My daughter likes to pretend that she is an all-power bad ass that can fend off monsters and other imaginary foes. She likes it when I make up stories where she's the main character, and conquers nefarious pink and green giants who try to break into her house. Even better, is when she pretends I'm the monsters, and I get to spend 30 minutes trying to "break in" to her room, while she shouts at me to "GO AWAY, MISTER!"

This toddler, however, has a far more direct approach when it comes to keeping monsters out of her house -- and a very solid rationale for why her course of action would be appropriate.

It's one of the funniest things I've seen in a good long while.

[Neatorama]

If you're the parent of a child who has fears, you may feel like you're going to be searching for the Boogieman all the way through high school.

Now that Halloween is almost here, monsters and goblins are lurking everywhere. As a parent, what should you do? Do you spray "monster spray" in the closet? Put a light under the bed?

How about learn to confront the monster?

One expert shies away from "monster traps" and "monster sprays," saying it makes it seem like the parent also believes in monsters. Instead, you can teach your child to deal with the scary things using her imagination.

For example, your child could use an imaginary ray gun to shrink the monster and make it run away. Or, you could incorporate the scary object, such as a spider, into a fairy tale so that the child can see the character overcoming her fears.

Whatever you do, don't just dismiss the child's fears. Although we may think monsters are silly and make-believe, the child may not.

Now if only they could make a fairy tale so that I could get over my fear of bridges, I'd be set!

We're all talking about the pregnant mother-of-a-Hummer (which sounds a bit like an expletive). Bonnie says: "the pregnant monster was a bit creepy for me." For me too: I was a little horrified, Everett was saying, "how are those monsters breaking the city?" and I was wondering, what the heck is this commercial for?

The commercial, we discovered, was for the H3 Hummer, "a little monster," as the tagline reads. As it drove off, I realized that the Hummer was, indeed, the child of the gigantic lizard monster and the big robot. The ones who break the city. It's both creepy and un-self-consciously destructive. I suppose that's the undercurrent of the Hummer. In a way, it is breaking the city. Ewww.