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17 Great Ideas Adults Stole From Kids
We talk a lot about kids acting more and more like grown-ups. They watch prime-time TV, wear make-up, dress like cocktail waitresses. But adults are borrowing heavily from kids, too. Can you blame them? Some kids things are too good to give up. So what if you’re no longer dependent on your mom for a [...]
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Public Pressure Pushes Dad to Give Up Human Breast Milk Diet
Curtis has weaned. After a storm of criticism last week, the California father who decided to work his way through a freezer full of breast milk ended his stunt and, along with his wife, took down their blog “Don’t Have a Cow, Man.” Instead of seeing how long the 6’4″ and 185-pound “Curtis” could survive [...]
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Group Works to End Child Marriage … Everywhere But Here
Yesterday, a group of prominent world leaders launched a worldwide campaign to end child marriage in one generation. The focus of the initiative, Girls Not Brides, is to help activists in the developing world who are already working toward that goal through education and support. Child marriage is huge worldwide. Some 10 million girls under [...]
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Car Seat Laws: When Rear-Facing Isn’t an Option and Sitting Up Front Is
I am all over car safety and properly installed car seats and height/weight age recommendations for when to put who where and in what direction. I was well aware of the new recommendations a couple of years ago that suggested parents of toddlers wait until their child turned 2 years-old before turning around their rear-facing [...]
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Largest Restaurant Chain to Makeover Kids Meals by Next Summer
Here’s the deal: Americans eat out a lot. One out of every two dollars spent on food is spent at a restaurant. One-third of all calories consumed came from foods and drinks served at a restaurant. Whether we realize it or not, restaurants are a big part of what and how Americans and their kids [...]
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Reward Offered to Family of Girl Supposedly Harmed by HPV Vaccine
Two university professors have ponied up an ,000 reward for the family of a girl who Republican presidential hopeful U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann keeps bringing up as an example of how harmful the HPV vaccination is. The profs doubt that such a girl exists and they’d like some proof in the form of released medical [...]
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Why Don’t Parents Take Childhood Obesity Seriously?
Do parents take obesity seriously enough? According to doctors involved in a recent study, no, no they do not. The survey, conducted by the Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, found that only just over half of parents said they would seek medical help for an overweight child, whereas at least three-quarters said [...]
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