the honest scoop – 12-6-09
Today’s top news headlines for parents
In a story that seems more like the plot of a bad TV movie, a wife makes two attempts to kill the baby of her husband’s mistress.
After starving her 9-year old daughter to death, a Michigan mother covered her in mothballs and stashed her in a self-storage unit… and for some reason this is only involuntary manslaughter.
Breastfeeding- it’s what’s good for babies:
An added bonus of getting your kid a chickenpox vaccination – it lowers their risk of getting shingles later in life.
Zhu Zhu Pets come under fire as one consumer protection group claims that they contain unsafe levels of a cancer causing chemical.
Meanwhile, parents are running themselves ragged like hamsters in a wheel trying to find the elusive and very scarce Zhu Zhus in time for Christmas.
A study suggests that teens who are addicted to the internet are twice as likely as other kids to harm themselves.
With A Thin Line, MTV has launched a campaign aimed at stopping abusive online behavior among our youth such as cyberbullying and sexting.
Adolescents who pursue healthy weight loss strategies are more successful than their colleagues using fad-oriented or extreme diets.
Great children’s books for the holidays:
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Here is one LEGO toy that you should not be getting for your children this Christmas.
Celebrities step out with their kids- Michael Douglas, Linda Evangelista and Conan O’Brien.
SNL alumni Maya Rudolph and film director Paul Thomas Anderson welcomed their second child last month – a baby girl to join Pearl, her 4-year old big sister.
Kate Hudson fancies herself a strict mother in order to keep her son from being cute just to get get goodies.
Babies – coming to theater in April 2010:
