Today’s top news headlines for parents
After five years apart due to a parental abduction and legal wranglings in the Brazilian courts, Sean Goldman is finally reunited with his father and coming home to America.
A pediatrician is suspected of sexually abusing more than 100 children who came to him for treatment.
Hopefully a lesson learned for this 6-year old:
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Today’s top news headlines for parents
The Brazilian Supreme Court presumably ends for good the insane saga of David Goldman’s efforts to get his abducted son back to America, ordering the return of the boy to his father
After a federal civil rights lawsuit, Texas has agreed to destroy over 5 million blood samples taken from newborn babies without their parents permission and destined for scientific research.
Tackling the topic of cancer:
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Today’s top news headlines for parents
After a public backlash, the Army backs off on its threat to court-martial female soldiers who get pregnant while serving in the Middle East.
Budget cuts are putting the brakes on driver’s ed programs across the country.
Can Sean Goldman come home?
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Today’s top news headlines for parents
After showing extreme violent tendencies, including an alleged attempt to kill them, an Oklahoma couple has decided that they’ve had enough of their adopted 11-year old son and want to give him back.
The U.S. birth stats are out showing that the overall birth rate is at a record high, teen births are increasing again, inftant mortality is high and Cesarean deliveries are increasing.
What are the odds?
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Today’s top news headlines for parents
The 14-year old girl who fought for but was refused permission to make a solo voyage by sail around the world has gone missing.
The 2-year old toddler with 42 needles stuck in his body is recovering after the first of many surgeries that will be needed to remove the objects.
On the menu:
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I was rushing around trying to get everyone together to take my oldest daughter (she was 6) to school. I often had her help me out because she was the oldest, often forgetting that she was little herself! I asked her if she would go get a blanket for the baby out of the dresser drawer not even thinking that the dresser wasn’t really stable and we hadn’t hooked it to the wall yet. We had been meaning to get to that… She opened the drawer and the whole dresser tumbled over on top of her. I was scared to death but thank God she was okay. I still feel like such a horrible parent for allowing it to happen. I try not to rush around so much in the morning now. I rather my daughter be a little late too school then squashed under a piece of furniture!!
It’s that time of year again. The time to make lists. Shopping lists, gift lists, card lists, menu planning lists and what to wear or pack lists. Exhausting, no?
Nope. I think it is exhilarating! There is nothing more anticipatorythan breaking out a fresh sheet of paper and starting a new list. Wait, there is something better! It’s crossing off all the items on the list and realizing you have actually completed a set of tasks. Your objective for the day or holiday is complete and now you can sit back and relax and enjoy yourself. As a parent of two small children and a list person this is the only way I get stuff done and can remember what exactly I was doing last. Because I know it wasn’t cleaning up peanut butter off the floor. That was definitely not on the list.
There in lies the key to all this. The list isn’t to create more work or little list babies. It’s the sharpening of a point. The key to your organization and staying on track to get the job done. It’s a tiny schedule without time lines designed to help you focus. Now if you’ll excuse me my list says I have to make a packing list so that I can follow my original list of all that I need to get done today. Like cleaning peanut butter covered in Cheerios off the floor.
Today’s top news headlines for parents
RECALL: Thanks to a faulty restraints, close to 450,000 infant car seats manufactured in China by the Dorel Juvenile Group (under numerous brand names from Costco to Sojourn to Disney to Eddie Bauer and more) have been recalled.
RECALL: Due to an issue with the child-proof packaging, approximately 700,000 Vicks Dayquil Cold & Flu medicine packs are being recalled from store shelves.
Autism diagnoses skyrocket:
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So I have discovered item number 3,257,002 that people don’t talk about with regard to motherhood. This, my friends, in an article on having a second child, and the trials this second birth brings that no one talks about.
I just checked on my almost three-year-old son after tucking him in to bed about an hour and a half ago. I came downstairs to send out the invitations to his birthday party (Diego themed, of course) and I realized I had tears streaming down my face (again). I’m assuming that most of these tears can be blamed on hormones and the fact that I had our second baby a whopping twelve days ago. But in this moment, right now, I’m really sad.
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