March 21, 2017

    Hi all! This story was sent in with a note I sort of agree with: A school in Illinois is…

    Miscellaneous

    “How About You Raise Your Kids YOUR Way, And I Raise Mine?” — A Starbucks Confrontation

    March 20, 2017

    Hi Folks! This post appears on Nicole Roder’s blog. Author Nicole lives in Maryland with her four kids and a…

    “My Toddler Was Almost Sex-Trafficked from the Grocery with Me Standing There.” Oh Really?

    March 16, 2017

    This story  comes from a reader named Jennifer who wrote: So I am in 3 separate mommy groups and each…

    Not Every Tragedy Contains a Moral

    March 16, 2017

    A reminder from a reader that the way we package our “news” ends up affecting the way we see the…

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