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Potty training is often considered an unpleasant task facing parents, but under current social norms, it has to be done. And like most bathroom activities, it’s usually a private event. One mother of twins in Utah, though, took her training public, placing her daughters on potty training toilets — you know, the plastic seats with a little toilet lid — at a public restaurant’s table. KSL-TV reports Kimberly Decker, who was in the restaurant at the time, snapped a photo of this disturbing scene and posted it on Facebook.

<p>STAMFORD, Connecticut (AP) --A 2-year-old model and actor who cut his head at a playground is seeking unspecified lost wages and other compensation from the city.</p> <p>Konrad Mader of Greenwich was running toward a treehouse at a playground November 4 when he crashed into a railing, according to a claim filed last week by his mother and reported Friday by The Advocate of Stamford. The blond toddler received several stitches.</p>

Truck tows minivan with baby left alone inside WATERVILLE (AP) — The city has suspended its contract with a towing company that towed an illegally parked minivan in which a 13-month-old baby had been left alone inside. The suspension Wednesday came as police were reviewing an incident the evening before in which a driver for Interstate Towing towed a Dodge Caravan from a fire lane at Elm Plaza. Police withheld the name of the baby's mother, who was driving the van. She told police she had gone into a bookstore to buy a magazine and left the child in the...