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It’s pure corniness, but when anyone starts talking about our children being our future, I get ferklempt. And then I found this video. In it a little boy meets his first set of gay men married to one another. And then he asks them to play ping pong.
Blogger Scout’s Honor alerted us here at Strollerderby about little Calen’s video on YouTube, where he works through the process of determining what two married means as only a kid can. Continue reading »
Baby wearing parents are set to get a major warning from the federal government that their method of carrying their kids could put their babies at risk.
The head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission told MSNBC her organization is expected to announce a generalized alert warning parents of the risks of suffocation and the children who have died while in the slings. Continue reading »
The nature of the school bus is to make life easier on parents, but the transportation situation to and from school is giving some parents major headaches.
The problem? Schools that are trying to save themselves some time and headaches by refusing to bus kids to different houses for after-school care or to satisfy custody arrangements. Continue reading »
Think there’s nothing nicer than a lactating mama? Think again. A woman in a Kentucky jail decided to use her ability to squeeze her breastmilk and make it shoot out to spray a corrections officer in the eye.
Now she’s facing assault on an officer charges, and the case is bringing to the forefront one big concern about breastmilk. Continue reading »
The good sitters have us over a barrel. You don’t want to pay too little and risk losing the rare chunk of gold that is a responsible sitter with good references who your kids actually love.
But you don’t want to bankrupt yourself just get a date night either. And surveys like the recent “Nanny Survey” out of Park Slope, Brooklyn, don’t make life much easier with statements like “Pay rates vary considerably from family to family, depending on a wide variety of factors, including some not obvious in these statistics (e.g., how demanding the employer is, Nanny’s ability to be flexible with hours, etc).”
So how do you throw all those factors out and just get down to the dollars and cents? Turns out there are just five factors you really need to consider when it comes time to pull out your wallet – or woo a new sitter. Continue reading »
It sounds like something to draw immediate outrage: a student was expelled from his Colorado school for having gay parents. So why is the school within its bounds to make this drastic decision?
Because it’s a Catholic school, a private institution where they’ve decided parents sending their kids to the school must live within the faith. And in case you hadn’t noticed, the Catholic church considers homosexuality a sin. Continue reading »
A teenager who used a couple of curse words on Facebook was suspended last week – even after she was the one beat up by a classmate.
The story comes as no surprise in the wake of schools cracking down on the online lives of both students and staff, but is every comment made online really a case of cyberbullying? Continue reading »
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