Babble

I just stumbled upon a recent Slate video which would be every bit as funny as Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, or any other mockumentary if the people in it weren’t entirely serious. Slate headed over to L.A.’s Baby and Tween Celebration, which offers a cornucopia of costly, unnecessary, and potentially soul-destroying gear for your ...

I’m not one to get too bent out of shape if I hear kids singing along with Lady GaGa or Beyonce. Throughout elementary school, I listened to songs with risqué lyrics (I remember performing a dance to “Like a Virgin” to my shell-shocked parents in fourth grade), and I didn’t end up pole dancing for a living. But neither did I ...

Swedish parents are fighting the government for the right to name their baby one letter. The government claims that their child, who has been called simply Q since birth, has an illegal name since Swedish law prohibits names that consist of only one letter. But the couple has argued before court that their son answers to ...

A South Florida family is prepared to take their battle for pet poultry all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. The Kohns, an Orthodox Jewish family of twelve, live in the upscale, suburban neighborhood of Hollywood, Florida with their seven pet chickens. The chickens live in the Kohns' backyard, with a playhouse for shelter. Although ...

Does your daughter have a burning desire to play Ouija board? But clearly she can’t since the game is totally for boys? Well, for only $19.99, you can make your daughter’s dream come true, because Hasbro just came out with a new “just for girls” Ouija board!  What makes this edition different from the original Ouija board that can ...

An eight-year-old who is biologically male but who has always identified as female has decided to begin living openly as a girl, even though this will mean leaving her beloved elementary school.The second grader’s parents consulted with therapists and transgender specialists for many years before deciding to allow their son to live as ...

A 42-year-old father has been let off the hook for attempting to give his son a morally reprehensible birthday gift. Having decided it was time for his 14-year-old son to lose his virginity, the British resident drove the boy into the red-light district and told him to pick a prostitute. Fortunately, the son accidentally picked an ...

A judge has ruled that a 13-year-old boy with cancer must resume chemotherapy against his parents’ wishes. After Daniel Hauser was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, doctors told him that he had a good chance of being cured through chemotherapy and radiation. But after just one treatment, which doctors say reduced the size of ...

British parents are up in arms about a commercial for Levonelle, an over-the-counter emergency contraception pill. After the commercial was aired on three TV channels, hundreds of parents called radio shows to express their outrage."Even though it was shown after 9pm my teenage daughters were watching,” one father said. “The ...

Joshua Childers may only be three, but, man, does he have stories to tell. The Missouri toddler recently spent three days and two nights alone in the wilderness after he wandered off in the vast forest behind his house. As Joshua is treated in the hospital for hypothermia, bug bites, and scratches, the secrets to his survival are ...