Recently, Jets super virile cornerback Antonio Cromartie had his second child with wife Terricka—which means he now has 10 kids by eight different women in six states. One more and he has enough for a football team! And of course, with that much baby drama, the reality shows have started a-callin'. more ›

For the last five years the CDC has been warning parents that if they don't start getting their kids to brush their teeth cavities would be coming in droves [PDF]. But apparently parents had other things to worry about and, the Times reports, the number of tykes being put under for dental surgery nationwide is now booming. Another reason to put fluoride in the tap water! more ›

Some Queens parents who are against vaccinating their kids on religious grounds have sued the city to get rid of the policy which keeps kids with communicable diseases out of school. "It is my opinion that resorting to vaccinations demonstrates a lack of faith in God, which would anger God and therefore be sacrilegious," said Fabian Mendoza-Vaca, the father of two students at P.S. 107, who sued the city last week in Queens Supreme Court to overturn principals’ decisions to send his kids home. more ›

The woman accused of abandoning her two young daughters alongside the busy Shore Parkway in Brooklyn was set up by the girls' abusive father, relatives tell WPIX. "What it all boils down to is the money," says Dalisha Adams's aunt Amy. She says Shawn Cobbs, Adams's estranged boyfriend and father of her daughters, is the one who abandoned the girls, as part of a scheme worked out with their grandmother. Adams's brother Peyisai also maintains that his sister handed the girls off to Cobbs. "I don't know if he walked off and left the kids," says Peyisai. "I really can't answer." more ›

This fad has been around for a while, but the Cinnamon Spoon Test is still happening out there in YouTube-land... and Brooklyn. Basically, you try to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon, preferably while one of your friends films you. You then upload it to YouTube, where there are about a million other videos like it, each ending... badly. Because no one can beat the cinnamon spoon challenge! Not even these bros—because all of the underchin facial hair in the world can't save you from the dry burn of cinnamon. And yet here we are, in 2012, with new "Cinnamon Spoon Challenge" content uploaded every day! more ›

We're not gonna lie, these girls have a lot of work to do, but Franny and Sofia are probably only like, what, 7? 8-years-old? So let's cut 'em some slack. Plus, what they don't deliver in on-air smoothness, they deliver in adorableness. And they're broadcasting straight out of Brooklyn, no less! Here they are giving us the weather, and reporting on that whole billboard incident on the BQE (with custom illustrations!): more ›

Motor vehicles are the number one cause of death for children in NYC, but a new study (below) by Transportation Alternatives finds that children in or around public housing projects are disproportionately at risk. The report, which analyzed Dept. of Motor Vehicle data 1995-2009, says there are child crash "hot spots" in neighborhoods such as East Harlem and the Lower East Side, particularly near the projects. The LES recently saw a 12-year-old girl fatally run over while crossing the infamously dangerous Delancey Street, but the study finds East Harlem has the "worst intersection for child crashes" in all of Manhattan: East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue. more ›

Children: always with the pooping and the peeing, and often at inopportune times, like when Mrs. Warner is trying to educate the rotten bathroom-abusing fifth graders at P.S. 90 on Coney Island! According to an email obtained by Brooklyn Daily, Warner and the school's principal, Greta Hawkins, are fed up with students micturating and defecating whenever their indulgent little bodies want to cut loose. So they've implemented a rewards system where students who demonstrate the most self-control over the course of a week win an array of fabulous prizes, like stickers and pencils! The winners can then use these for fun activities while they recover from their bladder infections. more ›

Everybody knows it takes a lot of shrewd planning to pull of a baby formula caper—you need to assemble the right team, find a trustworthy getaway driver, and above all make sure you have a good fence who can unload the formula on the black market. We're not sure what kind of prep work the man in this surveillance video did before this botched heist, but it seems obvious you don't just stroll out the front door of a Target with $1,437 worth of baby formula and expect to slip by unnoticed. After all, it's not like shoplifting a pack of Huggies! more ›

We already know that kids are serious about their dinosaurs—our favorite MoMA critic reminded us of that fact last year. So it doesn't come as that big a surprise kids would know more about Triceratops' and Styracosaurus' than toy makers would—but who knew they could give such brutal critiques! The little girl in the video below finds multiple mistakes with a 3D dinosaur toy, and tears apart the product with the ferocity of an adorable mini-Robert Christgau. "But they got the beak right," she mercifully decrees about the pitiful toy. more ›

The issue of children and dining out is a bit of a hot topic these days (baby tax, anyone?), but until now, few have dared to explore the question of children and...dining in. Leave it to the highfalutin gourmands over at Gourmet to tackle the issue, advising dinner party hosts on how to ban kiddies from the table in a polite way. Sort of. more ›

As the dust settles on Occupy Wall Street's "day of action" on Thursday, allegations have emerged that some protesters harassed young kids as they walked to school with their parents near Wall Street in the morning. CBS reports that they saw one protester follow a father and his little daughter down one block, while others chanted "follow those kids!" One mother told CBS, "For them it’s horrible. They’re afraid of all the crowds. We’re not even able to get through. They’re just, he’s … very afraid now.” Watch their report below: more ›

Great news for the youth of America: the government, which may very well be run by cheese-loving 12-year-olds, has decided that pizza totally counts as a vegetable. more ›

Science says that kids need recess (nevermind that Science also says winos won't get sunburned—Science works in mysterious ways) to work out the wiggles* and show kids that they can indeed interact with their friends away from a computer screen. Parents of students at PS 58 want to ensure that their children get recess, even when it's snowy, and they want to close Carroll Street between Court and Smith Streets in Carroll Gardens on days when the playground is too ice-covered to be used. But a few civic leaders are opposed to the pint-sized block party, claiming that the street is too busy to be closed. Clearly, they have never played games of manhunt that spanned multiple recesses. more ›

Parents are not pleased with the latest Barbie to hit shelves, complaining that she's inappropriate for the delicate eyes of children. The tokidoki Barbie sports a neon pink bob, is covered in elaborate tattoos, and walks a spike-covered pet named Bastardino. Which actually sounds like...the coolest Barbie on the market in years! more ›

Man, Occupy Wall Street is really going after the youth! Say you're a parent, not quite ready to sign off on a Camp Zuccotti kids sleepover, but you still want Sally to vive la revolution firsthand. No problem! Schools across the city are taking field trips to OWS, where your precious can learn about pepper spray under the watchful eye of a trained educator. more ›

Kids today grow up so fast. They're having their first Kahlua mudslide at 15 months, and the next thing you know they're getting on the schoolbus in a bikini. But 10-year-old CJ Senter, "WorkoutKid" and "Child Motivator," possesses discipline that eludes most adults: he's scarily ripped. As in, the urge to clean your laundry on his abs is pretty much irrisitable. Or as this ABC News anchor puts it (in a totally not-creepy way): "His name is CJ Senter, and his body is amazing." more ›

Four men were arrested Tuesday and accused of selling heroin out of a Long Island beer distributor near two schools. Two Bronx men, Jason Cruz, 21, and Jeffrey Marmolejos, 22, were arrested after police purchased several bags of heroin from them at Wantagh Beverage. “The fact that it's next to the schools is what is of particular interest in this case,” said Detective Lt. William Burke of the Suffolk Narcotics Squad. more ›

Proof that not all corporations are pure evil: Casio has, out of the goodness of its own heart, donated a brand-new keyboard to 13-year-old Jason Cordero, a subway busker who goes by the name "The World's Happiest Boy." Oh, and the good publicity doesn't hurt, either. more ›

TLC's hit documentary on ridiculously bad parenting, Toddlers and Tiaras, took the leap from the small screen to Fashion Week yesterday. Former Real Housewives of New York person Kelly Bensimon hosted the “Cowgirl Riders Debutante Fashion Show” for a bunch of too-innocent-to-understand-how-terrible-their-parents-are six-year-olds in the basement of the Bryant Park Hotel. The headliner of the show was Eden Wood, the breakout star of the TLC freakshow who left the program to pursue other equally-sad opportunities. Watch some totally age-appropriate video of her slapping her butt at the event below! more ›

Yeah, we've seen some pretty good dancing on the subways before. But The Daily What pointed us in the direction of some dance-moves-to-rule-them-all in the adorable video below: “This little boy was rocking the F out for the entire ride from Chambers St. to Myrtle-Broadway, dancing for nearly a half an hour, without a care in the world. Every time he put his hand on his chest like Usher I cracked up.” The kid sings, sways, fans and finger points as unselfconsciously as is humanely possible—and his mother ties his shoe laces. Can a subway ride get any better? more ›

And now, for your Absolutely Adorable break of the day: Six-year-old Morningside Heights resident Helen Stone spent her Sunday morning selling lemonade and homemade cookies to benefit the New York Public Library. Ramona Quimby would be so proud! more ›

Jennifer O'Brien, the first grade teacher in New Jersey who posted on her Facebook wall "i’m not a teacher - i’m a warden for future criminals," says that her comments were simply made in the heat of the moment. more ›

Can a thief also be a good Samaritan? A Queens carjacker got more then he bargained for when he stole an idling car on Tuesday—he discovered two young kids and a poodle in the van. And after being inundated with cuteness, and scolded by the kids for trying to steal their change, he decided to drop them—and the car—off at their home. more ›

Being a lifeguard is to balance the very important job of protecting the lives of swimmers with the crushing monotony of sitting in the sun, twirling a whistle all day. 28-year-old lifeguard Erlen Rodriguez felt he could get stoned before heading to his job at the Wagner pool on E. 124th street, but was pulled over after running a red light and almost killing pedestrians in the street. According to the Post, inside Rodriguez's 1992 Honda was "a joint and a golfball-sized bag of marijuana," along with his 26-year-old girlfriend and their two children—ages 5 and 11—in the backseat. more ›

There's been a big ole brouhaha about kids in restaurants in the past few days—specifically, about whether or not children and their big mouths and poor table manners should be allowed in restaurants at all. more ›