Today’s top parenting news headlines
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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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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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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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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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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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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Reversing the prevailing practice and wisdom, new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists state that natural, vaginal birth is safe for most women who have previously had C-section deliveries.
In a highly anticipated ruling, a judge has found that competitive cheerleading is not a sport.
On the offense against bullies:
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In case you were wondering, those full nude airport x-ray scanners do just as good a job exposing your child as they do when they’re high-tech strip-searching adults.
Black father + black mother = white baby?
Cord blood collection made easy:
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A new study finds a small but unexpected complication of in vitro fertilization – a higher risk of childhood cancer for test tube babies.
After faking terminal cancer for a free trip to Disney World, she’s not likely to be nominated for Teacher of the Year a fourth time.
High teen pregnancy rates prompt a Forever 21 maternity line:
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RECALL: Following the death of a 2-year old, approximately 20,000 Tots in Mind playard tents sold in the U.S. between 2005 and 2010 are being recalled due to a strangulation risk.
Are North Carolina schools actually heading back towards segregation?
Things best left unsaid to your kids:
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