Day Care Sells Cocaine

Finding a good day care is so hard these days, you have to accept compromises. Maybe your kid’s day care is a little pricey, doesn’t stay open as late as you’d like, or maybe the day care sells cocaine.

An Arkansas couple was arrested for selling cocaine out of the same house where they operate a day care. Husband Timothy Boston got caught in a sting operation by police. Catching a whiff of the jig being up, Boston fled to Texas where he was arrested. His wife, Denise, was arrested at the couple’s home/child care center the same day.

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Baby Found Sucking on a Ball of Cocaine at Daycare

A baby was found sucking on a ball of crack cocaine at a Minneapolis daycare this week. Now officials are surrounding the daycare with one big question - who dropped the rock?

According to WCCO, the thirteen-month-old was in the daycare’s “infant room” when daycare staff noticed he had something in his mouth. It turned out to be a cellophane wrapped rock of crack, and the baby was sucking away. Continue reading »

Mothers Fighting To Get Their Kids Back Need A Place to Live

It’s so, so easy to judge other parents. And when those parents are really and truly bad — not “I yelled at my kid in the grocery store” or “I let them watch craploads of TV” bad, but really really bad, like “I lost my kids to foster care because I’d leave them for days at a time while I went in search of more meth” bad — it’s impossible not to.

But this very well-written column from the LA Times looks at the hurdles many mothers face as they attempt to get their lives back together and win the chance to parent their children again. Continue reading »

They Say: Maybe Following the Crowd is a Good Thing

“So if Heather told you to jump in the lake, would you?

Are you really sure you know how you’d like your teen to answer that question? You may want to think again.

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They Say: Tell The Kids You Toked

Should Whitney Houston have disclosed all the dirty details of her  freebasing past? Was it a necessary cautionary tale, or would the revelation make her teen daughter, Bobbi Kristina, want to pick up the pipe?

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Getting Kids High to Treat Autism

With the news just this week that there are more autistic kids out there than ever before, Marie Myung-OK Lee’s story of how cannabis is helping her nine-year-old son couldn’t have come at a better time.

At the outset, the idea is shocking - the family feeds their nine-year-old pot-laced cookies every day. Continue reading »

Guilt Tripping Over Family Dinners

In case you haven’t heard by now, eating together as a family is good for your kids. Study after study has found that children who eat frequent meals with their families are less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol and are more likely to make good grades in school.  Parents who manage to pull off regular family dinners pat themselves on the back and feel confident that they are doing all they can to reduce their kids’ chances of becoming drug-abusing dropouts.  Good for them, but what about the rest of us?  Continue reading »

Boy Brings Cocaine To Day Care, Girl Eats It

A 4-year-old girl ate a bag of cocaine after a fellow student gave it to her. He thought it was candy.

Why? Because that’s what his dad told him after he shoved the illegal drugs in his son’s pocket. Continue reading »

Is it Candy or Medicine?

Kids – they love the candy.  Small, big, sweet, sour, pretty much any shape, size, color or creed. But the thing about some small treats, it’s hard to tell if it’s a Tylenol or a Tic Tac.

The University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital along with the Finger Lake Regional Poison & Drug Information Center put together a pill primer that illustrates the physical similarities between pharmaceuticals and sugary treats.
They have also created an online quiz for kids to help to educate them about the differences. So next time they’re digging in your bag for a Skittles they won’t get a mouthful of Phenelzine, Pseudoephedrine or something worse.

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What Obama Will Really Say to the Kids

You’ve heard the hew and cry - the president is going to brainwash our children, he’s coming to get them. Aaack, quick, head for the bomb shelter Sally!

With parents threatening to keep their kids home from school tomorrow and many more school districts simply forgoing the planned speech to America’s children, we had to know what kind of risk our kids were really going to face come noon-time.

So Babble took a look-see at the president’s speech. Continue reading »