Unlike straight parents, gay parents cannot go out one night, get drunk and adopt. Unlike straight parents, gay parents have children because they are wanted and planned for.Unlike straight parents, gay parents cannot go out one night, get drunk and adopt.... more
When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.
While grateful to have the information — Isabel received further testing and she doesn’t have the disease — the Mankato, Minnesota, couple wondered how the doctor knew about Isabel’s genes in the first place. After all, they’d never consented to genetic testing.
It’s simple, the pediatrician answered: Newborn babies in the United States are routinely screened for a panel of genetic diseases. Since the testing is mandated by the government, it’s often done without the parents’ consent, according to Brad Therrell, director of the National Newborn Screening & Genetics Resource Center.When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked... more
With the 2010 Winter Olympics just a week away, thousands of people from all over the world will soon be arriving in Vancouver, many for the first time. And many of those people will have their kids along with them.With the 2010 Winter Olympics just a week away, thousands of people from all over the... more
There’s only so much stupid that a girl can handle and I shot way over my monthly allotment reading this one news story: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, by Anne Frank, was pulled off the shelves in Culpepper County Public Schools in Virginia after a parent complained about “the sexual nature of the vagina passage,” according to the Culpepper Star-Exponent. Since 1995, the Anne Frank Foundation has printed an unedited, definitive version of Anne’s diary, in which she apparently wrote some sexually suggestive references, including one about her sinful lady flower.
Jim Allen, the district’s director of instruction, told the Culpepper Star-Exponent, “What we have asked is that this particular edition will not be taught. I don’t want to make a big deal out of this. So we listened to the parent and we pulled it.”
Instead, 8th graders in Culpepper County will read the original Anne Frank text that was published by Otto Frank, Anne’s father, in 1947, which only contains 70 percent of Anne’s original diary. Don’t go looking for sexy parts, kids!
Sigh. Really, though, I pity the kid with the parent who complained about Anne Frank’s vagina. If The Diary of a Young Girl is seXXXy enough to get yanked, I’d bet money on it that this child does not have internet or a TV.
When my mother's health was failing, I was the "bad" sister who lived far away and wasn't involved. My sister helped my parents. She never asked me to do anything, and I didn't volunteer. I was widowed, raising kids and working, but that wasn't really why I kept to weekly calls and short, infrequent visits. I was stuck in my adolescent role as the aloof achiever, defending myself from my judgmental mother and other family craziness. As always, I deflected my sister's digs about my not being around more — and I didn't hear her rising desperation. It wasn't until my mom's funeral, watching my dad and sister cling to each other and weep, that I got a hint of their long ordeal — and how badly I'd screwed up.
My sister was so furious, she barely spoke to me during my father's last years. Honest, I'm not a terrible person. So how did I get it so wrong?
There are many Jewish cultural events this week on which International Holocaust Commemoration Day is marked on Wednesday and Tu B'Shvat falls on Shabbat, but several of them have nothing to do with those calender days.There are many Jewish cultural events this week on which International Holocaust... more
Most parents appreciate the importance of setting a good example to their children.But research suggests that youngsters learn just as much from their siblings as they do from their parents - and they pick up the bad as well as the good.
LINK : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1244061/How-siblings-just-influence-parents-childs-behaviour.htmlMost parents appreciate the importance of setting a good example to their children.But... more
"The Transportation Security Administration, under scrutiny after last month’s bombing attempt, has on its Web site a “mythbuster” that tries to reassure the public.
“Meet Mikey Hicks,” said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and frequent traveler who has seldom boarded a plane without a hassle because he shares the name of a suspicious person. “It’s not a myth.”
Michael Winston Hicks’s mother initially sensed trouble when he was a baby and she could not get a seat for him on their flight to Florida at an airport kiosk; airline officials explained that his name “was on the list,” she recalled.
The first time he was patted down, at Newark Liberty International Airport, Mikey was 2. He cried.
After years of long delays and waits for supervisors at every airport ticket counter, this year’s vacation to the Bahamas badly shook up the family. Mikey was frisked on the way there, then more aggressively on the way home.
“Up your arms, down your arms, up your crotch — someone is patting your 8-year-old down like he’s a criminal,” Mrs. Hicks recounted. “A terrorist can blow his underwear up and they don’t catch him. But my 8-year-old can’t walk through security without being frisked.”
It is true that Mikey is not on the federal government’s “no-fly” list, which includes about 2,500 people, less than 10 percent of them from the United States. But his name appears to be among some 13,500 on the larger “selectee” list, which sets off a high level of security screening.
At some point, someone named Michael Hicks made the Department of Homeland Security suspicious, and little Mikey is still paying the price. (His father, also named Michael Hicks, was stopped for the first time on the Bahamas trip.)"
FYI: The underwear bomber was a complete set-up in order to get naked body scanners at airports. They were signed, sealed and ready to be delivered months and even years ago. They just needed the event that would send the masses calling for their rights to be further violated in the name of safety.
Eyewitnesses, including Kurt Haskell and others have stated that they witnessed the Nigerian being led through security by a well-dressed man and was being videotaped the entire flight. The man even told the airport agents in Copenhagen that he was a Sudanese refugee and they do this all the time (cut lines w/o going through security). LOOK IT UP!!!!!!"The Transportation Security Administration, under scrutiny after last... more
"SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Army filed charges Tuesday against a single-mom soldier who refused to deploy to Afghanistan last year, arguing she had no family able to care for her infant son.
Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, a 21-year-old Army cook, could face a prison sentence and a dishonorable discharge if she is convicted in a court-martial. But first, an officer will be appointed to decide if there's enough evidence to try a case against her.
