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How Hip Are You?
I’ll file this under “what will they think of next?”
I’m sure most of us have iPods these day (who doesn’t?). Honestly, if I hadn’t been given one, I probably wouldn’t myself, I still call it my “walkman”. How sad is that?
But, how hip are your babies?? Do you have the new iCrib? That’s right, now you can upload all of your baby’s favorite tunes and play them right there in the crib! Our kids are most likely never going to know what life was like without all of this tech. Yes, it’s great in many ways, but I’m sure some of us would really miss that cute mobile that plays lousy music (but usually works to get the kids to sleep!).
If you’re interested, here’s a brief review of the new device that just hooks up to the crib with a space for your own iPod.
Just beware when the kid gets old enough to figure the thing out and starts blasting Van Halen in the middle of the night 
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Oh Really, Not Enough Sleep For Moms?
Find someone else to cook dinner, clean the house, go to work, feed the kids, get them ready for bed. I doubt most moms would want to give up all that - well maybe the cleaning part
I guess for now we’ll just have to on as we have been and try to squeeze in a cat nap every once in a while (literally, my cat sleeps about 20 hours a day! - if only)
Thu Oct 19, 6:27 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Half of U.S. mothers are not getting enough sleep and they believe getting more rest would make them better parents, according to a U.S. study.
A nationwide survey of 500 mothers by research firm Braun Research found 54 percent of respondents said they were not getting enough sleep.
Full-time working mothers were suffering the most with 59 percent saying they were not getting enough sleep. Half of the working mothers said they were getting six or fewer hours sleep a night.
Stay-at-home moms fared better with 48 percent saying they were sleep deficient.
The Banning of Tag
Hard to believe growing up without playing tag. Seem to remember spending lots of time running around chasing my friends (and no one ever got hurt). If they keep cutting back on ways to for kids to have fun and get some exercise, the childhood obesity problem may get even worse.
ATTLEBORO, Mass. - Tag, you’re out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they’ll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Recess is “a time when accidents can happen,” said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.
While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.