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• Kid's Hair Chewing Almost Kills Her

  That's it. I'm scheduling a haircut for my daughter.  After years of pulling it out of her mouth and saying "don't chew on your hair," I read this: a five-year-old in England swallowed so much of her own hair that it formed a rope that was constricting her organs. Read More... Posted May 26 2009, 12:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Long Hair, girls, daughters, sick kids, illness, bizarre, hair, Jeanne Sager, rare disease

• Creepiest Baby Shower Cake Ever

  When you think baby shower cakes you generally think of a pastel blue or pink towers of frothy confection. When hosts of the party decide to get all ‘fancy’ and creative with the cake, it’s usually along the lines of recreating  a tower of blocks, a rubber ducky or a baby’s bassinet not a recreation of an actual birth. Click here to check it out! Read More... Posted May 23 2009, 02:30 PM by SunnyChanel with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: bizarre, odd, Creepy cake, party cake, baby shower cake, weirdest cake

• Dad Charges Daughter With Grand Theft Auto

  A girl in Fort Lauderdale, Florida took her dad's car while he was visiting her much younger sibling (19 months old) at the hospital. She's 12. She drove around without the headlights on and hit a police car. Her dad isn't messing around. He asked police to charge his daughter with grand theft auto. Not the video game -- the crime. Read More... Posted May 22 2009, 05:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: children, parents, fathers, crime, florida, daughters, wtf, Fox News, bizarre, weird, weird news, odd, Brett Singer, AP, associated press, grand theft auto, fort lauderdale, dad charges daughter with grand theft auto

• Adopted Brother Was Living Across The Street

  This is nice. And bizarre. But still nice.   Read More... Posted May 22 2009, 03:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, news, adoption, video, CNN, bizarre, Brett Singer, adopted, Joellen Cottrell, adopted son found after 30 years, Candace Eloph, long lost adopted brother found across the street, Jamie Wheat

• Single Mom Sells Ad Space On Her Body on eBay

  BillieJean Irizarry tried to sell advertising on her body via eBay. In her mind, this was the best way to make money to support her family. I think this is GREAT. Ah, see what I did there? I don't think it's great. Read More... Posted May 22 2009, 12:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: news, ebay, advertising, single parenting, wtf, bizarre, weird, MomLogic, Brett Singer, single mom, single mother, single parent, single mom tries selling ad space on her body on ebay, BillieJean Irizarry

• Girl has Five Spleens, Two Left Lungs and Huge Grin

  I can only handle so many tragic medical stories involving kids in one week. After the eight-year-old with ovarian cancer and the ten-year-old with breast cancer, I'd say Strollerderby has given you your quota this week. But this is a story you might want to read anyway. Read More... Posted May 22 2009, 11:27 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: sick kids, pictures, bizarre, happy kids, Jeanne Sager, smiles, rare disease

• Class Rings for Your Pre-Schooler?

  Who knew? All this time I was saving up my money to pay my daughter's pre-school tuition, and I should have been setting some aside for a class ring. Because every toddler needs a shiny piece of metal they will either lose or grow out of within the next six months, right? I said right? Read More... Posted May 20 2009, 04:37 PM by JeanneSager with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: preschool, kindergarten, bizarre, growing up, Jeanne Sager, nursery school, pre-school, graduation, grown up, class rings

• Cops Taser Toy Panther

  If you've ever been terrified by one of your kids' all-too-lifelike toys in the middle of the night, don't despair. At least you didn't call out a team of cops to Taser your daughter's stuffed animal. Read More... Posted May 20 2009, 04:35 PM by JeanneSager with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: toys, stuffed animals, pranks, animals, bizarre, Jeanne Sager, exotic animals, panther

• Dad Calls Cops for Son's Messy Room

  As parents we are always looking for a little vindication, right? Especially when our kids have done something that really sets us on edge and yet, we have acted calmly, rationally . . . or at least not pitched a toddler-style fit of our own? I've got some good news for parents who have thrown up their hands at their kids' messy rooms.  At least your kid isn't twenty-eight, living at home and in need of some tips on how to tame the trash. Oh yeah, and at least you haven't called the cops to make your kid get his tuchas in gear.   Read More... Posted May 19 2009, 10:07 AM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: behavior, chores, bizarre, behavior problems, Jeanne Sager, messy room

• Twins Have One Mom, Two Different Dads

  Anyone who has operated on the premise that you can't get any MORE pregnant listen up.  A Texas mom has given birth to two babies at the same time, with two different dads. Technically, the little boys are twins, Read More... Posted May 19 2009, 09:33 AM by JeanneSager with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, twins, birth control, multiples, paternity, fatherhood, bizarre, Jeanne Sager

• CO Uses Stun Gun on Kids

  Fueling the fire for critics of Take Your Son and Daughter to Work Day, one bone-headed corrections officer is using the "but their parents said I could" defense for using a stun gun on a group of kids on the job for the day with Mom and Dad. Sgt. Walter Schmidt claims he wanted to show the kids what mom and dad's jobs are really like at the Franklin Correctional Institute. Uh huh, because most corrections officers we know face daily doses of fifty thousand volts being shot through their bodies. Read More... Posted May 04 2009, 08:32 AM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: child safety, working parents, bizarre, Jeanne Sager, on the job, shocking kids, corrections, Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day

• What Would Jesus Build Out of LEGO?

  If your kids get this into LEGO, you might want to sign them up for the nearest seminary. Proving the theory that LEGOs are good for the soul, a Protestant Church in Sweden has built a life-size Jesus statue . . . completely out of the itty bitty bricks. Read More... Posted May 02 2009, 03:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: toys, religion, Legos, bizarre, Jeanne Sager, lego

• Kid Flies Across Country And No One Notices

  If it sounds like a Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan flick that's popular on date night, you're not far off. A boy used his father's credit card, hopped a plane and was across the country before anyone had missed him. Only this kid wasn't looking for a lady love for dad. And he went in the opposite direction (East Coast to West rather than Seattle to New York). Oh yeah, and this wasn't a movie. Read More... Posted May 01 2009, 09:25 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: travel, autism, child safety, safety, airport security, bizarre, Jeanne Sager, Airplanes

• Mom Boots Bickering Kids from Car (You Know You've Wanted To)

  I won't pretend to scratch my head in ignorance, wondering how on earth a mother could kick her children to the curb after they fail to heed the 87th warning to "STOP FIGHTING RIGHT THIS INSTANT OR I PROMISE YOU I'LL PULL RIGHT OVER AND LEAVE YOU TWO ON THE STREET DON'T TEMPT ME I'LL REALLY DO IT!" I completely understand the urge. I've felt the urge, after driving 3.8 miles with the feet of a 3-year-old planted firmly in my back, or listening to yet another argument between my son and his cousin about whether or not the Beast dies at the end of Beauty and the Beast, or hearing my 8-year-old niece wax poetic about how wonderful girls are and how yucky boys are, all within earshot of my two adorable (and yes, sometimes yucky) boys, or simmering with a migraine while five kids in the car decide to see who can scream the loudest.  But unlike this woman, I never acted on that urge. Read More... Posted Apr 22 2009, 11:30 AM by KeriF with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: bizarre, Keri Fisher, abandoned child

• Mom, That Cuts! No, Really

  Here's a way to guarantee your kids will only say I love you from the other side of bulletproof glass: pull a butcher knife on them.  It's what a Florida mom booked on child abuse charges is said to have done. Read More... Posted Apr 21 2009, 09:26 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: mother, child abuse, love, Mother's Day, bizarre, Bad Parent, Jeanne Sager, i love you, affection

• Amy Winehouse Writing a Children's Book

  The best word to describe my daughter's library? Eclectic. We have the bunnies saying goodnight to their room on through to stories about funky jazz cats.  But here's where I may have to draw the line: Amy Winehouse says she'll be writing a children's book about her life.  Done sputtering? Read More... Posted Apr 18 2009, 02:30 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: music, children's books, books, reading, bizarre, amy winehouse, Jeanne Sager, reading to kids, role model

• Playdate: How to Exploit Your Own Kids

  OK, we're not actually suggesting you exploit your kids. But this guy is! Meet Mel Kane and his bad eighties era how-to on getting your kids into commercials. Fat kids (yes, he really said that), thin kids, short kids, tall kids! He sounds like a bad Dr. Seuss impression, only he's dead serious. Read More... Posted Apr 08 2009, 12:25 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: television, tv, commercials, money, funny, videos, bizarre, Jeanne Sager, family finance, eighties, kids in commercials, kids in acting

• Playmobil Sues Priest For Playing With Toys

  The idea of buying kids toys is to play with them, right? Even if you're an adult who happens to like playing with kids toys in order to amuse little kids? Not according to Playmobil.  The toymakers known for their bizarre sense of what kids like to play with (the airport security checkpoint still blows my mind) are now suing a German priest who was using Playmobil's little people to recreate scenes from the Bible for little kids. Read More... Posted Apr 06 2009, 04:32 PM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: toys, lawsuit, christianity, playtime, bizarre, priest, Jeanne Sager, christian, Playmobil

