Those of you who have been around the blogosphere for quite some time will remember the blog Grow-a-Brain, because we linked to it often. Hanan Levin stopped blogging to begin a family a few years ago. Now little Adora is three, and Hanan has been documenting her childhood on another blog. And as sometimes happens when both your parents know a lot of artists, those artists have been drawing, painting, and photographing Adora. In fact, 500 artists are contributing pictures of Adora, and they are being posted one every few days. Link -via Metafilter

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I've noticed that my two-year old does this when we play hide-and-seek. When she covers her eyes, she thinks that I can't see her. Why? Researchers at the University of Cambridge investigated:

In both studies so far, when the children thought they were invisible by virtue of their eyes being covered, they nonetheless agreed that their head and their body were visible. They seemed to be making a distinction between their "self" that was hidden, and their body, which was still visible. Taken together with the fact that it was the concealment of the eyes that seemed to be the crucial factor for feeling hidden, the researchers wondered if their invisibility beliefs were based around the idea that there must be eye contact between two people - a meeting of gazes - for them to see each other (or at least, to see their "selves").

This idea received support in a further study in which more children were asked if they could be seen if a researcher looked directly at them whilst they (the child) averted their gaze; or, contrarily, if the researcher with gaze averted was visible whilst the child looked directly at him or her. Many of the children felt they were hidden so long as they didn't meet the gaze of the researcher; and they said the researcher was hidden if his or her gaze was averted whilst the child looked on.

The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal has a similar mental limitation, but it never grows out of it.

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Martin Schmid, an art instructor at the Swiss school Schule für Gestaltung, taught his students how to carve potatoes into letter stamps. This looks like a fun craft for kids!

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Holy Mary and Joseph! Don't you know those things aren't safe?! Get Jesus out of that thing before he goes down a flight of stairs. Child safety standards in First Century Bethlehem (yes, Bethlehem, not Egypt) were obviously deficient. Or at least as the Clèves Master, an anonymous Fifteenth Century Dutch artist, imagined them in an illuminated manuscript.

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Redditor spasms posted this photo of a baby enjoying a bath in the sink on a hot day.

Redditor Aspirin742 and his 6-year old daughter are currently neck-and-neck in the polls to be elected President of their house. The campaigns have resorted to nasty smears that should disgrace both candidates, except that Elissa's accusations are mostly true--at least according to PolitiFact.

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Now you(r little ones) can sleep like a snuggle bug all wrapped up in a rug on this fantastic Totoro sleeping bag bed and make those Miyazaki movie lovin' dreams come true.

What an adorable way to catch some zzzzzzzz's!

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It's one thing to keep it real when your child asks you how they did in their school play, but giving them a scathingly bad review might just scar them for life.

Raise an aspiring stage actor, not an actor-turned-janitor- don't invite this critic to your school plays!

--via Stuff I Stole From The Internet

Even as a child, Annisa, now 32, liked to keep her records straight. She had some open accounts with the Tooth Fairy and wanted to close them. So Annisa wrote a series of increasingly aggressive letters to her.

The Tooth Fairy was going to pay. One way or another.

Nice wings you got there. It would be a pity if anything bad happened to them.

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Some people are born cat lovers, some people are not. This 4-month-old baby, as you can guess by his facial reaction when his mom says "meow," is definitely not a cat person!

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I see a bed; my daughters see a pirate ship. I love their capacity to find adventures in the ordinary. Tim Macpherson explored the active imaginations of children doing extraordinary things inside their own homes.

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Every day is a bad day in a nursery housing both a baby Xenomorph and a little tiny Predator-in-training.

Artist Edwin David shows us where the whole Aliens Vs. Predator conflict originated- it all started over a lollipop!

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One good thing about dressing up your youngster like an Ewok for Halloween is they look cuter without makeup or a mask.

If the real Ewoks were this cute the Empire wouldn't have wanted to harm a hair on their adorable little heads!

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CNN has a great little interview with Holly Hirshberg, founder of The Dinner Garden.  The Dinner Garden is a non-profit organization that is encouraging Americans to grow their own veggies.

After realizing how much nutritious food she was able to grow, Hirshberg began collecting seeds from her garden and sharing them with others.

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These little artists have all the style of the famous creators they are dressed as, even if their art might not be quite as valuable -yet.

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