Balloon Boy Parents Expected to Plead Guilty
The balloon parents reportedly plan to plead guilty tomorrow morning on a variety of offenses linked to the hoax.
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Teen Hero Saves Paralyzed Man
An eagle-eyed teen spotted a car at the bottom of an embankment from the window of his school bus last Friday in Sullivan Country, NY. He alerted his mom after the bus dropped him off, she checked it out and a life was saved.
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Keeping Kids Safe Behind the Wheel
The parents of Hamilton County, IN want to reduce teen traffic accidents in a big way, and have come up with safe driving initiatives called Now Think Now and Buckle Down.
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Teen Wearing Wig Sent Home From School
17-year-old O’Rhonde Chapman likes to wear jumbo gold hoop earrings, long flowing wigs and stiletto heels. So what’s the big deal? To the school administrators of Nimitz High School in Texas, it’s the fact that O’Rhonde was born a “he”. Unhappy with his attire, the school principal recently sent him home.
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Mommy, Can I Make a Facebook Profile? Please!?!?
Mom and Dad delight in rediscovering old chums. High-schooler James uses it to make plans, publish goofy photos and check out the hotties who are friends of friends. But now 10-year-old Abigail wants her own Facebook page. Should you let her?
Both Facebook and MySpace require users to be thirteen, but…come on. Site administrators may not know that a portion of their users still have American Girl dolls languishing on their beds and, even if they care, will likely not find out. Is this a bad thing? Opinions from experts fall all over the map, as CNN found out when it recently raised the question.
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Keeping Your Kid Safe Online
The cyberworld is chock-full of scary things. Social networking sites enable our kids to meet people that they never would in the real world–people you’d prefer they not encounter at this age–or ever. Cyberbullying? Happens every day. And sexting? Yup, it’s a fact of life.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the internet comes with risks. Of course parents need to be aware of all of the internet bogeymen out there. Just as importantly, they need to talk to their kids about the ways they communicate and socialize online. The FTC wants to help with Net Cetera: Chatting With Kids About Being Online, a useful go-to guide for parents.
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Should You Tell Your Kid You Were Canned?
So you figured that it would happen at one point in your life and it finally did. You’ve been fired. Pink-slipped. Handed your walking papers. Now what on earth do you tell the kids?
My initial gut would have been to sugarcoat it…spin a fairy tale worthy of Walt Disney himself. But then I read a piece in the Huffington Post by Mika Brzezinski’s, co-anchor of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. A few years before landing the cable gig, Brzezinski was a hot shot at CBS News: anchor of the weekend newscast and correspondent for 60 Minutes Wednesday. A network shakeup sent her to the unemployment line, clutching a severance package and a bruised ego.
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Help in the Hunt for the Perfect College
Your university-bound genius has tackled the SATs and has a GPA that’s nothing to sneeze at. Now comes the hard part: finding the perfect college. You’ve pored over all the well-known guides and narrowed your choice down to an unmanageable 50 or 60 schools. Sure, name brand universities and an accessible location are a nice start, but how will you know which school will be the right fit for your kid? Will she be happier at College A or College B? Help is available at InsideCollege.com. Continue reading »
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They Say: Maybe a Little Screen Time is Not So Bad
It seems that the recent refund offer by Disney was the spark that reignited the flame of a decades-old controversy: Is television harmful to tots? Are we a society of lazy, selfish parents that use the screen as a live-in babysitter? And if so, are we creating a society of mush-brained mutants that call the remote “Daddy”?
Julia Pimsleur Levine, mother of 2 and creator of Little Pim, an educational foreign-language DVD series for the toddler set, has weighed in with the following letter:
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Halloween Hair for Dummies
Everyone has a bad hair day, but on Halloween you get one and only one chance to make your follicular mark, so you’d better get it right. The folks over at Cozy’s Cuts for Kids in New York City have come up with fool-proof ways to make your little trick-or-treater shine in some of this season’s most popular costumes.
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