They tried — and tried and tried — to conceive. No success.

They turned to adoption. Eventually, they were on the verge of adopting a baby from China when Handford found out she was pregnant.

Well, buddy, protein makes up about 20 percent of a healthy body. The 7-year-old then asks the obvious follow-up question: “How, Mom?”

The annual dance is now equated less with wholesomeness and more with the obscene.

How could a parent not read what followed?

“A suspicious man has been found watching children in local parks, including Rose Park. ... For now please be on the lookout, call the police if needed, and be extra extra safe,” said the message posted in a Georgetown parenting e-mail exchange.

Those fantasies do not include airports.

The logistics and cost of air travel can be the worst part of a family trip. And, this summer, traveling with children is looking to be even more expensive and hassle-filled.

The new law requires schools to establish policies regarding the use and availability of epinephrine, an emergency treatment for allergic reactions.

This is a question I didn’t think much of until about six years ago, when I awaited a sonogram technician’s explanation of what she was tracking on a blurry screen. Girl or boy? It was suddenly a very big question.

Almost a quarter.

That’s up from 9 percent a decade ago, according to a study in the June 2012 issue of Pediatrics, published online today.

Before the evidence of his child pornography collection and possible abuse surfaced and Toth escaped, becoming one of the FBI’s Most Wanted fugitives, he “worked where he had access to kids, ingratiated himself with families and got extended alone time with their children, sometimes as a tutor. Then he allegedly exploited children and took pictures of them for gratification,” Allison Klein reported.

Or, maybe, ‘Told You So.”

Post readers may recall the story of Zoe Rosso, a preschooler who was suspended from her Arlington school in December of 2010 after she had too many potty accidents.

“That must be the most fun job.”

True confession time. It is.

I learn something new every day. (Did you know more tornadoes strike the United States than any other nation on Earth?)