the honest scoop – 12-16-09
Today’s top news headlines for parents
RECALL: 800,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine intended for young children have been recalled after they were found to have diminished potency.
It’s life in prison for the Iowa mom who slit the throats of her 2-year old and 7-year old sons, killing the youngest one and leaving the other for dead.
Run, run, run, run, runaway:
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The Accelerated Reader program gives more credit for reading a Twilight book than John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Really?
The KIDS project, Kids Identifying and Defeating Stroke, taught children the warning signs of strokes in their relatives and encouraged them to call 911 to save lives.
Desperately trying to find their abducted children, Guatemalan parents are seeking DNA tests of children adopted in the U.S..
An 8-year old boy gets suspension and a pysch evaluation after drawing Jesus on the cross when assigned by a teacher to create an image that reminds him of the holidays.
What would you do if a teacher cut your child’s hair as punishment?
Jennifer Garner faces a celebrity parent nightmare as her longtime stalker makes a visit to her daughter’s nursery school.
Joey McIntye and his wife have a new kid on the block with the birth of their second son.
Sarah Jessica Parker finds motherhood to be the “most perfectly overwhelming experience“.
There’s a shelf’s worth of new children’s books this week and here are the reviews.
The Nanny Returns:
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