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• The Importance of an Exit Strategy

  One of the most frustrating dilemmas I've faced as a parent isn't the age-old snag of getting your kids to pick up their crap. While I do get all worked up over kid stuff tossed all over the place, the parenting challenge that really churns my butter is less specific. What gets me are those moments when I feel truly helpless in the face of certain behaviors, like my kids not picking up their crap.. Usually, I resort to yelling.   Read More... Posted May 21 2008, 11:30 AM by Adrienne Martini with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: tantrums, yelling, huffpo, Gretchen Rubin, screaming, strategy, 3-2-1

• Tired Toddlers Might Drive Moms to Yell --or Vice Versa

  Which came first, the exhausted parent or the screechy parenting style that can accompany that level of  tired? That's the question raised by an Australian study that found mothers who yell or hit their kids are more likely to have toddlers with sleep difficulties.   Pediatrician Harriet Hiscock studied 4600 families and found that children were twice as likely to have sleep problems that persisted though the toddler years if their mothers had a hostile parenting style characterized by yelling and smacking than a more warm demeanor. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2008, 07:39 PM by AmyinMotown with | with no comments Filed under: toddlers, sleep, hitting, sleep deprivation, yelling, hostile parenting, parental exhaustion

• Voice Activated Blender? Holler!

  The whiz kids at MIT have invented a device that should be nominated for a Nobel Prize for its outstanding contribution in the field of Everyday Items that Benefit the Greater Good of all Humankind and Getting Your Drink On. Previous winners are the EZ Pull Corkscrew and the Sippin' Seat Flask Seat Cushion (Come on, it’s a stadium seat cushion with an internal flask and nozzle. You don’t even have to get up!) But the MIT brainiacs have done them all one better by inventing the Blendie 2000, a voice-controlled blender. Read More... Posted Nov 22 2007, 09:49 AM by makeitadouble with | with no comments Filed under: inventions, yelling, frozen drinks, christmas list, MIT, margaritas

• Alec Baldwin Just Wont Quit, Screams at Dora

  Now Alec Baldwin is royally pissed at Dora.  Yelling at your daughter on voicemail? That I can understand.  Sure, she's only 11, but she should really be more considerate.  Parental alienation is no laughing matter.  But yelling at beloved Dora the Explorer? Now I fear Baldwin has gone too far.   [via Daddy Types]  Posted Apr 30 2007, 08:10 AM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with no comments Filed under: video, dora the explorer, alec baldwin, ireland baldwin, yelling, yelling at dora