Although all the serious evidence does not point to vaccines as a cause for autism, it doesn’t necessarily allay every parent’s worry. Of course we want what’s best for our child, yet there’s this fear that what is best for the child also puts them in harm’s way.
Lilsugar offers 9 questions to ask your pediatrician to open a dialogue. Check with your doctor’s office because they may also address your questions by email, and may be able to give you more information than they could if answering these questions off-the-cuff during a visit.
Cheers to DadCentric for their expose on the bad reputation dads get in the media. In many Disney films if the parent even survives it’s amazing. And for those films in which the parents do survive, DadCentric takes Disney to task:
On the one hand, I agree with the author of this ParentDish post: What was Apple thinking when it approved a game based on violently shaking a crying baby?
On the other hand, there’s a certain thing I like to call The First Amendment, which says companies have the right to try to make money off a bad idea and let it wither and die from unpopularity.
Here’s an idea that had its heart in the right place, and the price seems fair, but I see a couple problems with a chiller for a child car seat.
First of all, you’re covering a hot seat back, hurray, but replacing it with a back-freeze inducing 32 degrees. Imagine being a sweaty child and sitting with your butt and back on an ice cube.
Second, it won’t protect a child from the hot metal of seat buckles in front of them, unless you kept the seat buckle covered all the time with this chiller — in which case, when do you keep the chiller in the freezer?
When I saw the headline the same thought came to my mind that came to Lilsugar’s: Mom spit. It even comes in a bottle now.
No offense to Lilsugar but Daddies do these things to, and more. My wife is averse to vomit, I am not. I’ve eaten food off, shall we say, horizontal surfaces at floor level. And never before in my life would I have imagined I could wipe mashed poo out of a butt crack with no disgust whatsoever.
A bill easily passed the Wisconsin Legislature and is waiting for the governor’s signature that requires insurance companies to pay for cochlear implants or hearing aids for children to restore their hearing. Specifically, the bill says insurance companies can’t consider hearing loss a pre-existing condition for children.
Ratings for G-, PG- and select PG-13 rated movies. Movies with 60% or more positive reviews are considered “fresh” (). Visit Rotten Tomatoes for summaries and movie reviews.
In theaters (first- and second-run)
17 Again (PG-13) - 56%
Alien Trespass (PG) - 34%
Dragonball: Evolution (PG) - 14%
Earth (G) - 85%
Fast & Furious (PG-13) - 27%
Fighting (PG-13) - 35%
Hanna Montana: The Movie (G) - 43%
Is Anybody There? (PG-13) - 53%
Monsters vs. Aliens (PG) - 73%
The Soloist (PG-13) - 61%
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (PG-13) - 4%
Top DVD rentals and upcoming releases
Bedtime Stories (PG) - 22%
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG) - 41%
Bolt (PG) - 88%
The Day the Earth Stood Still (PG-13) - 21%
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (G) - 66%
Hotel for Dogs (PG) - 44%
Jetsons: The Movie (N/R) - 18%
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG) - 65%
Marley and Me (PG-13) - 60%
The Tale of Despereaux (G) - 55%
Twilight (PG-13) - 49%
Reviews are current at the time of this posting and subject to change.
If a mother won’t breast-feed because of the benefits to their child (and studies show barely more than ten percent of American mothers do), maybe they’ll do it for themselves.
A study by the University of Pittsburgh found the longer mothers breast-fed, the lower their risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol by 10- to 23-percent.
Researchers say women had to breastfeed at least 6 months for the health benefits to be stastistically significant. (By then, the benefits to their baby have been quite significant, too.)
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If a mother won’t breast-feed because of the benefits to their child (and studies show barely more than ten percent of American mothers do), maybe they’ll do it for themselves.
