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6-month girl abandoned in NY taxi

By Modern Mom Staff
Girl found in taxi Someone abandoned a 6-month-old girl in the backseat of a cab yesterday in New York City.

"He jumped out and went to a public phone," driver Klever Sailema tells the New York Post. "I didn't see him again."

She has been placed in foster care while investigators search for her relativs.

February 29, 2008

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Kindergartner suspended for Mohawk haircut

By Modern Mom Staff

mohawkThe AP reported that an Ohio kindergarten student was suspended because of a mohawk haircut.

Michelle Barile, the mother of 6-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the school handbook prohibits the haircut, and refuses to change his 'do and will change schools.

Mom's are discussing this topic on our Message Boards: "I think it's ridiculous to make such a big deal out of a haircut. Seems to me that the freak out is a bigger distraction than the haircut itself" - fizobunny

Would you change your child's haircut to keep him in school?

 

February 28, 2008

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Third Grade Students Searched for Missing $5

By Modern Mom Staff

Fox News reports that third-grade students at a Kentucky school were searched when an envelope with $5 in it went missing. A group of teachers had the students line up with their shoes and socks off and were patted down. The search turned up nothing but has angered many parents.

"The way they treat our students is ridiculous," said Zlatko Skuljan, the father of a 9-year-old girl in the class.

 

February 27, 2008

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Ryan Seacrest Gets Personal with Jessica Alba

By Lolita Carrico

On the red carpet last night, Ryan Seacrest got a little too personal by asking mom-to-be Jessica Alba about her plans to breast feed:

 

 

Jessica handled it well, but what do you think? Did Ryan cross the line?

 

February 25, 2008

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