• Judge to Mom: Spank Your Kid or Pay Up

  A judge who ordered parents to paddle their children with a wooden board in an open courtroom or face hefty fines has been warned his mode of punishment is not acceptable by a Texas judicial conduct panel.  Well Gawd bless those Texans for some common sense. Read More... Posted Apr 04 2009, 01:22 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: discipline, behavior, law, spanking, child abuse, violence, hitting, bizarre, Jeanne Sager, judge

• Family Evicted for Having Twins

  Ever heard of someone too big to fit inside a house? What if that person were two people - two teeny, weeny newborn people? A Michigan couple learned their newborn twins put them over the limit for space allotted to people in their housing community this week when they received an eviction notice - just after the babies were born. Read More... Posted Apr 03 2009, 05:57 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, baby, twins, multiples, bizarre, housing, economy, Jeanne Sager, economic downturn, landlord

• Family Awarded Millions For Circumcision Mistake

  I know there are lots of people out there who regularly scream about how trial lawyers are destroying the world through lawsuits. And doctors are having trouble keeping up with their malpractice insurance payments. But here's a case where I think you'll agree the award isn't enough. Four years ago, a boy had part of his penis cut off during a circumcision. The part could have been reattached if his pediatrician had acted quickly enough to do so, according to the plaintiff. A Georgia jury agreed and awarded $1.8 million to the boy and $500,000 to his mother. Their names are being kept private, but the doctors' names aren't. They are "Haiba Sonyika, the obstetrician who performed the circumcision, and Cheryl J. Kendall, the pediatrician who treated the child later." The hospital was not found to be at fault. Read More... Posted Apr 02 2009, 10:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: news, law, crime, circumcision, hospital, georgia, wtf, lawyers, bizarre, doctors, penis, court, legal, Brett Singer, doctor, circumcised

• Woman Will Go Free If Son Comes Back To Life

  In what has to be a first, a Maryland court has accepted a plea bargain where she will testify against her fellow cult members and plead guilty -- unless her son is resurrected. 22-year-old Ria Ramkissoon is accused of refusing to feed her son Javon because "he didn't say 'amen' before breakfast." Ramkissoon and other parents were allegedly ordered to do this by a woman named Queen Antoinette, the leader of a group called One Mind Ministries. Queen Antoinette is charged with murder and child abuse resulting in death; in exchange for her testimony, Ramkissoon will plead guilty only to the latter charge. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2009, 09:30 AM by Brett Singer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: news, crime, wtf, Washington Post, bizarre, Maryland, court, Brett Singer, Ria Ramkissoon, Queen Antoinette, One Mind Ministries

• Texas School Accused Of Student Cage Fighting

  Next time you have complaints about your children's school, remember this story. Because things could be worse. According to a report obtained by the Dallas Morning News, school officials at South Oak Cliff High in Texas (ironically known as "SOC", pronounced "sock", as in "sock it to me") had students settle their differences by fighting. In a cage. This did not happen last Tuesday. It happened back in 2003 and continued until 2005. And no one did anything about it. Read More... Posted Mar 30 2009, 02:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: news, school, texas, fighting, high school, wtf, principal, students, scandal, bizarre, cage fighting, Brett Singer, AP, alleged, allegedly, yahoo news, school officials, cage match, Dallas Morning News, South Oak Cliff High, Michael Hinojosa, soc, cage matches, sock, Donald Moten

• Forget the Hospital Gown: Give Birth in Couture

  The last thing I was thinking about as I pushed my daughter into this world was what I was wearing. And here I thought I was totally normal. For moms who want to look fab even while contracting, there's hope - a new company has introduced a slinky, sleeveless dress just for giving birth. Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 11:32 AM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: maternity, labor and delivery, delivery, bizarre, maternity ward, Jeanne Sager, birthing, maternity wear, birthing dress

• UPDATE - Josef Fritzl Sentenced To Life In Psychiatric Institution

  Josef Fritzl has been sentenced to life -- in a psychiatric institution. That means he could be free in 15 years if a doctor says he's been cured of whatever they decide is wrong with him. Details after the jump. Read More... Posted Mar 19 2009, 09:35 PM by Brett Singer with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: news, Times, fathers, mothers, law, crime, jail, times online, incest, CNN, daughters, wtf, BBC, lawyers, bizarre, prison, update, legal, Brett Singer, austria, josef fritzl, cellar, fritzl, elisabeth fritzl