Hutchinson of Oakland, Calif., was scheduled to deploy from Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah on Nov. 5. She skipped her unit's flight, saying the only relative she had to take care of her 10-month-old son - her mother - was overwhelmed by the task and backed out a few days before Hutchinson's departure date.
A spokesman for Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah said Wednesday that Hutchinson has been charged with missing movement - for missing her overseas flight - being absent without leave, dereliction of duty and insubordinate conduct.
The stiffest charge, missing movement, carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a dishonorable discharge.
The decision to charge Hutchinson was far different than the Army's handling of another recent case involving a military mom."
What's next? Burn her on the stake for being a witch?"SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Army filed charges Tuesday against a single-mom... more
LOS ANGELES - Barred from using lead in children's jewelry because of its toxicity, some Chinese manufacturers have been substituting the more dangerous heavy metal cadmium in sparkling charm bracelets and shiny pendants being sold throughout the United States, an Associated Press investigation shows.
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NAFTA and GATT was a bipartisan effort, led by Al Gore and Newt Gingrich b/c both parties are owned by the NWO. If we support the Freedom of Currency Act, Industrial Hemp Act and End the Fed, all proposed by Ron Paul, we can save this country and protect our children.LOS ANGELES - Barred from using lead in children's jewelry because of its... more
According to a recent report, Americans aged 25–34 have attained less education than their parents' generation.
If the data cited by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) commission report is correct, the United States and Germany are the only two nations in the world where this holds true.According to a recent report, Americans aged 25–34 have attained less education... more
GLEN - Two parents in Montgomery County are accused of improperly home schooling their children.
Forty-seven-year-old Richard Cressy and his wife, 41-year-old Margie Cressy, are charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
The sheriff's department says the two were home schooling their four children, ages 8 to 14 years old, without the required approval from the school district.
The Cressys were issued appearance tickets to appear in Glen Town Court at a later date. http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S1343029.shtml?cat=300GLEN - Two parents in Montgomery County are accused of improperly home schooling their... more
University of Pennsylvania Clinical psychologist, Dr. Mary Riggs Cohen, and her former patient, Jacob Heinz, share their thoughts about what it means to live with the silent disability called ASPERGER SYNDROME (ALSO CALLED HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM), a neurological disorder of the brain. Jacob Heinz was jailed in 2006 in a Bensalem, Pennsylvania Police Department sting operation via myspace.com where officers posed as a 13 year old girl and had sexual conversations. Given the skyrocketing autism epidemic bedeviling the United States, are adult men and women with asperger syndrome more likely to commit sexual crimes than others?University of Pennsylvania Clinical psychologist, Dr. Mary Riggs Cohen, and her former... more
Mostly music events for Jewish kids and their parents, as well as movies and comedy for singles in NYC on Friday December 25th, and indie music for young adults Saturday night December 26th.~y2009m12d22-Not-our-holiday-week-NYC-Jewish-events-Part-2-Xmas-Day
Mostly music... more
Giving children computers of their own and teaching them how to use and take care of them has many benefits. When you're ready to give a kid that responsibility, netbooks make a good first computer because they’re small and inexpensive. Some are even made for pre-teen and educational markets.
Which should you choose? That depends on the age of the kid or teen in question, your level of tech savvy, and how much you want to monitor. We've found 6 great netbooks for both younger and older kids. Many are durable -- spill-resistant keyboards and solid state drives to limit damage from bumps and drops -- and some come with parental control software. There are also some software suggestions for the laptops that don't come with it.
Talking to your child about technology is like having the sex talk. Except kids are helping to write the rules.
What limits can a parent set on texting, social networking, etc? And how do you go about enforcing them? To get some answers, we asked a handful of parenting experts to weigh in on age-appropriate guidelines for everything from Web surfing to cell phones to parental controls. Spoiler alert: They don’t always agree.
In the end, parental controls and technology that lets you set limits on cell phone usage are only minor tools in a parent’s arsenal. More important, parents should seize upon the opportunity to share their childrens’ experiences with technology. According to the CCT’s Pasnik, an ongoing dialog is a must, even if it’s not directly related to what kids should avoid online.
Police report calls it 'very, very brief' stun to get her into patrol car
"OZARK, Ark. - Ozark Police Chief Jim Noggle says one of his officers used a Taser on a 10-year-old girl who was combative when the officer tried to get the girl into a patrol car to be taken to a youth shelter.
Noggle said Tuesday that officer Dustin Bradshaw went to the girl's home after her mother called police woman called police.
According to a report filed by Bradshaw on Thursday, the officer found the girl on the floor of the house screaming and crying. She refused to follow her mother's instructions and the mother told Bradshaw to use his Taser.
Bradshaw carried the girl to the living room and told her she was going to jail, according to the report. The girl was violently kicking, the report said, and struck Bradshaw in the groin with her legs and feet.
The report said Bradshaw administered a "very, very brief" stun with the Taser, put the girl in handcuffs and carried her to his patrol car. She was taken to the Western Arkansas Youth Shelter in Cecil."
Do cops get off tasering children? And for the mom to condone this, allegedly?Police report calls it 'very, very brief' stun to get her into patrol car... more
"The Dutch health institute RIVM has stopped the distribution of a batch of Pfizer's Prevnar childhood vaccine following the death of three babies shortly after being vaccinated.
The vaccine has been labeled 'do not use' and and new supplies have been made available to doctors.
The exact cause of the death of the infants is not yet known, the RIVM said. The babies died between one and 11 days after the vaccination."
Don't worry, just take your Viagra and everything will be ok."The Dutch health institute RIVM has stopped the distribution of a batch of... more
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