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Parenting

Where's Dr. Spock when you need him? From debates over the safety of cold medicine to birthday bashes that don't bust your wallet, parenting presents plenty of tricky territory to navigate

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March 2008
- UK Teachers Blame Parents for Bratty Kids
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Mar 22, 08 3:50 PM CDT
  
  UK teachers complain that classrooms are getting tougher to control because kids throw more tantrums—and parents are to blame, the Daily Telegraph reports. A Cambridge University study says that parents are letting children indulge in video games, junk food, and TV. "Teachers described highly permissive parents who admitted to indulging their children, often for the sake of peace or simply because they had run out of alternative incentives or sanctions," the report said. More »
- In Spain, Parents Divorce to Get Kids Into Top Schools
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Mar 19, 08 3:56 PM CDT
  
  Spanish couples will do anything to get their kids into top schools—including break up, the Guardian reports. Thanks to a point-based admissions system that favors children of single parents, Spain has seen a staggering spike in divorces, suspiciously filed just ahead of the upcoming application deadline. Judges think many are “fake” splits, designed to net the all-important points. More »
- A Boy Named Sue Is a Boy Named Sue Is ...
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 11, 08 2:40 PM CDT
  
  Having an unusual name might not ruin your life, science blogger John Marion Tierney writes in the New York Times . Some new studies show that having an embarrassing name has less of an impact on future success than previously thought—and might even be helpful, because dealing with the needling can toughen you up. Tierney calls it the "Boy Named Sue paradigm." More »
- College Sports Don't Pay Off
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 10, 08 2:15 PM CDT
  
  Parents believe sports are their kids' golden ticket to college, but athletic scholarships rarely cover full tuition—and there aren't enough to go around. Football and basketball do pay off, but otherwise the average NCAA scholarship is worth $8,707, at schools that can cost up to $50,000 a year. Plus, the sacrifices demanded of a student athlete aren't always worth the free ride. More »
February 2008
- Spanked Kids May Become Sex Aggressors: Study
  
  newser | Newsweek | Feb 29, 08 10:41 AM CST
  
  Though some 90% of American parents do it, spanking remains highly controversial, and research being released today will probably fan the flames, Newsweek reports. Heavily spanking kids has a major effect on their eventual sex lives, a new study finds, making them more likely to coerce a partner into having sex, avoid protection, or indulge in sado-masochistic play. More »
- Angelina Jolie: Hooked on Kids?
  
  newser | ABC News | Feb 28, 08 10:16 AM CST
  
  As actress Angelina Jolie nurtures her latest pregnancy that will boost the number in her brood to 5—all under the age of 7—people are beginning to wonder if it's a bit much. In fact some mental health experts believe the former wild child's rapidly expanding family could be a sign of depression. A compulsion to have children "is a way of self-medicating," a psychologist told ABC News. It can be "a distraction from feelings of emptiness." More »
- Changes in Lauder Dynasty Hardly Cosmetic
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Feb 27, 08 2:16 PM CST
  
  Estée Lauder might be a massive, publicly owned company, but it’s also a family business, tightly controlled by the Lauder clan—until now. On Monday, it will welcome new president Fabrizio Freda, who will likely eventually replace CEO William Lauder—and become the first outsider to run the cosmetics giant. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the complicated family politics. More »
- Stop Temper Tantrums Like a Caveman
  
  newser | LiveScience | Feb 22, 08 12:28 PM CST
  
  When your kid has a temper tantrum, they’re a lot like a Neanderthal, reports LiveScience. Two-year-olds are still driven by instinct and emotion, explains one pediatrician, not the higher reasoning of mature adults. So don’t try to logic away a tantrum (“But honey you already have that action figure”), engage them with simple caveman sentences such as, “You are angry.” More »
- 'Perfect' School Photos, But at What Cost?
  
