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• Father Forced to Chose Which Child to Save

  There are some “what if's” that, as a parent, you cringe to even say aloud, let alone ponder. One of the most prevalent is the old “what if both your children were about to die and you could only save one?” The rest of us have the luxury of pushing that horrid thought out of mind. This father had to make the choice for real. Ian Clayton was on a canoing trip with his eight-year-old twins when their boat capsized in fast current. Clayton's son has quickly pulled downstream, while is daughter was somewhere under the water. Clayton was faced with two options... Read More... Posted Jun 24 2008, 10:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: child, sacrifice, parent, ian clayton, horrible, save, sophie's choice, canoe

• Wha? School Starts Sex Abuse Investigation Based on Psychic's Tip

  File this one under, "If it happened to me, my rage would know no bounds." Colleen Leduc has an eleven-year-old daughter, Victoria, who is autistic. Last month, shortly after she picked up her daughter from school, she got a call from the teacher saying she should come to the school immediately for an urgent matter. When she arrived for the meeting with the teacher, principal, and vice-principal, the teacher told her an educational aide in the classroom had been to see a psychic over the weekend, and that the psychic said a little girl with the initial "V" was being sexually abused by a man in his twenties. Ridiculous, no? Well, by the time the meeting took place, the school HAD ACTUALLY REPORTED IT to Children's Aid Services, opening an investigation... Read More... Posted Jun 21 2008, 12:02 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: mother, school, child, autism, sexual abuse, superstition, classroom, protection, report, investigation, autistic, psychic, idiots, aid

• Needle Camps

  When one polarizing parenting debate dies down, there is always another to take its place. It's like Whack-a-Mole, only less fun. This week's mole is vaccines.           Read More... Posted Jun 18 2008, 02:30 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: child, chicken pox, vaccines, measles, moles, brain, austism

• Counseling Over Transgendered Third Grader

  When a third-grade boy in Pennsylvania decided to transition to being female, his parents asked the school for assistance with peer acceptance. The school consulted with experts on transgender children and asked a school counselor to hold sessions with 100 third graders to explain why their classmate would be taking a different name and wearing female clothing. The idea was to help the kids with acceptance and to prevent them from saying mean things.  So what's the kerfuffle?   Read More... Posted May 13 2008, 06:35 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: children, parents, bullying, child, girls, diversity, transgender, sex education, boys, counseling, peers, third grader, transition

• Weekly Check-Up: Natural Birth Like the Dutch

  There's an interesting report on the Dutch tradition of giving birth from the perspective of a Reuters reporter. Basically, the Dutch believe birth optimally happens at home (30 percent of births happen this way, compared to a tiny fraction in the U.S.,) no pain medication is necessary, and that labor pains are part of the way the mother bonds with the baby. (If so, I ought to be practically fused to my child.) The bottom line is that birth is not seen as a medicalized process. Oh, and get this: A maternity nurse takes care of the family at home for a week and does cooking, cleaning, and infant care. Sign me up for that part! While I've never been a convert to the notion of natural birth as essential... Read More... Posted Mar 27 2008, 01:29 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, newborn, homebirth, mother, child, maternity, hospital, labor and delivery, Dutch, epidural, infant care, weekly check up, natural birth, nurse, ob-gyn, anesthesia

• Friends Think Depressed Surrogate Mom to 8 is Crazy

  There are a couple of things going on in this story of a surrogate mom that are just, nicely put, very interesting. First, she is trying to get pregnant for the eighth time on behalf of someone other than herself. Wow, eight pregnancies is a lot of babies for any woman to bear. (Please don't confuse her with the surrogate mother to 12. Twelve!) The other thing is that this mom who has made a second career as a baby-haver is  43 years old and things are getting tough and she's starting to get depressed. She wanted to bear a sibling for the little girl, Isobel, whom she gave birth to in 2006, but nine weeks in to that pregnancy -- her egg and the 51-year-old father's sperm -- she miscarried. Her family is starting to worry. But the most striking thing for me ...   Read More... Posted Jan 22 2008, 10:35 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: child, childless, child birth, Conception, controversy, surrogacy, surrogate pregnancy, child rearing, surrogate mother, surrogate mothers, conceiving

• You Scream, I Scream for Adult Ice Cream

  There's something whimsical about the ice cream truck. It toddles around, singing, shouting, keeping kids tangled in childhood and bringing adults back to it. But who needs a Tweety Bird pop at 30? Thankfully, Gourmet magazine is adult-sizing summertime treats. And let's face it, if your children's ice cream truck handed out these delicious treats, you'd no doubt push the neighborhood kids out of the way to be first in line. (As if some of you don't already.) Apple-celery granitas. Chocolate-covered mint ice cream terrine. Peach praline semifreddo with amaretti. I am loving summer all over again. Posted Jul 05 2007, 10:05 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: child, ice cream, childhood

• Your Children Suck at Riting

  Young children are great at swinging. They're really good at playing tag. A few might be good at math. But man, they suck at writing. And history, apparently. I mean, come on! Kids these days have really got to pull it together, buckle down and hit the books. Case in point ... these essays written by kids. Here's an example: Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained. That's a really poor deconstruction of the work of history's greatest artists. Read More... Posted Jun 26 2007, 10:06 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: child, schools, studies, students

• Robot Toddler: Why?

  Japanese scientists have combined artificial intelligence and robotics to make a robot toddler. The pasty robot kid has 56 pneumatic muscles, so it moves relatively naturally, and it also has 197 tactile sensors that allow it to react to touch. It has natural reactions to sounds and other stimuli. Its robot eyes are cameras, and it squirms and wiggles like a baby. So as you can imagine, it is really effin' creepy. It is called CB2, for "Child-robot with Biomimetic Body," which was coincidentally our second choice baby name. The researchers are "committing a lot of their time in order to teach it how to walk or talk, and also to raise its intelligence to the level of a 3-year old." Bad idea. Life gets much harder when kids can walk, and for god's sake, age three is trouble squared. Part of me is very impressed with the technological advances, but the much more dominant part of me says, "Arggghbleugh". Watch the video and you'll see what I mean. Of course, unless the little robot whines and suddenly runs into the street without warning, he'll never pass as a real toddler. But why make a robot kid? It's not like kids are all that hard to come by, and frankly, they are often a pain in the AI. This one is just a big, doughy, weird baby that will now visit me in my nightmares. If I were a scientist, I'd make a robot Johnny Depp, and teach him to do my bidding. Or at the very least, a robot who could make me a nice latte and give me a back rub. My kid still can't even manage that much. Posted Jun 04 2007, 07:30 AM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: toddler, child, robotic babies, artificial intelligence

• Parent's Job: To Keep Watch

  It doesn't take more than about 30 seconds as a parent to realize that those new thrills and chills you feel up and down your spine are as related to fear and terror for your wee baby's safety as they are to love.  And it takes less than 3 minutes watching and/or listening to the news to clutch your kids tighter, and lock your doors, which I suppose is part of the point. So the fact that Sharon Randall is stating that the first job of good parents is keeping watch, is both overly simplistic and elegantly accurate. "Watching children is not a job for the faint of heart. It requires constant vigilance. If you blink, they run in the street. If you answer the phone, they juggle knives."   She ends her reflections about her son with "I wonder what the boy will do next" and you know? If that's not the crux of parenting, I don't know what is.  We stand by, watch over, wait and wonder what they'll do next.  And we are lucky and blessed to be so appointed. Posted May 30 2007, 03:49 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with no comments Filed under: parenting, child, good parents, children and safety

• Parents Are the Biggest. Dorks. Ever. And We Love Every Minute of It

  I danced in a grocery store Friday afternoon. And played air guitar. I may or may not have made facial expressions that may or may not have been mistaken for an "O Face." I was too excited to tell. But I definitely uncurled my thumbs and kicked my legs out like Elaine Benes. It was a sad, disturbing display of rhythmic paralysis that could only mean one thing: I'm a parent. And I'm a dork. USC Daily Trojan columnist Jean Guerrero says such displays of I'll-never-grow-up-Peter-Panisms may just be the cure-all for societal ills. Skip if you want to. Sing if you must. Screw social conventions. Just do it. I remember the social angst of high school and college. Even throughout my twenties I tried my best to fit in and, sadly, did. But once I had a child, it was like my Dork Flag unfurled itself and started waving in the breeze. I dance in stores. I sing on the sidewalk. I skip daily. Emmeline loves to dance and shake her arms about, so I jump on any chance to see her boogie, such as our Friday afternoon display of disco air guitar. Proudly wearing a Dork Merit Badge might seem like a big leap for the younger set, as evidenced by the column's call to dork arms. But isn't that what parents do all the time? Isn't that why we're here? Posted Apr 23 2007, 03:08 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, parents, child, behavior, kids who rock, parenthood, child development, kids playing

• Airlines Actually Help Keep Your Kid Quiet? Tickets Please!

  On a flight to Michigan several months ago, Dana and I brought onboard food, toys, games, blankets, pillows, baby syringes filled with baby horse tranquilizers -- anything we thought might keep Emmeline calm during the four-hour flight. The only thing the airline did to help out was lose our luggage. Turns out we've been flying the wrong airline (have fun with that bankruptcy, United!). Several international carriers are offering everything from puppets to puzzles to interactive televisions and children's programming to help make long flights easier for kids -- and the passengers around them. Even the worst carriers (is it that obvious I hate United?) are getting into the act by including kids show on their miniature TV screens. Where the hell were these perks when I was a kid? Sure, I occasionally caught a glimpse inside a cockpit, but I would have foregone the flashing lights, countless switches and crazy questions about Turkish prisons for the chance to pre-order my own meal and play Nintendo during a cross-country flight. That does it. We're definitely switching airlines. Posted Apr 10 2007, 11:31 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: traveling with kids, child, airlines, airplane, trends, airplane travel

• When Children's Underwear Says "Wink, Wink" There's a Problem

  The American Psychological Association released a study that -- surprise, surprise -- says young girls today are bombarded with sexual imagery that throttles their self-esteem and could actually make them dumb. Or at least perform poorly on tests when wearing bathing suits. Seriously. It's in the study. From racy blogs to stupid dolls, thongs for 7 year olds to underdressed pop culture figures, girls face a tsunami of images and messages that could lead children to act sexually like adults and adults to act like children. Of course, it's not too late to protect childhood. While the association calls for more study, it also offers some get-real talking points for parents. I've written about this before, probably too many times, but it's good to know I'm not the only one that finds it more than a little odd that some children's underwear says "wink, wink." Posted Feb 27 2007, 03:02 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, Sex, child, behavior, protecting children, girls, beauty contests, beauty, studies, sexuality, child development, girl's issues

• Is It Safe for Kids to Fly Solo?

  I read a book about raising daughters, "What a Difference a Daddy Makes." (Yes, yes, I know -- but I know so little about the opposite sex that I didn't think it could hurt.) The point is, the author said he never let his children fly alone -- even if it meant crisscrossing the country himself for no other reason than to play chaperone on United or, worse, AirTran. At first I thought he was crazy, but I began to wonder whether I would do the same when my own daughter comes to "flying alone age" (11 months, is it?). My wife, Dana, flew alone as a child and now takes a measure of pride that she slipped away from her steward captors, hopped off the plane in Chicago and called her parents while eating a hamburger. Her parents ordered her back to the plane immediately. Read More... Posted Feb 17 2007, 04:13 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: news, parents, child, law, child abuse, airport safety, airlines, AirTran, child molester, abuse, child porn, parenting issues

• New, Safer, Child Car Seat Being Developed

  It's about time!  Car seat manufacturer First Seat has announced the design of a passive child car-seat that will "significantly raise the standards" for child car seats.  The company plans to apply new technology to more effectively deal with frontal impact, and also adds focus on side impact safety, for which there currently is no national standard. (Side impact safety was the focus of concern in the recent Consumer Reports brou-ha-ha.) The new design will limit rotational movements of the head, especially in side impact. It will enclose the child in a rigid shell while protecting the head with the same type of foam as is used in Formula One racecars. In addition, the child's shoulders are supported, minimizing neck strain.  Recent medical research has shown conclusively that the brain is injured by rapid rotational movements rather than by direct impact. Think about "shaken-baby syndrome", and you get the idea.  Specifically, side-to-side rotation of the head causes internal 'stretching' forces on the brain and causes portions to immediately stop functioning. Read More... Posted Jan 31 2007, 06:38 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 112 comment(s) Filed under: child, car seats, safety, First Seat, child seat

• Travel "Tips" to Avoid Getting Ejected from Plane

  I'm beginning to feel for the Kulesza family -- or those people, as they will evermore be known. Those people who got kicked off a plane. Those people who couldn't control their daughter. Those people who destroyed countless travel plans delayed others for a whole 15 minutes. Those people who just can't seem to escape the glare of national headlines. This weekend, Yahoo's front page offered "helpful tips" for families across the country with a taunting headline: "How to avoid becoming the family that got kicked off an airplane after their 3-year-old threw a tantrum." The subtext? They suck. And they deserve another round of bashing disguised as a self help travel tips article. Read More... Posted Jan 29 2007, 03:07 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, travel, infant, child, travelling with kids, parenting advice, airlines, AirTran

• Beauty Pageant Monsters Exploit Their Parents

  These kids should be ashamed of themselves. It's just sickening what they're doing to their parents  -- not to mention their coaches, they hair and makeup artists, their singing and dancing instructors and their, I'm not joking, fake teeth makers. The list goes on and on -- these kids simply don't care who they exploit for fame and glory. I was channel surfing last night and noticed that VH1 had pre-empted a documentary called "Little Beauties" -- a love letter to pedophiles everywhere "light-hearted" documentary of an "American tradition:" beauty pageants -- for some show about kid stars and their creepy parents. I can see why. I did a little digging (read: google search) into "Little Beauties" and found that these girls are just out of control. No wonder VH1 ran something in its place. These girls have no shame. Read More... Posted Jan 28 2007, 11:47 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: television, Child Actors, activities, tv, parents, child, contest, beauty pageant, VH1

• Play Babble's Laughing Baby Contest and Win Free Crap!

  Babble is running a contest. Come join the fun! We all think our own children have the cutest laugh out of any baby that ever lived. Now you have the opportunity to prove you are the only one who isn't lying. As an added bonus, we've made it easy to enter: 1. Upload your video to YouTube and title it "Babble.com Laughing Baby Contest." Please also write "Babble.com Laughing Baby Contest" for the description. 2. Once you have successfully uploaded your video to YouTube, email the link to video@babble.com with Laughing Baby Contest" as the subject. The videos have to be less than one minute long and your baby has to be younger than two. There are some fantastic prizes from Skip Hop, so be sure to get your entries in my February 28th. You guys are so lucky that my kids are 2 1/2 or we would be a lock. Huh, I guess we all really do think we have the cutest kids. Posted Jan 25 2007, 05:22 PM by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, baby, Babble, child, contest, video

• Dakota Fanning's "Hounddog" Rape Scene Clears Way for Career

  What do you do when you're a 12-year-old movie/television star and puberty is setting in? You could go the route of poor Ben Seaver from "Growing Pains" and drop off the face of the earth. Or you could take the route of Jodie Foster, star in more adult fare ("Taxi Driver" ring a bell?) and segue perfectly into super stardom. Dakota Fanning, doe-eyed kid star of "Charlotte's Web" and "War of the Worlds," chose the latter route, and people. are. pissed. Her new movie "Hounddog" premieres Monday at the Sundance Film Festival. Based on something and retelling the story of whatever, the fury comes from the fact that the 12-year-old's character accepts her father in her bed, forces a boy to expose himself for a kiss and, somewhere along the way, is raped. Read More... Posted Jan 21 2007, 12:49 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: entertainment, Child Actors, Movies, Sex, child, dakota fanning, exploitation

• Airport Insecurity? Boy, 9, Flies Alone, Ticketless

  A Seattle boy, 9, hopped two Southwest Airlines flights this week.  By himself.  Without a ticket.  That's right, and he made it through airline security to do so.  Twice.  Semaj Booker's Seattle - Dallas odyssey began on Sunday when he stole a neighbor's car that had been left running and made off for the airport only to be given chase by authorities.  Semaj was apprehended and taken back to his mother after county juvenile officials refused to admit him because of his age.  He later escaped and somehow made his way to Sea-Tac, where he lied his way onto an airplane and again in Phoenix where he changed planes.  Semaj was foiled by a second attempt to change planes in San Antonio, and never made it to his destination of Dallas before airline workers finally were clued in that something was amiss and that his story didn't check out. Read More... Posted Jan 19 2007, 04:17 PM by Karen Murphy with | with no comments Filed under: child, Southwest Airlines, Seattle, airport safety, Dallas, airport security

• RECALL ALERT: Graco Contempo Highchair

  U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (UCPSC), along with children's product manufacturer giant Graco, has announced a voluntary recall to repair 100,000 Contempo™ high chairs sold at various retaliers between Decmber 2005 and December 2006.  The high chairs may collapse if not fully opened and locked into place from the storage position prior to use; there have been 18 reports of this happening, including one that caused a bruise on a child's foot.  According to the  UCPSC: "The Contempo™ highchairs have an “A” frame design. The highchairs feature six height adjustment positions and three recline positions. The recalled highchairs have model numbers that begin with 3800, 3803, 3804, 3805, 3810 and 3811 followed by a three letter fashion code. Model numbers included in the recall include: 3800COU, 3800DRB, 3800FMT, 3800GGG, 3800GRM, 3800HEM, 3800JEN, 3800LEG, 3800MNS, 3800OWD, 3800SND, 3800TFE, 3800RIT, 3803HRL, 3804CNR, 3805BDA, 3810PEW, 3810PST and 3811PST. The model number and manufacturing date are printed underneath the snack tray of these highchairs."  They were sold at the following stores:  Babies “R” Us, Toys “R” Us, Target, Target.com, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart.com, Burlington Coat Factory, Shopko, AAFES, USA Baby and others. If you own a recalled high chair, Graco advises that you ensure it is fully opened before placing your child in it (duh!), and you also may obtain a free repair kit by calling (877) 445-1312  or via their website. Posted Jan 19 2007, 02:19 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: child, Graco, recall, safety, high chair

• Crocodile Hunter's Wife Bares Teeth to Defend Daughter ... Finally

  Poor Bindi Sue Irwin. And I'm not talking about the fact she was named after a crocodile. (Seriously, 8-year-olds have their own wikipedia pages now?) I'm talking about the fierce debate that has centered around her new show: "Bindi, the Jungle Girl." The girl wants to follow in the footsteps of her woild father, Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, but Australian politicians and American news shows have teamed up to say the girl is being exploited for TV gain. (Because non-stop chatter about a cute pixie of a girl does nothing for ratings, huh Fox?) Her mother, it seems, has had enough. At a news conference, Terri Irwin cut off a reporter who continuously asked the girl about her famous Crocodile Hunter father, who died last year when he was attacked by a stingray. "I don't know that I want to go down that line," she said. Read More... Posted Jan 16 2007, 11:00 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Celebrities, entertainment, bindi irwin, Child Actors, animal planet, tv, child, australia, attacked, celebrity babies

• BabyTV.com Loves Moms, Hates Dads

  I was looking through my news feeds today and saw a PR release from some outfit called BabyTV.com. The release read, in part, that babyTV.com would be offering interactive content that would address "the needs of new and expectant parents", as well as allow me to "respond to synchronized and targeted advertisements" and "engage in e-commerce transactions." Well, as you all know, there's nothing I love more than responding to synchronized and targeted advertisements. I pulled the site up and gave it a once-over. That's when I noticed that, contrary to the gender-neutral press release, BabyTV.com branded itself as "The world's first Internet Television ntwork dedicated to Moms." What about dads? Pfffft. Didn't you realize that we don't exist? We just fork over the sperm and we're DONE, baby! Nope, sorry honey, can't change a diaper; I don't have an Internet Television site on hand to show me how. Seriously, though, this is obnoxious. Why are fathers still, in the 21st century, always left out of the equation? You would think that the men of the world need information about baby-rearing more than their female counterparts do. I mean, there isn't even a token section reserved for guys; how parentally uncorrect can you get? (Then again, these are the same folks who run Posh Tots, which tires to convince parents that, yes, your child really does need that $40,000 chalet playhouse. Do we want those folks speaking to us?) Posted Dec 28 2006, 02:03 PM by thezeroboss with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: children, baby, birth, child, fathers, mothers, babytv

• Merry Freakin' Christmas...from Our Family to Yours

  A most Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Strollerderby team! Thanks for reading us in our infancy. We look forward to continuing to blog our tushies off through 2007, and provide you the best parenting news and commentary this side of the Internet. Have a happy! Posted Dec 25 2006, 02:18 PM by thezeroboss with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, christmas, children, parents, child, holidays, xmas

• The Katie Blair Brouhaha: Has Mothers against Drunk Driving Gone Overboard (Again)?

  I dislike Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). It's not because I consider their original mission misplaced. to the contrary, it's quite noble. But as Radley Balko (among others) has noted, MADD has gone beyond the mission of reducing drunk driving fatalities and crossed the line into promoting "neo-prohibition". Their push to penalize divorced parents who drink, and their successful campaign to increase the number of drunk drivers in the US by lowering the blood alcohol content for DUI to .08, have not made America's roads any safer; they've merely stigmatized legal adult behavior. Even MADD founder Candy Lightner now repudiates the organization as "overzealous". How had MADD responded to such criticism? By being even more overzealous than ever! Its latest stunt: cutting ties with Miss Teen USA Katie Blair because she was supposedly seen "partying" with Miss USA Tara Conner. The Miss Teen USA organization, mind you, hasn't cut ties with Blair or moved to strip her of her crown; it's determined that the allegations are much ado about nothing. But MADD doesn't give a damn. For them, a mere association with alcohol is enough to run screaming in the other direction. As a parent, it pisses me off to no end when MADD pulls crap like this in the name of "protecting the kids". Katie Blair is 18; the only reason her drinking is "underage" is because MADD continues to lobby to keep the legal age artificially high. It's one thing to crack down on drunk driving; it's quite another to demonize all drinking. Do us parents a favor, MADD: stop using our kids in your crusade to return us to the days of Al Capone and speakeasies. Posted Dec 22 2006, 08:03 AM by thezeroboss with | with no comments Filed under: parenting, children, parents, miss teen usa, drinking, underage drinking, dui, madd, alcohol, katie blair, child

• Linklove: Is Late-Night Christmas Shopping a Form of Child Abuse?

  Izzy at IzzyMom lays into parents who take their small kids out shopping after 10pm. By her observation, a disturbing number of moms and dads think it's hunky-dory to cart their wee ones around until they melt down in a wail of exhausted tears - or, even worse, get them so tired that they cross the line into hyperactivity. As Izzy decrees: If they’re running around like you just shot ‘em full of meth, it’s because they’re OVERTIRED. You’ve been parents for what looks to be 3-4 years now. How is it that you don’t know this by now and what in holy hell makes you think that yelling your fool heads off at them is going to change anything? As The Blogfather would say: "Indeed." In my experience, the vast majority of child misbehavior in public is due to idiot parents who want to stick to their preconceived schedules, their children be damned. Please, parents of Strollerderby: don't be that idiot. Every village may need one, but that doesn't mean you have to volunteer. Posted Dec 22 2006, 01:26 AM by thezeroboss with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, christmas, children, kids, holiday, linklove, shopping, parents, child, izzymom, village idiot