Nothing like a beer ... for your toddler

Arizona mom puts beer in her kid's sippy cup, and admits it

So you're at the local pizza place with games and stuff where kids run amuck and parents watch from the sidelines, but when one of the kids shows an interest in your pitcher of beer rather than the ball pit, you decide to make him a bigger part of the adult action by slipping the cute little bugger a little in his sippy cup and waiting for him to become the life of the party. Right? Right??

No. Not right. Not right, but it did happen in Arizona's capitol city, and the 36-year-old Mean Mom admitted that it wasn't a mistake. She put beer in her 2-year-old's sippy cup on purpose.

Seems that she couldn't resist the way her sweet little bundle of cuteness "kept reaching" for the pitcher of beer at the table, so she decided to indulge him with a little. She was hoping a little reverse psychology would work it's magic and he would never, ever, ever want to drink beer again.

Just like her.

Well, some fellow diners, who probably had kids too, decided that was not something they read in their parenting books and called the Po-Po — after the buzzed boy fell out of his high chair. Yikes.

The boy was taken to a local hospital and he is OK. The MM was taken to the local jail.

If this is what this MM lets her toddler do in public, I shudder to think what she lets him do behind closed doors.

Read a version of the news story on my(faux)foxphoenix.com by clicking the link below.

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Once an abuser always an abuser

This one was a little too close for comfort. Not only did it happen in my hometown, but they took the toddler to the medical center that is attached to the College of Medicine where I work. And, she is the same age as my precious little boy.

I don't know, but for some reason when I read a story that I knew took place really close to me — like that time the police helicopter was circling my neighborhood and the spotlight shined right on my yard and the next day I found out that an armed robber hit the smoke shop on Grant and was loose in the hood — it increases my heartrate and makes my bones shake.

Anyway, this mother of five. Ahem, this 23-year-old mother of five, was arrested on suspicion of abusing her children. Her 21-month-old child was rushed to the hospital after a 911 call that reported "seizure-like activity." Her 3-year-old was taken in, too. Supposedly, the mother bit and hit both children on a regular basis.

Wow.

Sadly, the little girl died, and initial reports stated she was malnourished and hit. One report stated that she had a, "non-existent blood-sugar level."

Maybe if the 2010 case against this mean mom, the one that acquitted her of abusing her then-4-year-old daughter had gone differently, this little girl would have lived.

I guess we'll never know.

A link to the story appears below.

Two times too many