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Should lingerie companies make padded bras for 8-year-olds?

Child-size Coconut Bra
Child-sized Coconut Bra

If you are a parent of a young girl, you should know that some clothing manufacturers are looking to have your children grow up faster than you may want them to.

According to the Daily Mail, a discount clothing company is SELLING PADDED BRAS FOR CHILDREN.

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Funny Websites

Today’s Funny: Postcards from Yo Momma

Email for Seniors: a step-by-step guide for the computer shy
Email for Seniors: a step-by-step guide for the computer shy

How many of you are scared about your parents being on email or following/friending you on social networks?

Yeah.

Thought so.

Does it help if you knew that you were not alone?  That pretty much everyone doesn’t want to have any more interaction with their parents than was already being provided by phone or Sunday evening dinners?

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10 Things

7 Ideas for a Teen Date – and one way to keep their hands to themselves

8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter
Eight Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter

Because others think that Web Watch knows everything, they often turn to us looking for answers to questions that we really wouldn’t think that we would have any basis of expertise in.

Case in point – we were visiting with old friends when their teenage daughter stopped by the kitchen to say hi on her way out the door for a date.  As she chatted with everyone, the question came up about where teens go on for a date in today’s environment.  We don’t know why everyone thought that we would have an answer to this, and our friend’s daughter wasn’t offering any suggestions herself.

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News

96% of parents think their children are “well behaved”. (They must leave those kids at home)

The Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums
The Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums

The NYTimes is reporting that a recent CDC survey on family life states that 96% OF PARENTS THINK THEIR CHILDREN ARE WELL-BEHAVED (see page 148 of report).

If you’ve been out to eat at a restaurant lately or shopped at the local mall, you know that perception just can’t be true.

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Book How To Websites

An even better list of possible baby names

The Name Thang Baby Name Book: 15,000 Names with English, Spanish and French Translations
The Name Thang Baby Name Book: 15,000 Names with English, Spanish and French Translations

So the other day, Web Watch mentioned the TOP BABY NAMES FOR 2010.

One of Web Watch’s readers pointed us out to an baby naming book entitled BETTER NAMES FOR BABY, available for purchase on the linked website.

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10 Things

The Top 100 Baby Names and Baby Naming Trends for 2010


20001 Baby Names - Find the Perfect Baby Name
20001 Baby Names – Find the Perfect Baby Name

Here’s another year-end list to amuse you with: BABYCENTER’s TOP 100 BABY NAMES FOR 2010.

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Funny Websites

STFU, Parents – because mocking bragging parents never gets old


STFU
STFU

Are you sick and tired of those happy new parents who think everything that their little angel does is absolutely freakin’ perfect?

While you can typically deal with them in person – especially if they’re close friends – there are thousands of more annoying people like that online.

Of course there is.

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How To

How to use beads in jars to teach kids the value of working for allowance and saving money


Allowance Jar
Allowance Jar

Web Watch was at a friend’s house the other day when we noticed a lineup of jars along the kitchen counter, each one decorated with one of their children’s names.  Inside the jars were various amounts of glass beads, found at your local arts-and-crafts store.

We had to ask – what’s up with the jars?