Food Product Recall

There is a massive recall of products containing hydrolyzed vegetable protein, which may contain salmonella.
The list of foods can be viewed here.
I linked to the US site because there are far more affected products listed on the site. For the Canadian site you can click here.

Top 10 Safest Sunscreens For Children

The list of the safest sunscreens on EWG has changed slightly, the large report is still showing as 2009 but I am sure the 2010 is coming soon for all of us eager to see the top rated sunscreens.
However, the order has changed since my last post of the top 30, so I [...]

Online Safety Tips For Kids

Since yesterday was Safer Internet Day (and I was unaware of this actually) there are n ew articles out emphasizing once again how dangerous the internet can be to unsuspecting children using the web, especially those who use social networking sites such as Bebo and Facebook.
So here’s a few links to some interesting articles, [...]

Is There a Link Between Tv Ads & Junk Food?

I would give a resounding YES as my answer to that question.
However, a Canadian researcher is  looking to find her own, more official answer to that question by doing a study regarding the correlation between Tv ads for junk food and the weight of children. Apparently, the law in Qubec prohibts advertisers from targeting children [...]

Learn Your Phone Number Games

My son is at the age where all this information should be embedded into his little noggin, and here are a couple little games to play with your child to help learn his/her home phone number.  Make small cards, each the same size, and each with a digit of your phone number. This would work as [...]

TV Time For Children in Daycare/Dayhomes Surprisingly High

And I say surprisingly high because I would expect that with the amount of money that parents pay, there would be NO tv time except for special occasions? Since when do children watch TV in daycare centers, am I that out of the loop? I know it’s been a decade since I have even stepped [...]

One H1N1 Vaccine Enough for Kids Age 3-9. Supposedly.

You know, this is exactly why there are thousands of parents questioning the methods behind the testing and trials of new vaccinations and not trusting our government to take care of us, and instead, trying to do the research ourselves using the vast information wasteland called the internet.
I don’t mean to come across sounding like [...]

Rise in Number of Children’s Deaths From H1N1 in States

Now this article actually, for once, had a numeric comparison that I can understand and take into real consideration. There have been 76 pediatric deaths in the United States from H1N1 as of this point in the year. Each of the past three years has seen from 46 – 88 pediatric deaths from seasonal influenza, [...]

Heavy Infant Denied Health Insurance

****update:  The chubster baby can get coverage after all. I am sure that it had nothing to do with the fact that the dad works at a TV station and the insurance company realized they were totally outmaneuvered. It came from the goodness of their black, rotting hearts.****
This article was emailed to me with the [...]

Girls Spend More Time Doing Chores Than Boys

This article caught my attention this afternoon, and I had to post about it. It was interesting and depressing at the same time to read that in the families profiled, that girls were doing more housework than boys were. But it leaves a lot to be speculated about; did they profile oldest children only? Youngest? [...]

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