TMN: Baby Drop-Off For Readers?

Jessica Francis Kane has an idea to help readers-turned-parents get back their reading time: IKEA-style, supervised kidcheck playrooms at bookstores or libraries. Little does JFK know that for every parent scheming for more reading opportunities, there are a hundred freelance...
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Pre-School TV's For Marketing, Or D'Oh!, I'm Nodding Along To An Amy Sohn Column

You ever have one of those parenting moments that stops you dead in your tracks, and you break out in a cold sweat? Like when you find yourself agreeing with New York Magazine sex-makes-babies columnist Amy Sohn about something? Sohn...
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So You Don't Have To Read About Kids Flying Private To Camp In The Post

In a dead-on targeting of that Impressionable Losers With More Money Than Brains demographic so coveted by its advertisers, the NY Post helpfully reports about a growing "trend": kids flying to summer camp on private jets. The story idea's likely...
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Silicon Valley Nerdsery Includes Cray Supercomputer

It's nice when a plan comes together. Paul & Pam Costa of Silicon Valley somewhere were having a boy and thought they'd name him Edison, so they cooked up an Edison theme for his nursery. Though some even bigger...
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Kid In Tow, Crackhead Mom Plows Volvo Wagon Through DC Streetfair

YOW. A cracked up mom, with a 7-yo kid in the back, plowed a Volvo 740 station wagon through a giant Washington DC street fair Saturday night, injuring up to 40 people, including at least seven kids. The rampage...
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It's My Sperm In A Box! Male At-Home Fertility Test Goes On Sale In US

The Fertell male fertility test popped up around here last year when it was introduced in the UK. While its innovative adaptation of clinically proven sperm motility testing to a self-administered, at-home setting is laudable, especially because men are...
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