the honest scoop – 02-13-10
Today’s top news headlines for parents
After analyzing data from almost 70,000 pregnant women, researchers found no link between the use of migraine drugs and birth defects.
Some families who pay for their own health insurance are about to get slammed with premium increases of up to 39 percent (on top of some hikes last year of more than 30 percent).
One Haitian orphan finds a happy home in Colorado:
Being overweight by the age of 2 sets children on a course for a lifetime of obesity.
“The family is the underutilized weapon in the fight against childhood obesity”.
Researchers in Poland think they have additional evidence dispelling the alleged link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
The CDC takes a tally and concludes that 57 million Americans have been infected with the H1N1 virus and almost 12,000 have died from it – including more than 1,200 children.
Did a 6-year old girl, throwing a tantrum in class, deserve to be arrested, handcuffed and committed to a mental hospital?
… and 9 more cases of kids going to the big house for ridiculous reasons.
First graders tackle Valentine’s Day:
When Rebecca Gayheart gives birth later this month, husband Eric Dane promises to be right there with her in the delivery room.
Jerry Seinfeld takes on the three “poison P’s” of parenting.
Playhouse Disney presses the boy pirates back into service and heads back to Never Land with a new cartoon series.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is new in theaters now:
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