Can you name this week’s featured Thomas Engine? Yes, you’re allowed to ask your child for help!
Here’s a hint: This engine is feisty, fun and very free spirited! She idolizes Thomas and wants to copy his every move. …read more
Stumped? Just visit the new Engine Depot section of the revamped Thomas and Friends website. There you can see Thomas and all of his engine friends.
Today’s top news headlines for parents
The health insurance industry has offered assurances to the White House that they will follow new rules that protect children from being denied coverage over pre-existing conditions.
Coming up with an unholy trinity of reasons why it’s not to blame, it looks like the Vatican is lawyering up for a legal defense against the latest child sexual abuse scandal.
A young mom with a 2-year old daughter ships out for Basic Training:
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Today’s top news headlines for parents
Those pesky “pre-existing conditions” may still end up keeping your children from getting health care coverage.
Nine kids in Massachusetts face charges related to the statutory rape and extreme bullying of a 15-year old girl that led her to commit suicide.
Parents can (and should) take on cyber-bullying:
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Today’s top news headlines for parents
Indiana has a new idea for dealing with their budget deficit – slash payments to foster parents of special needs children from $100 per day down to just $25.
Every year, more than 15,000 British kids have one thing to thank for giving them asthma – their parents secondhand cigarette smoke.
Watch for these signs if your child experiences a knock to the head:
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Each time I’m pregnant it gets worse. The “pregnancy brain” and its forgetfulness is much more apparent, my body grows more weary and I can do less and less at a time. Gone are the long runs or even the short ones. Dance Party USA with my two kids at our house becomes a distant memory. That is unless I want to throw up for long periods of time afterwards. Thanks, but I’ll pass. Someone else can run the dance party and tunes.
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‘Got my eyes on a hot new diaper bag!’ Well, that’s not something you hear every day. But the new Swag Bag from JJ Cole is where diaper bag function FINALLY meets ‘I’ve-still -got-style’-fashion!
It’s so adorably chic that I tend to tote it out even when not toting my baby! Since when can a diaper bag be so trendy? In the past, I’ve always had to carry TWO bags- a nice handbag and a ‘diapery’ diaper bag. Then, I would leave the car with one (forgetting either diapers, or my wallet depending upon which bagged I grabbed). Or, even more annoying, sometimes I took both.
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Today’s top news headlines for parents
Newborn baby Houston Tracy is only 12 days old today but his health insurance has already denied him surgical treatment for an arterial defect because they consider it a pre-existing condition.
Fertility clinics are pushing the limits with the premium rate for human eggs from attractive, intelligent donors now reaching up to $50,000.
Super-Nanny to the rescue!
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Family trip commence.
Witness my mad parenting skillz.
Airplane style…
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Today’s top news headlines for parents
If you’re a middle school teacher in California, don’t show up to class drunk unless you want to be charged with felony child endangerment.
And if you’re a middle school teacher in California, don’t sleep with your 14-year old student unless you want to serve… one year in jail?
Could a junk food toy ban help fight childhood obesity?
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(Or how I almost became the Mommy Police)
My church has a little nursery room Moms can escape to when the little ones are antsy or cranky, and my daughter, Eliza, was getting tired of being trapped inside the pew, so we went there. Already inside was a two year old girl, let’s call her… “Bolivia,”* and a 13 year old girl watching her. My daughter loves to make new friends, especially with kids about her size (my daughter is 14 months.) So, automatically, she just adored this Bolivia. All was going well, until my daughter found a toy in the toy box. Suddenly, Bolivia grabs the toy from Eliza, and hits her on the forehead with it. Now, my daughter is a tough toddler (by virtue of being a toddler), and she has a big brother, so she’s had her share of toys being snatched away and it usually doesn’t even phase her. But when this little girl she’d JUST MET attacked her unprovoked (and after we’d shared Eliza’s coloring book with her!!), it really threw Eliza for a loop.
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