A mother in Polk County, Florida, may lose custody of her 7-year-old son Justin, who weighs a staggering 254 lb. ( 115 kg)!

Joyce Painter’s seven year old son, Justin, weighs 254 pounds. She says the Department of Social Services is threatening to remove him from her home if he doesn’t lose weight.

Painter says she first noticed her son’s weight gain when he was three, "He played T-ball and soccer, did things just like every other kid, but he was gaining weight." Painter says she’s taken Justin to doctor after doctor over the past four years, but nobody has been able to pinpoint the cause of his rapid growth. She’s been told it could be genetic, it could be hormonal or it could be his diet. Painter says she’s regulated Justin’s meals for a while now, "I’ve got him on three meals a day. A meat and two vegetables, that’s it. There’s no snacking, I removed all the chips and cookies. I quit buying it." Despite those efforts, Painter says her son continues to gain weight.

Jaylan Amor is only two years old, but is already surfing the waves outside of Brisbane, Australia and has secured multiple endorsements from surf shops.

To catch a wave, his dad paddles him out to sea, then the two year old hops and rides the waves back into shore. Mr Amor isn’t worried if Jaylan falls, as the tike just swims back to his board and waits for daddy to help him back up. Link [news.com.au] via DoubleViking.

Shi Yulan from Shanghai is now the youngest TV chef in China (and probably the world). She’s only nine years old!

Shi has been working in the kitchen at home for almost as long as she has been able to walk.

She said: "At two-years-old, I already helped my mom by washing bowls in the kitchen and I started to cook for the family for fun from the age of six."

Shi hosts a cooking show for a local TV station and in her spare time she is writing a book recalling her cooking experiences and many of her cooking recipes.

And she’s writing a recipe book too! Link - via Spluch

Source All above: neatorama.com

If you have kids, you’re probably tired of buying them new shoes every six months. With Inchworm Shoes, your days of shoehorns and screaming kids in the store may be cut in half. These relatively inexpensive shoes, starting at $19, actually expand one full size in half-size increments as your child grows. via Funniest Gadgets

Eight-year-old math whiz Parker Garrison realized that a new exhibit at Discovery Place didn’t quite add up:

When the 8-year-old math whiz at Charlotte Christian visited the "Jelly Belly Presents Candy Unwrapped" display, he accepted the challenge: Use equations to calculate how many jelly beans were in a pyramid and other containers.

His mother, Donna, didn’t want to wait while he tried all the formulas. So she copied the numbers he needed, and he took the problems home. That’s when he realized something was wrong. …

The equation mistakenly called for dividing the correct answer in half. Parker’s father, Jim, called Discovery Place. After the museum figured out who should handle the call, Dean Briere, a shocked vice president, decided to investigate.

An hour later, Briere called back. The exhibit had traveled to eight cities in four years. "And no one found this mistake — I just couldn’t believe it," Briere said.

8 year old Sreelakshmi Suresh designs and manages the website for her school in Kerala, India. According to the school’s site:“She is the ‘Youngest Web Designer Girl of the World’. She has got 18 International Awards for Best Web Designing and Presentation.”

Her short biography also includes a list of the 18 awards she has won. Even if there is a younger webmaster out there, her achievements are still impressive. Link

Found at Factum - if anyone know the story behind this, please let us know!

Found at New York Nerd - via Hemmy

Don’t let my shoe-aholic wife see this: a cute car-shaped kid’s shoes, on display at the China International Clothing and Acessories Fair in Beijing. Link

Shi Yulan from Shanghai is now the youngest TV chef in China (and probably the world). She’s only nine years old!

Shi has been working in the kitchen at home for almost as long as she has been able to walk.

She said: "At two-years-old, I already helped my mom by washing bowls in the kitchen and I started to cook for the family for fun from the age of six."

Shi hosts a cooking show for a local TV station and in her spare time she is writing a book recalling her cooking experiences and many of her cooking recipes.

And she’s writing a recipe book too! Link - via Spluch

Source All above: neatorama.com

If you have kids, you’re probably tired of buying them new shoes every six months. With Inchworm Shoes, your days of shoehorns and screaming kids in the store may be cut in half. These relatively inexpensive shoes, starting at $19, actually expand one full size in half-size increments as your child grows. via Funniest Gadgets

Eight-year-old math whiz Parker Garrison realized that a new exhibit at Discovery Place didn’t quite add up:

When the 8-year-old math whiz at Charlotte Christian visited the "Jelly Belly Presents Candy Unwrapped" display, he accepted the challenge: Use equations to calculate how many jelly beans were in a pyramid and other containers.

