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  • Downward and Deeper into Sexual Confusion: Parents Choose to Raise “Genderless” Child

    05/31/2011 2:51:40 PM PDT · by NYer · 16 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | May 30, 2011 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    It is no secret that our culture as a whole is descending into an ever-deeper sexual confusion. Recently two examples of this were in the news.In the first article which I summarize here, a Canadian couple have chosen to raise (impose upon?) their child a “genderless” upbringing. For now, they have refused to tell any of their family or friends the sex of their child, whom they call “Storm,” and groom and dress the infant child ambiguously.I would like to provide excerpts of a much longer article here and comment as we go. As usual, the article is in bold,...
  • A Treasury of Children's Insane Christmas Wish Lists

    12/06/2013 4:14:36 PM PST · by mojito · 6 replies
    DeadSpin ^ | 12/6/2013 | Drew Magary
    After I posted my kid's goofy Christmas wish list on Wednesday, we asked you readers to send in some of your own. You were not a disappointment to us. One guy's kid sent in the entire contents of the toy section at Target. Another reader's kid had a list that included a diagram (its instructions and purpose were not clear). And I got one list that included "Meet my real dad" as a line item, though I daresay that list was a phony. Here, in every bit of their glory, are some of the more amusing entries.
  • Mom fined $10 for lack of grains in kids' lunch

    11/19/2013 3:14:47 AM PST · by rickmichaels · 26 replies
    Toronto Sun ^ | NOVEMBER 18, 2013 | KRISTEN ANNABLE
    WINNIPEG -- After sending her children to daycare with a lunch of roast beef, carrots and potatoes, Kristen Bartkiw was fed a $10 fine. The reason: An unbalanced meal. Despite the presence of a meat, vegetable, fruits and juice, the meal was missing a grain. The solution was to give the Rossburn, Man., school teacher a $10 fine and give her children Ritz Crackers as a supplement. "I don't blame the daycare," said Bartkiw, who was actually on the board of The Little Cub's Den when they decided to start fining parents. According to Manitoba Early Learning and Child Care...
  • Video shows toddler in a tiger costume playing copy cat with Sumatran tiger cub at a zoo (with Pix)

    11/09/2013 8:32:48 AM PST · by Innovative · 18 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | Nov 8, 2013 | Snejana Farberov
    An 'awwww'- inspiring video of a little boy in a plush tiger costume having a play date with a real-life tiger cub in a Washington state zoo has won over millions of web users in the past week. The heart-melting footage was taped by Heath and Jackie Shaffer on Halloween, when the couple took their 2-year-old son, Marshall, to the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma.
  • School principals concerned about social media site Ask.fm

    11/06/2013 4:52:14 AM PST · by SoFloFreeper · 14 replies
    KING-TV ^ | 10/22/13 | ERIC WILKINSON
    Just when you thought you had a handle on your kid's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts comes another social media site that's causing serious concerns. Ask.fm is the latest to capture the fleeting attention spans of teens and tweens. Users post questions about themselves or others and wait for responses. What makes this site different, though, is the lack of privacy controls, and the fact that those instant responses can be completely anonymous. A quick scan of the site shows everything from insults over body image, to posts encouraging suicide. Ask.fm has about 65 million users, many of them children....
  • 25 Extremely Inappropriate Halloween Costumes for Kids

    10/09/2013 5:36:45 PM PDT · by SUPman · 65 replies
    Opposing Viewa ^ | October 9, 2013 | misc.
    As we ease our way into Fall, our favorite dress-up holiday approaches. We've decided to give you a little foresight into dressing up the young'uns this year: please, try not to destroy their innocence too early. Here are some of the most hilarious, yet terribly inappropriate children's Halloween costumes we've ever seen
  • Boston school bus drivers staging illegal work action

    10/08/2013 5:41:16 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 10 replies
    necn.com ^ | 10/8/13
    According to Boston Public Schools, school bus drivers in the city are staging an illegal work action. According to a statement from Boston Public Schools, "United Steelworkers of America Local 8751, which represents approximately 700 school bus drivers in the city of Boston, is staging an illegal work action this morning aimed at disrupting school bus service to students in BPS, private, parochial and charter schools."
  • 10 things your kids won’t tell you Fewer people are having kids, and those who do..

