In case you missed it, Beyonce had her baby. Unless you have been hiding in seclusion with no access to any form of media or public contact, this is not news.

JayZ and Beyonce's little princess is named Blue Ivy Carter. The current theory is that Blue is after JayZ's album Blueprint and Ivy is a riff on the Roman numerals for four (IV), the name of Beyonce's current album and the couple's favourite number. Personally, I hate the use of everyday words as first names. Poor little Blue will have to live with the 'why so Blue?' jokes for the rest of her life. But I guess she can retaliate with, "an apple a day" joke to you-know-who.

When I first heard that Disney was rebooting The Muppets, I didn't really give it a second thought. They were funny when I was kid, but the decades-old movies are a bit painful to watch these days and their goody-two-shoe optimism has had its day.

But then the trailers and the spoofs came out and it felt like the Muppets were in on the joke. Could this be a reboot of characters from my childhood without all the cynicism and sexed-up characters that plague all the other comebacks from my youth?

Despite what the movies tell you, sometimes feeling like a mom doesn't come with the pink lines on the stick or the moment the baby is handed to you.

Sometimes it takes a little longer to understand that this parenthood thing is permanent and so real that you can almost see the line going from your heart to their little body. For every person that moment when the realization hits home is different.

What was that moment for you?

A study released last week proves what many had suspected: when a man becomes a father his testosterone drops - substantially.

The researchers measured testosterone levels in 624 men when their levels were high and what they found is that five years after parenthood the levels dropped as much as 34% in the men. The steepest drops were in the men who spent the most time caring for and hanging out with their kids. 

Beyonce has definitely met her match in vlogger Nineteen Percent. The vlogger (video+blogger) breaks down Beyonce's newest song Run the World (Girls) refuting the message by highlighting the state of women's rights across the world and she does it with sarcasm and wit.

It is five minutes worth watching. She even calls out Beyonce's husband Jay-Z.

My 5-year-old daughter is dancing to the music and cheering on the singer, Billy Kelly. The kid next to her in a Che Guevera T-shirt with the ironic saying: "I don't even know who this is", is checking out her bag of chips. His dad stands nearby in a plaid shirt and hornrims swaying along - the stereotype of hipster dadness.

This is the kindie music scene at Toronto's Kindiefest (billed as Coachella for kids!).  Dan Zanes and They Might Be Giants may be the first and best-known kindie band, but parents who don't want to trade in their Coachella passes for Wiggles music are sustaining it.

I know we try hard not to judge other parents (out loud); every parent has their challenges and their strengths. None of us are perfect and often when we judge others it is because we perceive similar weaknesses in ourselves.

And then there are celebrity parents. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but so often it feels like they have sold out their kids for their own gains. Billy Ray Cyrus pretty much admitted as much.

It seems that Canadian youngsters have a way with YouTube; two more tweens have hit it big thanks to a combination of musical talent and an Internet boost.

Heather Russell, a 10-year-old from Toronto, was just signed by Simon Cowell. The soulful singer writes her own music and sings with a pedigree beyond her years. Cowell flew her to London to sign a deal after she gained a following on YouTube.

Maria Aragon, also 10, from Winnipeg, got recognition from Lady Gaga herself, after posting a video of her singing Born This Way, on - you guessed it - YouTube. After the video got millions of hits, Aragon was a guest on the Ellen show.

Modern pop music is more illusion than reality. Sometimes it is hard to know when the artifice ends and the real person begins. I'm confused and I'm not sure how much our kids truly understand the extent to which pop stars are manufactured for their enjoyment (and by enjoyment, I mean consumption).

But the Japanese popstar Hatsune Miku is beyond even what the most savvy of marketers could pull off. She is a completely artificial 3-D hologram created by Crypton Future Media. You can purchase this singing avatar and write songs for her to perform. But what is amazing is that Miku has done "live" shows with live musicians in the background and thousands of fans singing along to her hits. She is a bonafide rock star in Japan.

Can someone explain to me why my daughter loves Justin Bieber?

Put aside his talent, or lack of, for a minute. Why does a four-year-old girl love Justin Bieber so much that she yells at the top of her lungs every time she sees or hears him: “I LOVE JUSTIN BIEBER!!”

Is there some kind of secret message in his songs or his mousey brown locks that only four-year-old girls can decipher? (A similar message may be contained in Cinderella’s skirt, but I digress.)