the honest scoop – 11-21-09
Today’s top news headlines for parents
The class trip for the elementary school students of P.S. 5 got more exciting than they ever could have imagined when their school bus burst into flames on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
Meanwhile, dismissal time turned to tragedy at the Forest Hills Middle School as an out of control driver mows down 10 children and leaves one parent dead.
Time to check your medicine chest as Vicks recalls 120,000 bottles of Sinex over possible bacterial contamination.
Are the helicopter moms finally coming in for a landing?
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One contributing factor to the rise in premature babies is the misinformation many mothers have about what actually constitutes a full term birth.
A 50 cent drop in cost for a cheap five-in-one vaccination is going to allow more than 6 million additional kids worldwide to get protection from diptheria, tetanus, pneumonia, hepatitis and other diseases.
To save parents the multicultural faux pas of naming their baby “pickpocket” in Japanese, a new firm checks the international translations of the names that made the short list.
Looks like those letters to Santa will make it through after all.
Pregnant with twins – more babies, more monitoring:
Child safety watchdogs say these are the 10 most dangerous kids toys of 2009.
A quick trip down the rabbit hole gives us another look at the new Alice in Wonderland.
Internet scammers are using Twilight / New Moon fever to help spread computer viruses via enthusiastic but unsuspecting fans.
The Vatican submits it’s own review of New Moon, letting parents know that it is “a moral vacuum with a deviant message“.
Judge for yourself – the movie all the kids will be seeing this weekend:
