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Every now and then Republicans do something to remind the world why anyone would ever want to vote for them. Also, sometimes elected officials sound like children's television characters. What the hell am I talking about? CNN reports that, "House conservatives urged Congress on Tuesday to 'take...

Daddy Hugh Jackman and his son Oscar got the balloons ready for the birthday girl. Ava Jackman turned 3 and she did it in style. Cuteness ensued: See? Cuteness. Happy Birthday, Ava! Photos

Surely you've been to a party (or thrown one of your own) that seemed like a good idea in theory and wound up being kind of god-awful. Frightening clowns, anyone? A reporter lady is looking for your story. This is what she says: I am a newspaper reporter and am working on a story related to parents'...

Robert Smigel might be the funniest human being alive. I also think he must have kids, or at the very least is very tuned in to children's television, because this parody of Dora The Explorer from SNL -- titled "Maraka and Mittens" -- is spot on and hilarious. "One of the mommy penguins...

I don’t know how it happened. One day, my darling daughter was happy with Seame Street, madly in love with Elmo. The next, seemingly as if by decree, she's spouting Spanish and rolling up every stray piece of paper and calling it Map. Yes, like every other two-year-old, the girl had discovered Dora...

With the holidays upon us, the steady trickle of video games for kids has turned into a landslide. There's plenty of educational gaming to be found (watch this space...), but this week's focus is on licensed games -- those flashy, store-aisle eyeball-grabbers that work in characters and plotlines...

More power to those of you who've managed to keep your little ones offline, but for the rest of us, Nickelodeon has launched myNOGGIN , a subscription-based, ad-free site aimed at preschoolers through first graders. Featuring a variety of curriculum-based learning games developed with an educational...

Forget the Stones/Beatles, Yankees/Sox, or Ashlee/Jessica Simpson debates. There really are only two types of people in this world: Diego people and Dora people. After carefully examining the two, Alyssa at MommyBlogsToronto declared Diego the winner . I must respectfully disagree. Don't get me wrong...