Numbers to make you crazy: 22% of kids still living in poverty. Science Daily1 in 6 kids bullied and if that’s not enough to make you tense, 1 in 3 spend at least 3 hours a day on video games. Science DailyBut kids playing lots of violent video games aren’t particularly bothered or …
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Post-Hurricane Grit: Example of cautious optimism My son came home from school carrying a crinkled drawing of a volcano with chasms of bright red practically pulsating on the page. Ordinarily I’d think nothing of his first-grade choice-time scribblings* but we’d just come through a week and a half of freakish natural …
In case you missed it… BISPHENOL-A has popped up more frequently in the pee of obese kids even after controlling for diet and exercise in a new study, part of a large national US health survey. Is it possible that BPA is a monster that not only grows breasts too soon, deforms genitals …
Here’s a selection of the most fabulous lines drawn from the parenting media this week. Snarkiest Comment comes from Abigail Zuger, M.D. reviewing in the New York Times Epidemic of Absence, a book by Moises Velasquez-Manoff who says we get sick because we’re too clean (i.e.the Super Hygiene Hypothesis): But Mr. Velasquez-Manoff’s ambitious …