  newser | Newsweek | Feb 22, 08 11:52 AM CST
  
  Popular and inexpensive digital retouching of school photos has some parents concerned about the effects on kids’ sense of body image, Newsweek reports. Clients for retouching services—powdering complexions, whitening teeth, reshaping eyebrows and so forth—are getting younger and younger, creating, one historian says, "a culture of kids who are being socialized to unrealistic images." More »
- Parents Feel Negative About New New Math
  
  newser | Washington Post | Feb 19, 08 12:40 PM CST
  
  What happens when parents can't help their first-graders with their math homework? They get upset, as parents in Virginia have over the latest "new" math, which emphasizes problem-solving and visualization over memorization and drills. Many are pressing the school district to dump its new math textbook series, the Washington Post reports, and 1,000 have signed a petition to “teach math right.” More »
- Overseas Tours Cost Soldiers Child Custody
  
  newser | NPR | Feb 15, 08 3:35 PM CST
  
  In what the Pentagon and parent-advocacy groups agree is a growing trend, troops serving overseas are unable to maintain custody of their children upon their return, NPR reports. One National Guardswoman raised her son until her unit deployed to Iraq, when his father took temporary custody. AFter she returned home, a court granted her ex-husband’s request to make the situation permanent. More »
- Definitely a Winner
  
  newser | Metacritic | Feb 15, 08 1:22 PM CST
  
  Definitely, Maybe, the story of a soon-to-be-divorced dad whose 11-year-old daughter wants to hear how he met her mother, is definitely a cut above most romantic comedies, critics say. "It's a lot fresher and a bit more sophisticated than the ordinary run of maudlin chick flicks," writes Ken Fox of TV Guide . More »
- Kids' Clothes Give Teacher a Real Headache
  
  newser | The Local (Sweden) | Feb 15, 08 12:55 PM CST
  
  Bad news for Pippi Longstocking wannabes—a Swedish preschool has banned striped and polka-dotted children's clothing because the patterns trigger one teacher's migraine headaches. The ban is driving some fashion-conscious parents dotty, but the school's principal defends the teacher's right to "an appropriate work environment," reports the Local of Sweden. More »
- No Booze for You, Baby
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 12, 08 7:07 PM CST
  
  A mellow Brooklyn watering hole has recently banned an unlikely irritant: babies. Gen-X parents in New York, Philly, and DC are rolling their strollers into bars, the New York Times reports, and response has been vocal, with thirsty young moms and their childless counterparts waging a spirited Web war over babies in bars. More »
- Eating Isn't Only Healthy Benefit of Family Dinner
  
  newser | NPR | Feb 7, 08 1:18 PM CST
  
  Studies in the 1990s showed that regular family dinners made kids less likely to do drugs, smoke or have psychological problems, but a closer look now finds that it's what goes on during those meals—strong verbal interaction, parents showing interest in their children—that really counts in the youngsters' health and development, NPR reports. More »
- Baby Products Expose Infants to Chemicals
  
  newser | Reuters | Feb 4, 08 4:29 PM CST
  
  Common baby products may be exposing infants to dangerous chemicals called phthalates, a new study shows. The presence of the substances in infants' urine was linked with the use of baby lotions, powder, and shampoo. Experts don't know the long-term health consequences, but "there is a large body of animal studies to suggest developmental and reproductive toxicity" from phthalates, a doctor tells Reuters. More »
- Di's Driver Wasn't Drunk: Parents
  
  newser | Reuters | Feb 4, 08 12:35 PM CST
  
  Princess Diana's French driver wasn't drunk on the night of the crash that took both their lives, Henri Paul's parents told the London inquest today. Police concluded that Paul was intoxicated based on blood samples taken after he died in the accident. But experts have questioned the origin of the samples—and Paul's parents said authorities denied their request for independent tests. More »
- Boom in Online Schooling Fuels Broad Debate
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 1, 08 6:32 PM CST
  
  With half a million children taking classes online, debate over virtual schooling is intensifying, the New York Times reports. The proliferation of web-based public schools has sparked concerns about public financing and the appropriateness of the model for young children. In Wisconsin, meanwhile, supporters won a fight last week to keep 12 virtual schools open despite strong opposition. More »
- Child Nutrition Boosts Adult Income: Study
  
  newser | BBC | Feb 1, 08 4:20 PM CST
  
  Eating a nutritious diet as an infant has a significant effect on income later in life, a study published in the Lancet finds. Researchers looked at Guatemalan males over a three-decade period and found that those who had received a nutritious food supplement were earning close to 50% more per hour as grown men than those who had not. More »
January 2008
- Cold Meds Land 7,000 Kids a Year in the Hospital
  
  newser | Reuters | Jan 29, 08 4:43 AM CST
  
  More than 7,000 American children a year end up in emergency rooms after taking over-the-counter cold or cough medicines, the federal Centers for Disease Control reports. Most of the children take overdoses of the drugs on their own, but a quarter have bad reactions to normal doses given by their parents, according to the study of kids under 12 published in Pediatrics . More »

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