Parenting

Missing: Stuffed pink leopard

By adamg - 1/27/12 - 7:21 am

MissingA local parent is frantically searching for his daughter's Lisa Leopard, stolen out of the family mini-van last night at the Rite-Aid near Davis Square:

She has had her since she was 3 years old. This is the go-to comfort toy. No, this is her best friend. This is the thing she brought to EVERY SINGLE "show and tell" day at school for a year.

This is her Hobbes. In fact, when I introduced her to Calvin and Hobbes last year, it was as if she had written the comics in a previous life.

So as you can imagine, I have spent the last several hours in the rain inspecting every square inch within a five block radius of the crime scene. I have been trying to get into the heads of whatever stoner kids found an unlocked door, grabbed the first thing they saw, and looked inside, and realized that there was nothing worth stealing. I have gone into every trash can and made friends with the T station workers. I even chatted up a few of the downtrodden folks at the bottle redemption center.

Driveway rage: Police say man tired of parents stopping in front of his driveway to pick up kids threatened one with a rifle

By adamg - 1/26/12 - 4:15 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Greenwood Street resident who'd allegedly finally snapped at all the parents who stop in front of his driveway to pick up kids at the school across the street.

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Oh, H-E-double-hockey-sticks

By adamg - 1/23/12 - 1:00 pm

Serious pearl clutching going on in Boston media circles today. In the Globe, one mother frets about her kids using the word "butt." In the Boston Business Journal, one father frets that his sons are now going to exclaim "suck" all the time now that they heard Tom Brady use the verb in his post-game interview:

Come on, Tom. You're better than that. For the rest of the evening my boys were going on about how Tom Brady sucked today. A bit disappointing, considering how Brady is usually a stellar role model and manages to set a great example and say all the right things. I guess I'll give him a pass on this one, surely he was caught up in the moment and was disappointed in his less than great game.

Go get 'em in the Super Bowl Tom, but remember it's not all about you.

H/t Amy Derjue for reading the Globe op-ed pages so I don't have to.

Sometimes, cuteness takes awhile to be appreciated

By adamg - 1/19/12 - 3:01 pm

Channel 5 tracks down the Andover father whose video of his daughter saying "bye!" to people going down a Copley Place escalator became an Internet sensation this week - two years after he posted it.

Court blocks sterilization of mentally ill pregnant woman, but says family has right to make case to force an abortion

By adamg - 1/17/12 - 6:17 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today overturned a lower-court judge who had ordered a woman with severe mental problems to be sterilized as part of an abortion the judge had agreed with her family to make her have over her objections.

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Roxbury 5-year-old critical after allegedly drunk driver plows car into telephone pole

By adamg - 1/14/12 - 11:22 am

In Brookline overnight, Wicked Local Brookline reports: The kid was in the car with his mother's boyfriend.

Shakeup at New England Conservatory over hiring of a sex offender as youth videographer

By adamg - 1/13/12 - 6:42 am

Associated Press reports on the sudden departure of the conductor of the school's Youth Philharmonic after the school learned who he'd hired to video performances. Channel 4 also reports.

Dunkin' Donuts hooks 'em young

By adamg - 12/3/11 - 4:50 pm

With what they could call their Munchkins for munchkins program.