A new survey found 77% of parents feel pressure to make the holidays even better than last year, and expect to stay up past midnight five times this month to make it all happen the way they want. The poll also found kids ask a LOT of questions this time of year. And you can […]
If you’re driving more than three or four hours with your kids for Thanksgiving, you might want to break it up into two days . . . because that’s right when you’ll start HATING them. A poll of parents with kids under 12 found “peak stress” hits three-and-a-half hours into traveling. One in eight said […]
Online gift registries are always going to be divisive . . . even when they DO make sense, like for weddings and baby showers. They make it so you KNOW the gift is something they want. It also makes sure they don’t get multiples of the same thing. But on the other hand, it feels […]
Awww..Memories! What was the top holiday toy from the year you were born? How much did it cost? Here are a few years… 1920 Raggedy Anne doll, 1930 Mickey Mouse doll 1940 Red Ryder BB Gun 1950 Magic 8 Ball 1960 Etch A Sketch 1970 Nerf Ball 1980 Rubik’s Cube 1985 Teddy Ruxpin 1990 Teenage […]
Last year, poison control centers in the United States received more than 52,000 calls about melatonin overdoses in children — a new record, health officials say. The overdoses, which represent a startling 600 percent increase over the number of juvenile melatonin poisonings from a decade earlier, resulted from kids getting a hold of the […]
a new study by Common Sense, which reveals children as young as 8 years old are now commonly using social media.
1. Funeral services were held yesterday in New York for Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old blogger whose murder while on a cross-country adventure fueled intense interest across the nation and spurred a manhunt for her missing fiancĂ© and now wanted man. Locally the family of 41 year old Deidre Reid believes her case is similar to Petito’s. […]
Gastric bypass surgery is now being considered an option for children under the age of 14. If this does not serve as a major wake up call, then I don’t know what will. In some countries, this procedure is happening to children under the age of five. The guidelines for the United States have […]