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• Is Candy Medicine the New Candy Cigarette?

  Remember candy cigarettes? So much fun pretending to be so bad? I haven't seen them on store shelves for years, so I've got to assume marketers saw the danger of hooking kids with candy. But I wonder: is the new trend toward diguising kids medicines as gummy candies really any better? Read More... Posted Jun 03 2009, 11:06 AM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: food, medicine, overdose, sick kids, candy, fiber, candy medicine, Jeanne Sager, vitamins for kids, gummy medicines, toxic level, candy cigarette

• One School, 19 Sets of Twins

  They're seeing double at Armstrong Elementary School in Garland, Texas. And double. And double. The small Texas school has just five hundred thirty-nine students - and thirty-eight of them are twins. There are nine sets in the second grade alone. Read More... Posted Jun 03 2009, 10:27 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, twins, school, multiples, fertility treatments, Jeanne Sager, fertility drugs, Octomom, seeing double, twin pregnancies

• Got a Sick Child? Go Online

  When I first read that more parents are going online after their kids get sick, I had thoughts of hundreds of graduates of Google University picking fights with the med. school grads trying to take care of their kids.  Good news: that's not what this story is about. Read More... Posted Jun 02 2009, 03:31 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: health, Google, sick kids, healthcare, food allergies, Jeanne Sager, cystic fibrosis, online support, support groups

• What's the Difference Between a Palestinian Kid and an Israeli One?

  If you're looking for some trick answer here, I'm sorry to disappoint. A simple but brilliant advertising campaign about tolerance in the Middle East sporting a nearly identical set of kids actually depicts two kids who share no blood. They've never even met. Read More... Posted Jun 02 2009, 12:26 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: racism, politics, Israel, pictures, photos, middle east, Jeanne Sager, Palestine, children are our future

• They Say: Staying Together for the Kids? Don't

  How many times have you heard someone in marital distress say they're just trying to make it through for the kids? Might want to give them a hug next time and tell them they shouldn't worry about it.  A new study has found what plenty of kids of bitter, bickering parents already knew: staying together for the kids doesn't work.  Read More... Posted Jun 02 2009, 11:01 AM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: teens, divorce, marriage, study, relationships, Jeanne Sager, they say, cornell, family unit, stepparents

• Who's the Little Kid Here?

  Let me just say I love summer festivals. But I can't stand the people who man booths at said summer festivals.  They need to get a grip on BOUNDARIES. Read More... Posted Jun 02 2009, 10:29 AM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: behavior, summer fun, summer, Jeanne Sager, summer festivals, inappropriate adults, festivals, disappointing kids

• Melissa Joan Hart Drops the Ball on Being a Role Model

  So Melissa Joan Hart packed on the pounds during her pregnancy. That makes her different from any other pregnant woman in America, how? The former Sabrina the Teenage Witch star showed off her bikini-worthy bod in People last week, but it was her words that cut deep into the psyches of moms everywhere. Read More... Posted Jun 01 2009, 02:26 PM by JeanneSager with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, newborn, baby, pregnant, weight loss, melissa joan hart, post-partum, weight gain, post partum, Jeanne Sager, people, new mothers, pregnancy weight, celebrity pregnancies

• Adoption After Having Biological Kids: What's the Big Deal?

  I got a bit ferklempt watching the recent New York Times video of a May Lee Wong, a NYC principal who just adopted a little girl from Ethiopia after giving birth to three boys. Maybe it was the fact that the little girl, Mebrat, was thought to be three-years-old when she came to the Wong family but was, in fact, a malnourished six-year-old.  More likely? The fact that a family has adopted after having children "of their own." Read More... Posted Jun 01 2009, 12:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, biological children, stepchildren, Jeanne Sager, adopted children, mixed families, adoptive families

• Adult Music For Little Kids: Get Over It

  When we get in the car, my daughter puts in her musical requests. "The Rolling Stones, please!" Yes, she's three (almost four), and she loves her some Mick and Keith.  The quota of "adult" music to kiddie tunes in her section of my iPod is an almost two to one ratio. Just because they're kids doesn't mean they have to listen to inane bouncing around nonsense, right? Right? Read More... Posted Jun 01 2009, 11:26 AM by JeanneSager with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: music, Mick Jagger, pills, Jeanne Sager, rolling stones, influence, role model, lady gaga

• WTF: KKK Selling Kids T-Shirts

  I'm vacillating between speechless and spitting with venom. How else do you respond to news that the Ku Klux Klan is selling t-shirts for kids?  T-shirts at a Website that actually trumpets itself as a go-to source for "Christian" purchases.   Read More... Posted Jun 01 2009, 10:03 AM by JeanneSager with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: racism, politics, shopping, t-shirts, bigotry, terrorism, hate, Jeanne Sager, christian, KKK, learned traits, inherent traits, Internet stores

• Gay Boy Crowned Prom Queen

  He's a boy, and he's gay, but Sergio Garcia isn't ashamed to tell people he's a queen. Prom queen that is.  Describing himself as "flamboyant," openly gay Garcia was crowned the queen of his Los Angeles high school's prom this week after deciding he could better identify with being a queen than a king, and campaigning hard for the part. Read More... Posted May 30 2009, 11:08 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: education, homosexuality, school, California, diversity, gay teens, prom, Jeanne Sager, Proposition 8, prop 8, LGBT teens, prom queen

• Weird Holiday Alert: My Bucket's Got a Hole in it Day

  There are certain things every child needs to know. Chief among them: at least one song that will drive their parents absolutely bonkers (or their grandparents if you prefer).  And considering today is "My Bucket's Got a Hole In It Day," we're happy to oblige. Read More... Posted May 30 2009, 09:32 AM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: music, holidays, summer, songs, Jeanne Sager, singing, weird holidays, campfire songs

• How You Can Keep Kids Breathing

  It's a disease that takes their breath away, but you can give it back. Kids born with cystic fibrosis fight daily against the excessive mucus production that makes breathing a struggle. Their projected life expectancy is around thirty-seven years old.  But the Breathe 4 Tomorrow Foundation doesn't hit you over the head with their simple video that's starting to generate funds for the small Washington-based non-profit. Read More... Posted May 29 2009, 04:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: charity, fundraising, sick kids, Jeanne Sager, cystic fibrosis, Breathe 4 Tomorrow, birth defect

• They Say: Just Get the Epidural Already

  Oh no they didn't!  A bunch of Swedish medical researchers have come out with a study that calls BS on the natural birth community. Basically, they say, get the epidural. Read More... Posted May 29 2009, 02:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, pregnant, labor and delivery, delivery, epidural, natural childbirth, Jeanne Sager, they say, pre-natal

• Get Your Stock Tips from These Kids

  You might still be content to track the market with CNBC and the Wall Street Journal, but I've got a lead on investing in Wisconsin. A classroom of mini traders in Neenah, Wis. to be exact. Read More... Posted May 29 2009, 11:27 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: education, schools, economy, Jeanne Sager, stock market, economic crisis, stocks

• Disney Princesses Get Nasty

  There's no major love lost between me and the Disney princesses, but I've never outright hated them. After all, my kid likes that Belle reads just as much as she thinks that yellow gown is the cat's meow. Still, I never expected to get all mama bear on behalf of someone messing with princesskind. Maybe it's just that the following images would scare the bejesus out of half the four-year-olds I know (yes, the other four-year-olds would think they're wicked - in a GOOD way). Read More... Posted May 29 2009, 10:01 AM by JeanneSager with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: ariel, disney, princesses, disney princesses, The Little Mermaid, Jeanne Sager, lion king

• Guy Blames - Who Else - Mom for Slashing Tires

  Apparently the guy caught slashing tires on almost fifty cars in Boulder, Colo. had never read Philip Larkin.  He blamed it all on Mom. Oh, and the braces she made him get when he was little. And - no surprise here - radiation. Read More... Posted May 28 2009, 02:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Motherhood, bad parents, therapy, fatherhood, blame, Bad Parent, Jeanne Sager, blame game

• Vote on Jon and Kate's Divorce Goes Too Far

  With the reports of Jon and Kate Plus 8 and their potential demise coming fast and furious, I wasn't surprised to find a poll over at Extra's Website about whether or not the Gosselins should just call it quits.  Not surprised, but a little digusted. Sure, it's just an informal poll. But it seems to fall dangerously close to laying bets. Read More... Posted May 28 2009, 12:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: divorce, exploitation, celebrity parents, TLC, Jeanne Sager, jon and kate plus 8, kate gosselin, jon gosselin, jon and kate plus eight, jon & kate plus 8

• Kelly Ripa Beats Obamas for Your Family Vacation

  I've got a bone to pick with American families.  Or at least those signing up for nitwit surveys. Because apparently you would rather spend your vacation with a talk show host than the leader of the free world. Read More... Posted May 28 2009, 11:01 AM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: vacation, barack obama, Republican, summer, michelle obama, beach, democrat, liberal, Jeanne Sager, barbecue, kelly ripa, obamas, sasha and malia, Regis and Kelly

• Hint: We Really Might Know Our Kids Better Than You

  The best part of the latest Non-Breeder column on Babble? The author realizes she was being a bit of a tool.  Not that all "non breeders" are bad people. Far from it. But the expectation that they know better than a parent does how to raise their kids runs high among the kid-free crowd. Read More... Posted May 27 2009, 04:04 PM by JeanneSager with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, friendship, babble talk, notes from a non breeder, friends, new parents, Jeanne Sager, child-free, non breeder

• Who Really Cares if They Have Perfect Attendance?

  A perfect game only takes nine innings (seven in high school). But perfect attendance takes two thousand three hundred forty days. That's one hundred eighty school days times thirteen years of school. Of this year's crop of seniors, guess how many have that kind of record? Read More... Posted May 27 2009, 02:27 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: health, education, school, schools, Jeanne Sager, attendance, swine flu, perfect attendance, absent, school attendance

• PBS Launching Dinosaur Train for Science Kids

  For parents who have fallen in love with Sid the Science Kid (who hasn't?), good news! PBS is going prehistoric this fall with a new show aimed at expanding their offerings for our little scientists.  Dinosaur Train will let our kids hop onboard with Buddy, a young T-Rex adopted by a family of Pterandons Read More... Posted May 27 2009, 12:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: television, education, tv, adoption, PBS, science, trains, dinosaurs, Jeanne Sager, adopted, sid the science kid, Sprout, educational TV, Dinosaur Train

• Three Ways To Get to Sesame Street This Summer

  The pressure's on to plan the big family vacation? Two words. Sesame Street. And Babble's telling you how to get, how to get there. We've checked in with Elmo and Abby Cadabby and come up with our list of the best bets for summering with your tot. Read More... Posted May 27 2009, 11:02 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: vacation, sesame street, elmo, summer, theme park, Summer vacation, grover, cookie monster, Jeanne Sager, staycation, road trip, abby cadabby, water park

• They Say: Another Reason to Vaccinate Your Kid

  The no-vax movement got more bad news this week with a report in Pediatrics that confirms herd immunity does not keep the non-vaccinated safe. The study by researchers at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health determines kids whose parents opt out on vaccines are twenty three times more likely to develop pertussis than their vaccinated peers. Read More... Posted May 27 2009, 10:28 AM by JeanneSager with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: autism, vaccinations, immunizations, vaccines, pertussis, whooping cough, cdc, vaccine, Jeanne Sager, they say, pro-vax, delayed vaccinations, anti-vax

• Playdate: Does Your Sitter 'Love' Your Kids?

  My daughter tells her babysitter "I love you" every day when I pick her up and gives her a kiss. Her sitter does it right back.  And although we're not related, it doesn't bother me one wit.  According to Amy Jo over at Philly Moms Blog, it should. Read More... Posted May 26 2009, 04:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: love, teacher, playdate, Jeanne Sager, emotions, babysitter, nursery school, daycare provider