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When you pour the bubbly tonight to ring in the New Year, will your kids get a glass? Or are you more Captain von Trapp-ish in your parenting, denying even those 16 going on 17 from a taste of champagne in celebration?
Experts disagree on whether it’s good or bad to give kids alcohol at home. Some think it sends the wrong message, others say it makes the forbidden look less tantalizing.
John Lieberman, director of operations for Visions Adolescent Treatment Centers, in California, says that it’s a big mistake to think letting kids have a drink at home will keep them from abusing alcohol later in life. In fact, he thinks it might be setting them up for the worst. Continue reading »
You may recall the landmark case of Boy Scouts of America et al. v. Dale, from 2000, in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the BSA, being a private organization, has the right to discriminate as it wishes, when it comes to its membership and its volunteer staff. Since that decision was handed down, the Scouts have indeed continued their policy of discriminating against gays and atheists. Since that decision, also, the Boy Scouts have steadily lost many special accommodations and benefits they once enjoyed. Now they’ve lost another.
Sure, you could resolve to lose those extra pounds or stop smoking or eat more healthy food; those are all excellent goals and I support them wholeheartedly (and I’m working on that first one myself). If, however, you want to add a little something to spice up your list of resolutions for 2010, why not start the year off by joining Kristen Chase, a.k.a. the Mominatrix, in a little Sexual Resolution? For the entire month of January, she’ll be doling out daily sex-related assignments just for moms.
In a sad, sad reminder that all these product recalls often have some pure tragedies behind them, the maker of the Amby Baby Hammock recalled earlier this month is facing a major lawsuit.
Jonathan Kuzma is looking for $5 million from Amby Baby USA of Minneapolis. Continue reading »
One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions among my friends this year is to live a greener life. Many of us already recycle what we can and a few of us even have composting bins out back. But despite our good intentions, none of us will come close to living as green as the Strauss family of Longhope, Gloucestershire in the U.K.
This family of three has taken recycling to new heights, managing to discard just one garbage can full of trash in an entire year! Continue reading »
The good news? We’re not going to see a lot of babies named Sparrow in the coming year (sorry, Nicole and Joel). But we can, according to the self-anointed Baby Name Guru, Bruce Lansky, expect to spend a lot of time on the circle time rug with Jaydens, Aidens (or, kind of horrifyingly, Aydens), Rylees and Kylees and the entire cast of characters from the Holy Bible.
The Top 5 baby naming trends for girls and the top five for boys will bring us these names in 2010, Lansky says: Continue reading »
Less then two weeks after a major recall on Dorel-manufactured car seats, now it’s a quarter million play yard/bassinet combos being called back due to a hazard to the babies sleeping inside them.
The company made play yards under the Disney and Eddie Bauer names that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has deemed unsafe. Continue reading »
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