His mother, Donna, didn’t want to wait while he tried all the formulas. So she copied the numbers he needed, and he took the problems home. That’s when he realized something was wrong. …

The equation mistakenly called for dividing the correct answer in half. Parker’s father, Jim, called Discovery Place. After the museum figured out who should handle the call, Dean Briere, a shocked vice president, decided to investigate.

An hour later, Briere called back. The exhibit had traveled to eight cities in four years. "And no one found this mistake — I just couldn’t believe it," Briere said.

8 year old Sreelakshmi Suresh designs and manages the website for her school in Kerala, India. According to the school’s site:“She is the ‘Youngest Web Designer Girl of the World’. She has got 18 International Awards for Best Web Designing and Presentation.”

Her short biography also includes a list of the 18 awards she has won. Even if there is a younger webmaster out there, her achievements are still impressive. Link

Found at Factum - if anyone know the story behind this, please let us know!

Found at New York Nerd - via Hemmy

Don’t let my shoe-aholic wife see this: a cute car-shaped kid’s shoes, on display at the China International Clothing and Acessories Fair in Beijing. Link

Quinn Sullivan, 8-Year-Old Guitar Prodigy.

Meet Quinn Sullivan, an 8-year-old guitar prodigy, who recently performed with legendary bluesman Buddy Guy:

"You had to have been there," he said. "He had the chops, and he had the stage presence and a great ear, too. Buddy Guy said to him, ‘Man, you are something.’ Then, Buddy just stood back and let him play. That was quite a compliment considering Eric Clapton said Buddy Guy is the best guitar player alive."

Link

Here’s Quinn playing guitar on the Ellen Degeneres show (he was 6 years old at the time), playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps (7 y.o.)

More young guitar prodigies at the Strat-O-Blogster Guitar Blog - Thanks JP!

How better to celebrate a new life than to thrust your baby into the arms of a 400 lb sumo wrestler then force him or her to cry? On April 28th in Japan, 84 babies born in 2006 were subjected to the Baby Crying Contest.

The event was supposed to bring good health and growth, although there’s no word on what the loudest baby won. Link via Random Citations

Lincoln and Byron Ryman are identical twins, although it might be a couple years before anyone has difficulty telling them apart. The twins were born 11 weeks premature, and doctors thought that Lincoln (the smaller of the two, at just over 1lb) wouldn’t survive after they noticed he had stopped growing early in the pregnancy.

Amazingly, both have now started gaining weight and are expected to remain healthy. Link [Daily Mail] via Unique Daily

Howard "Bubba" Ludwig is not just any 10-month-old baby boy. He can’t walk yet, but he has a license to buy, own, and carry firearms!

As a FOID cardholder, baby Bubba can own a firearm and ammunition in Illinois. He can also legally transport an unloaded weapon — though he can’t walk yet, so that’s not an issue.

The plastic card has a picture of a toothless, grinning Bubba in the upper right corner. It includes his name, address and date of birth.

The FOID card lists his height (2 feet, 3 inches), and his weight (20 pounds).

His signature is superimposed at the bottom of the card. Bubba can’t sign his name, so I simply placed a pen in his hand. He made the scribble.

The story gets funnier: turns out the reason Bubba got the card was because his grandpa bought him a 12-gauge Beretta.

Meet the executive team of a new Silicon Valley startup Elementeo, headed by its founder and CEO Anshul Samar. Oh, did we mention that he’s just 13 years old?

The company is all about making learning chemistry fun:

Samar argues that textbooks are boring and kids would rather spend their time battling enemies, blowing things up with bombs, and yes, even giving their opponents lead poisoning. So he created a fantasy role playing game that combines the rapturous teenage joys of competition and carnage with the exciting properties of the periodic table of chemical elements.

Here’s how the game works: You command an army of chemical elements, compounds and catalysts — represented within a 66-card deck (the fire and brimstone card at left is for “Sulfur,” for example). Your opponent has his own deck with the same number of cards. Your goal is to battle your competitor and reduce his IQ down to zero. Pit your oxygen card against your opponent’s iron card, for example, and you learn that you create rust. Score one for oxygen. Kind of like rock-paper-scissors, but with chemicals, dice and 66 impressively illustrated cards featuring monster-themed caricatures of chemicals.