the honest scoop – 02-02-10
Today’s top news headlines for parents
The new Counsyl Universal Genetic Test offers parents-to-be the chance to assess the risk that they may pass on over 400 potential diseases, mutations or abnormalities to their children.
Researchers can’t be sure why, although improvements in treatment are the obvious cause, but the death rates for children in the U.S. with rheumatic disease are dropping.
President Obama looks to upgrade No Child Left Behind:
Combine chorioamnionitis, a common infection experienced by some pregnant women, with a premature delivery and you end up with a baby predisposed to being asthmatic.
As if obese boys didn’t already have enough to deal with, being overweight may also delay the onset of puberty.
And the pressure to be unrealistically thin is weighing down upon 9 out of 10 teenage girls in America.
An experimental abstinence sex ed program that drops the preaching and heavy-handed morality in favor of a realistic look at the pros and cons actually shows some success in getting young teens to put off the start of sexual activity.
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Little Pim’s Word Bag is one app that is filled with fun while it teaches your kids a new language.
Harry Potter’s Emma Watson is adding fashion designer to her busy schedule with her only line of Fairtrade clothes for teens.
And the nominees for Best Animated Feature Film are… Up, The Princess and the Frog, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Secret of Kells.
Gisele Bundchen discovers that “to be a mother is a magical experience.”
It’s a boy!
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