To the person who heard that Beautiful Wife was at work so I was home alone with ElmoGirl07, and asked, “So you’re babysitting?”

No, I’m parenting.

Here’s an idea that had its heart in the right place, and the price seems fair, but I see a couple problems with a chiller for a child car seat.

First of all, you’re covering a hot seat back, hurray, but replacing it with a back-freeze inducing 32 degrees. Imagine being a sweaty child and sitting with your butt and back on an ice cube.

Second, it won’t protect a child from the hot metal of seat buckles in front of them,  unless you kept the seat buckle covered all the time with this chiller — in which case, when do you keep the chiller in the freezer?

Car Seat Cooler | lilsugar - Baby, Toddlers, Kids & Parenting

A bill easily passed the Wisconsin Legislature and is waiting for the governor’s signature that requires insurance companies to pay for cochlear implants or hearing aids for children to restore their hearing. Specifically, the bill says insurance companies can’t consider hearing loss a pre-existing condition for children.

Bill Passes to Make Insurance Cover Children’s Hearing Restoration | WBAY-TV

From my local TV station. A group from NASA and Honeywell wants to get kids interested in science and shows them how it works…

The women over at Momversation jump into the vaccine / anti-vaccine debate.

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I admit being a little nervous about “Where the Wild Things Are.” It was a beloved book in my childhood and my sister’s, too — my nephew’s room was decorated with the pages of the book when he was an infant (who needs wallpaper?) Spike Jonze, who did the wonderfully wacky “Being John Malkovich,” wouldn’t have been my first choice to direct, but he chose to make the monsters “real” with Jim Henson’s workshop team, not some office of CGI programmers. We’ll find out October 16th.

In the meantime, enjoy the new movie poster. See the larger version here…

New WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Poster | Collider.com

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