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If you have a toddler, you know that messiness comes with the territory, so here are some messy links I love:

Ways to keep the "carbage" in check. — Lil Sugar

Have trouble getting motivated to clean? Set the timer. — Rookie Moms

Darn you, Crayola. — Momversation

Yeah, messiness doesn't stop at the toddler years. — Parent Dish

Why a messy house makes for a happy family. — Babble

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Pop quiz.

Your nanny takes your kid for a haircut. You didn't ask her to and you liked your kid's hair the way it was. What do you do?

a. You nicely ask her not to do it again.

b. You go ballistic on her.

c. You give her a look that you hope she understands to mean please don't do it again.

Photo from Planet Awesome Kids

Photo from Planet Awesome Kids

Being called the Sartorialist for kids, Planet Awesome Kids is celebrating the best kid street style in New York City and around the planet.

Check it out.

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My two-year-old daughter has tons of books and she loves to "read." Here's my problem. We have books that are specific to various holidays—Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more. She grows to love these books and wants to read them "off-season."

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I love anything green—and useful—like this valentine recycling tip from Heather over at Parent Hacks.

"Turn your child's valentines into a placement by arranging them between two sheets of clear contact paper. My mom did this with mine when I was a kid—and bow my son is eating off my old valentines from the eighties!"

Will you save the valentines your child receives? What will you do with them?

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A rickshaw driver in China chained his two-year-old to a lamp post outside a shopping mall so he could pick up customers. Someone took a photo of the boy (you can see at ABC News), which was published in newspapers and on the web. Many people were outraged. Here's the dad's side of the story.

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This Week's Confession:

I have a gut feeling that the educator in my child's daycare is not telling the truth when I ask questions like: How much did my child eat? How much did he sleep? How long did he cry for?...I hate when people try to protect my feelings by lying to me. Or maybe they try to protect their business...

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If you want to celebrate Black History Month with your toddler, here are some inspirational, age-appropriate books you can read together, as recommended by Ann Nevin, Ph.D.

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Vaccines. Autism. The two always seem to go hand in hand. In newspapers. In conversations. On talk shows. People in the "pro-vaccine" camp seem to think that the only reason parents have for not vaccinating their children (or choosing just a few) is because they're afraid that vaccines cause autism. The thinking seems to go "if we could just convince non-vaccinators that vaccines don't cause autism, then everyone would vaccinate."

I'm not so sure that's true.

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There are so many new treatments — some aggressive, some feasible, some downright wacky — for autistic children each year. But when it comes to your child, how far are you willing to go?

This week in Special Needs Living, CafeMom aurorabunny, mom to 3-year old Brody, who has autism, talks about ASD therapies she's encountered, tried, and steered clear from over the past few years and how she's found a way to make choices about the array of therapies for her son.