    09/22/2013 5:29:16 AM PDT · by cunning_fish · 62 replies
    MarketWatch ^ | Sept. 22, 2013, 7:50 a.m. EDT | Quentin Fottrell
    1. “I will cost you your dream house.” Couples thinking about starting a family might want to boost their saving goals. The cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 is higher than the price of the average American home: Middle-income parents spend over $241,000 to raise a child, according to a study released last month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. The median price of a home, in contrast, currently stands at $203,500. And statistics show that, unsurprisingly, the more a family earns, the more they spend on their kids. There...
  • First lady hosts summit on food marketing to kids (wants healthier food options promoted)

    09/18/2013 10:09:52 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 19 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | 9/18/13 | Darlene Superville - ap
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama used the power of her bully pulpit Wednesday to push food companies and television broadcasters to do more to promote healthier foods to children — and to do it faster. Research shows food marketing is a leading cause of childhood obesity because the ads and promotions lead impressionable kids to then pester their parents to eat what they saw on TV, consumer advocates say. The first lady cited a "cultural shift" taking place in America's eating habits, and highlighted as examples salad bars that are now in many school lunchrooms and kids' restaurant menus that...
  • Meijer offers free youth hunting license statewide for kids 16 and younger

    09/12/2013 5:05:03 PM PDT · by cripplecreek · 26 replies
    FLINT, MI – It’s almost hunting season, and Meijer stores across the state are giving youth hunters the opportunity to get licensed for free on Sept. 13 and 14. For the sixth consecutive year, Meijer has teamed up with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to provide hunters ages 16 and under with free small game, mentored youth and combination licenses for the upcoming hunting seasons. “We hope it’s a nice promotion and it’s a great partnership with Meijer,” said Dennis Fox, the chief of staff for the Department of Natural Resources. “We hope that hunters who may be on...
  • Helping the Kids

    08/03/2013 3:57:50 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 8 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 3, 2013 | Bill O'Reilly
    As President Obama heads for a nice vacation at Martha's Vineyard, a place of wealth, I want him to work on a simple math calculation. One of the major themes of the president's administration is that there is a tremendous problem of "income inequality" in this nation that must be addressed. Obama's solution is to redistribute income using seizure tactics. His plan is to have the federal government provide subsidies for those with low incomes by taking money from business and the affluent. The problem is that high taxation restrains economic expansion and inhibits the country from creating new avenues...
  • Obamacare hurts parents of special-needs children

    08/01/2013 8:49:43 PM PDT · by Nachum · 6 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 8/1/13 | Patrick Howley
    President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, known as “Obamacare,” will make it more difficult for parents of special-needs children to pay for tuition at special schools and to purchase medical equipment, according to a new report. More than 30 million Americans place money into a pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA) through their employers to help save emergency funds to pay for their families’ medical costs. Obamacare institutes a brand new $2,500 cap for FSAs, which will make more money taxable and could raise $13 billion in taxes for the federal government over the next decade. “Before Obamacare passed, there was no...
  • Hearing on "Dreamers" in House Judiciary Committee

    07/23/2013 11:35:02 AM PDT · by OddLane · 41 replies
    Trey Gowdy reciting archetypal "undocumented" sob story.
  • United Kingdom teacher refuses water to kids claiming its 'unfair' to fasting Muslim classmates [UK]

    07/15/2013 8:10:15 PM PDT · by expat1000 · 20 replies
    Your Jewish News ^ | undated | Ryan Lee Hall
    A mother demanded answers after a teacher refused to allow students to drink water in order not to offend fasting Muslim classmates. An angry mother accused a primary school of denying water to children on the hottest days of the year for fear of upsetting Muslim students, who observe Ramadan.
  • ADHD Drugs Don't Boost Kids' Grades

