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I'm in the market right now for a backpack for my two year old daughter, and I think I might have found it. The Pigeon Go-Go Backpack is too cool not to get. Not sure what it's all about? Then click the "read more" link . If you aren't familiar with the Pigeon, then FIRST you should...

Eight-year-old Jaiden Haber was sent to the principal's office for wearing a shirt that said, "N the 'N' Word" and below that, "It's time!" The principal of the Amityville school told Jaden to change the shirt. The executive director of the Nassau chapter of the New...

File this one under, "If it happened to me, my rage would know no bounds." Colleen Leduc has an eleven-year-old daughter, Victoria, who is autistic. Last month, shortly after she picked up her daughter from school, she got a call from the teacher saying she should come to the school immediately...

If you heard that a teacher did a strip tease in front of their class, you probably would think of a Van Halen -esque scene ("I got my pencil -- give me something to write on." Ah, the 80's.) At least that's what I would think of. But, once again , I would be wrong. An English teacher...

During my time going to school in New York City, I saw a lot of things. However, I never once saw a teacher pull a kid to the front of the class so the other students could berate him. I also never had a substitute teacher show up drunk. In Richardson Texas, Thomas Brownlee arrived at school with liquor...

So you think you've got pressure? Try being an only child. Then add to that the fact that your parents can't have any more children – BY LAW. Robert Siegel from NPR spent some time with an only child in China, before the devastating earthquake . The piece goes a long way towards confirming the...

It might be three months too early for most people for this post, but if your child is going to be attending a pre-school summer camp for the first time (like mine will), this is a DVD you might want to check out. Sesame Street - Ready for School deals with the anxieties about going to school for the...

Talk about being responsible for your kids' behavior: A guy in Kentucky is serving six months in jail. Why? His daughter failed her math test and didn't get her GED. The GED was required by a previous court order, and even though his daughter is now 18 years old, the decision was rendered when...

In general, I'm suspicious of hysteria surrounding how kids use the latest technology--nine times out of ten, they just do the same things kids have always done, but in a more high tech way. However, I'm a little torn as to whether social networking sites are bringing changes to interactions...

Bullying gets all of the coverage these days. Sadly, it's not the most disruptive item in a teenager's list of crap that they have to endure. No, the bigger issue seems to get the least coverage. According to a new study , more than one-third of middle- and high-schoolers believes that they have...