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But, sometimes, smart products really are intelligent options that actually help improve upon existing products — or provide some extra safety or insight that help you make more informed decisions. But, more importantly, all are sound pieces of baby gear that work well and just so happen to have excellent, smart features that help make parents’ lives a little bit easier. But, sometimes, smart products really are intelligent options that actually help improve upon existing products — or provide some extra safety or insight that help you make more informed decisions. The BlueSmart Mia Smart Baby Feeding System is a sleeve-and-app combo that slips onto most baby bottles to track the content’s temperature, your child’s feeding, and a host of other data, including alerts for milk expiration, meal times, and more.

In the national standardized version of this test, every inch you can reach beyond your toes from a straight-leg seated position earns you points. Here’s the dad twist: measure your ability to sit on the floor holding your child’s toys in one hand while trying to retrieve the checkers or game pieces tossed past your feet with the other arm. Holding a piece of chalk in your hand, reach that arm up straight against the wall, making a small chalk mark at the highest point you can reach. Anything greater than 7.5 feet is ideal, but note: Even if you hit the gold standard, if your child’s railroad spans 7.4 feet in your living room, we still wouldn’t recommend trying to leap it.

I’m crying because Teddy found the buzz cutter,” Plucknette says in a shaky voice, as she flips the camera to show Teddy, five, and Eloise, three, standing in the kitchen with their heads half-shaved. It will grow back,” she says to her kids, including Fred, two, who also had his hair cut by his big brother, in the clip. Plucknette (whose original Instagram Story, since being retweeted by her brother, has received over 8.5 million views so far) told BuzzFeed News that her kids actually like their new ‘dos now that their dad shaved them all properly. Y’all, my nephew found the electric shaver and went wild 😂😂😂

And if she didn’t like any of the exchanges you had with any of the daycare personnel, she would call you at night and give you a two-hour phone call about why she doesn’t want you talking to these people. On my son’s first day of daycare, we took him to the door of the place where we interviewed the owner a couple of times, toured, discussed programming and paid our fees. But one day another mom who used her as a babysitter called me and told me that this daycare worker no longer works at the daycare and that she’s going to be arrested. That day, [the daycare worker] called me and said she had more time to watch [my son] because she’d left the daycare.