    07/10/2013 1:46:20 PM PDT · by neverdem · 43 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | July 8, 2013 | SHIRLEY S. WANG
    Studies of Children With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Find Little Change It's no longer shocking to hear of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder—and others simply facing a big test—taking ADHD medicine to boost their performance in school. But new studies point to a problem: There's little evidence that the drugs actually improve academic outcomes. Stimulants used to treat ADHD like Ritalin and Adderall are sometimes called "cognitive enhancers" because they have been shown in a number of studies to improve attention, concentration and even certain types of memory in the short-term. Similar drugs were given to World War II soldiers to...
  • Happy Father’s Day, Patriot: I Hope You’re Raising Your Kids to be Righteously Rebellious

    06/16/2013 3:16:36 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 2 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 16, 2013 | Doug Giles
    Hey, Dad. If you’re going to send your kid to a public school or a state run university, then you’ve got to teach your child not to just sit there in class, like a nice boy, and take whatever propaganda the “progressives” shove down their pie hole. The Conservative/traditionalist is the rebel of our day. “The Man” and “The Machine” on campus to rage against is not stodgy traditionalism, but rank socialism and its moral and political vacuity. Meet the new boss — it’s not the same as the old boss. For Dads who want their kids to make a...
  • Russian parliament passes anti-gay bill [Illegal to PROMOTE sodomy to Children]

    06/11/2013 7:13:10 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 14 replies
    Boston.com ^ | 6/11/13
    The lower house of Russia’s parliament has overwhelmingly passed a bill that stigmatizes the gay community and bans the distribution of information about homosexuality to children. The State Duma voted 434-0 with one abstention on Tuesday to approve the Kremlin-backed legislation, which imposes hefty fines for holding gay pride rallies or providing information about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community to minors. The bill still needs to be approved by the appointed upper house and signed into law by President Vladimir Putin, but neither step is in doubt.
  • The Heat Is On

    06/08/2013 4:39:52 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 39 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 8, 2013 | Bill O'Reilly
    So, last Saturday I'm back on the ball field coaching my 9-year-old boy's little league team along with three other fathers. We lose big. Why? Because it was hot. Yes, I know what you're thinking: Wasn't it hot for the other team? Stop with the logic, OK? My team wilted in the fourth inning. In fact, three of the players cried. One missed his mother. I told him the game would be over shortly and she was looking forward to seeing him. He accepted it, but struck out anyway. The right fielder cried when the ball hit his thumb after...
  • Pride Week in Boston: A week of public homosexuality -- with new focus on kids

    06/07/2013 10:01:47 PM PDT · by massmike · 28 replies
    massresistance.org ^ | 06/08/2013 | n/a
    Years ago, Gay Pride Week -- as weird as it was -- was largely only about adults who might dress and act like children. But a disturbing trend in recent years has been to include activities to attract teenagers as young as middle school age. There seems to be a very strong interest by adult activists to get kids involved with the "gay" festivities. For example, last year for the first time, the Boston Pride Committee took over the "Youth Pride" event which was held this year in Boston on May 18 for middle school and high school kids. (We...
  • The Schools' Sinister War on Guns

    06/07/2013 6:39:47 AM PDT · by servo1969 · 26 replies
    americanthinker.com ^ | 6-7-2013 | Selwyn Duke
    The obvious answer here is that the last two decades' school shootings and our civilization's general moral decline have changed the equation. But while this would explain the desire to keep students with real firearms off school grounds, there is no logical reason to apply this to toy guns. Saying otherwise is like claiming that because you wouldn't trust an 11-year-old to drive the family car to school, you won't let him bring toy cars with him, either; or that he won't be allowed to possess toy airplanes because he isn't ready to pilot a 747 for Delta. The same...