The Best Summer Movies for Kids
By Kerri Geringswald Title: Space Camp Release Year: 1986 Synopsis: A group of teens head to NASA’s space camp only to find themselves in an unimaginable situation: being launched into…
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Water Safety
By Nancy Gottesman Summer is the season we all live for: family fun for three glorious, sun-filled months of swimming, boating, fishing, camping, vacationing and just enjoying the slower pace…
Continue readingIs Your Sunscreen Safe?
With the FDA’s new guidelines for how sunscreens are tested and marketed to consumers, it will soon be easier for parents to determine which products offer the best sun protection.…
Continue readingUndercover Vegetables
By Nancy Gottesman Having trouble getting your toddler to eat his veggies? Unfortunately, so are countless other parents: In the United States, 20 percent to 25 percent of children up…
Continue readingIs Your Child Really Ready for Kindergarten?
From the NYTimes.com For this year’s graduates of preschool, the pressure begins. Most children in those adorable moving-up ceremonies are 5 years old and will start kindergarten in the fall.…
Continue readingStudy Finds Some Children Prescribed Psych Meds They Don't Need
From Time.com In a presentation this week at an American Psychiatric Association meeting, Dr. John Goethe, director of the Burlingame Center for Psychiatric Research in Connecticut, reported that over the…
Continue readingGood Parenting Can Prevent Bullying
From Live Science Parents who don’t want their children to become bullies should stay positive, talk to their kids and meet their children’s friends. That’s according to new research presented…
Continue readingStudy Says Cavities are Contagious
From the NYTimes.com Everyone knows you can catch a cold or the flu. But can you catch a cavity? Researchers have found that not only is it possible, but it…
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Does Your Child Have ADHD?
Although it is in a child’s nature to be active, energetic, and curious, there comes a point when parents begin to question whether or not such activity exceeds their child’s…
Continue readingSchool Disagreement Over Display of the Ten Commandments
From the The Roanoke Times Leaders of a second New River Valley school system are now caught up in the disagreement over schoolhouse displays of the Ten Commandments. And civil…
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