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I was browsing around for an interesting article to share with you all, and I actually found a couple of interesting ones.

First, from the Associated Press: France bans broadcast of TV shows for babies. 

There are two cable channels aimed just for babies 24/7 and France’s minister for culture & communication called them “a danger” to a child’s development.  Now, shows aimed at children 3 years and under are completely banned!  Also, if any foreign shows air on French cable channels there must now be a warning message: “Watching television can slow the development of children under 3, even when it involves channels aimed specifically at them.”

This warning massage is probably to help prevent parents from simply changing channels around after one “baby show” is finished.  They hopefully just won’t ignore the message.  You have to read the entire article here.

I get why there needs to be laws against TV because of lazy parents who’s kids’ are actually raised by TV, but I do think that “just for babies” type television channels mean no harm.  It is up to parents to control how much television their baby will watch. 

Second, if you happen to be under 30 (but pretty close) and you stress about how your clock is ticking and you need to have all you babies ASAP…chill out and read this article from FoxNews.com:  Baby born to 61-year-old surrogate mother.

Yes, that’s not a typo….61!  This wonderful grannie carried her daughter & son-in-law’s child for 9 months because she has no uterus. 

Of course, having kids at such a young age is not recommended, but what I’m saying is: ladies, you still have time.

Does anyone happen to know the age of the oldest surrogate mother in America?