June, 2010 Archives

the honest scoop – 07-30-10

Posted by: Michael Sajkowicz, June 30, 2010 in 11:18 am

Today’s top parenting news headlines

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As the seventh baby in California dies from whooping cough since January, the public is being urged to get immunized.

They may be more than worth it but, unfortunately, we’re never going to be able to pay our kindergarten teachers $320,000 per year.

After the suicide of his daughter, a father seeks an apology from her alleged bullies:

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the honest scoop – 07-29-10

Posted by: Michael Sajkowicz, June 29, 2010 in 12:30 pm

Today’s top parenting news headlines

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President Obama takes teachers head on, demanding accountability for their performance and standards to measure their effectiveness.

It’s truly a horror scene in France as authorities find the bodies of eight newborn babies in the garden of the mother who suffocated and buried them after delivering each one herself at home.

How to discipline someone else’s child:

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We Don’t Need No Stinking Boy

Posted by: , June 28, 2010 in 10:26 am

I have two daughters and one wife.

We Dont Need No Stinking BoyThat is why this blog is called Out-Numbered.

Get it?

I want to make something perfectly clear to all of the people, past, present or future that will inevitably ask my wife and I if we’re going to try for a boy.

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the honest scoop – 07-28-10

Posted by: Michael Sajkowicz, June 28, 2010 in 9:22 am

Today’s top parenting news headlines

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She was drunk, high and driving over 80 miles per hour down the wrong side of the highway when she killed her own 2-year old daughter, her three nieces and three other people in a head-on crash… and now her husband is cashing in through a movie deal with HBO.

One unlucky 9-year old boy flying alone out of Chicago’s O’Hare airport ends up stuck in a waiting room for eight hours after staff forget about him.

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First Day Jitters

Posted by: Kim Karp Lappen, June 27, 2010 in 5:20 pm

First Day Jitters

I was talking to my friend the other day and she told me that she had already received three playdate solicitations for her son who is entering kindergarten in the fall.  The school had just held an orientation for the incoming students and already the parents were jockeying for position, clearly trying to secure friendships for their children and allowing four months for those friendships to marinate and take hold before the first day of school come September. 

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the honest scoop – 07-27-10

Posted by: Michael Sajkowicz, June 27, 2010 in 9:56 am

Today’s top parenting news headlines

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Civil rights groups do not believe that current education reform programs and the “Race to the Top” grant system are fair to minority students.

Going beyond the simple annoyance of crying babies on airplanes, one passenger claims she went partially deaf thanks to the shrill shreik of a zealous child.

Blind parents denied custody of their own baby?

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the honest scoop – 07-26-10

Posted by: Michael Sajkowicz, June 26, 2010 in 8:57 am

Today’s top parenting news headlines

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Contact lenses are the leading cause behind the 70,000 U.S. children that end up in hospital emergency rooms every year due to at-home medical devices.

It’s hard to get any lower than letting a child ingest cocaine and PCP because you let him chew on tin foil tainted with the drugs.

Getting into Manhattan’s kindergartens for “gifted” kids is serious business… but is it fair?

Medical marijuana for children:

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Teething Bling

Posted by: Gillian Garrett, June 24, 2010 in 2:02 pm

Teething BlingJust when you think there is nothing new and innovative to invent…along comes a ’smart mom’ to create something fabulous!   Smart Mom (great name by the way) created ”Teething Bling” (great name by the way) for the little sucker to suck on.  It’s AWESOME!

We all know how teething babies are not only curious but love to put everything and anything they can get

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Our 7-Month Old Juvenile Delinquent

Posted by: KellyC, June 24, 2010 in 11:11 am

WOur 7 Month Old Juvenile Delinquenthen we went to our parents teacher conference for my older son, my husband was waiting in the hall with our 7-month old.  He had sat right in front of the fire alarm that was bright RED.  Our little one was on daddy’s lap facing it and couldn’t resist.  She crawled up his belly, pulled down on that big red button and set the fire alarm off in the school!  So the entire school had to evacuate.  The fire trucks came and everything.  The firemen had to walk through the school to make sure there was no fire.  It took awhile and the teachers weren’t happy about it.  The kids were though!  I thought it was funny but daddy was upset and embarrassed.

the honest scoop – 07-23-10

Posted by: Michael Sajkowicz, June 23, 2010 in 9:26 am

Today’s top parenting news headlines

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Wanting a life with “normal” kids, a mother does the unthinkable to her two young autistic children.

The whooping cough epidemic currently hitting California, that has already killed six children, is the worst that the state has seen in fifty years… and South Carolina may be next.

Should a pregnancy lead to a mortgage rejection?

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