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Happy Mother’s Day!

In honor of Mother’s Day this weekend, our one- and three-year-old kids decided to give their mom a break and write this blog post for her. Here’s what they came up with:

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Kids’ art: our latest excuse to talk about butts and farts

Like looking at art, but don’t like feeling pressured to come up with a bunch of insightfully pretentious stuff to say about it? Just do what the Doctor and the Dad did this week – skip the museum and go check out an art show at your child’s preschool instead! When your kids work on […]

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Celebrity Parenting Strategies From Stephen Colbert

Ever feel like you’re letting your kids watch too much TV? Maybe that’s just because you’re letting them watch a bunch of terrible, mindless, garbage-y crapfests. Or at least that’s how Stephen Colbert sees it. Check out this clip of Stephen explaining why he lets his kids watch as much Mr. Peabody & Sherman as […]

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Making Mardi Gras family friendly

Mardi Gras is a special time for the Doctor and the Dad, because it marks the anniversary of when (and where) we first met. Although it turned out that we were living in college dorm rooms about fifty yards away from each other at the time, it took each of us making a 1,000-mile road […]

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The ‘Muffin Top’ rapper loves it when you call her Big Momma

First, a bunch of 19th-century British children asked, “Do You Know The Muffin Man?” Then Seinfeld and friends wished everyone a fond “Top of the Muffin to You!” And now, mother of two Erin Keaney adds to this rich muffin-related entertainment tradition with the “Muffin Top Rap.”

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The Berenstain Bears theme song makes either no sense, or more sense than you could ever hope to comprehend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJKpcfm1qD4 Here’s what happened when a family of four waxed philosophical over the most cryptic lyric in children’s television. If you’re like most parents of young children, you’ve been subjected to way more kiddie cartoons lately than you care to admit. As a result, your brain is now completely filled with shows and shows’ worth […]

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10 Ways To “Get Some” This Valentine’s Day, Even Though Your Kids Have Completely Destroyed Your Will to Do It

Ah, Valentine’s Day. The sexiest, sultriest, most romantic day of the year for childless couples everywhere. For the rest of us, however, it’s a 24-hour period filled with just as many tears, tantrums and wet-wipe-necessitating messes as any other. So what are a Mommy and Daddy who want to raise a family and get their […]