the honest scoop – 11-2-09
Today’s top news headlines for parents
A homecoming game turns fatal for an honors student as she is gunned down outside her high school’s football game.
Mistaking a field trip permission form for a letter threatening to take her 8-year old son away, a New Jersey mom who can’t read English did the only logical thing she could think of – she stabbed him with a steak knife.
The effects of sexting on teens:
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Pneumonia kills more kids than any other disease and the U.N. thinks they have the plan that can save over 5 million children over the next few years.
“Medical child abuse” and what can be done to put an end to it.
Despite increasing numbers of students with diabetes, schools find themselves with fewer nurses to safeguard their well-being.
A mother faces the difficult decision of stopping her cancer treatment for 9 months during her pregnancy.
Two mothers on the H1N1 vaccine:
For developing language and cognitive skills, librarians back good old fashioned reading to your kids over Baby Einstein videos.
And straight from the new release shelf, a fresh batch of reviews of good old fashioned books.
A history in pictures of Disney’s young stars, from Annette to Miley.
Word on the street is that Mel Gibson just became a new dad for the 8th time with the birth of a baby girl.
Japan’s latest trend for those expecting – pregnant portraits:
