Our Kids provides the education, camp, and parenting headlines you should know.
Be sure you know what your kids are being fed at the daycare. A Toronto catering company that claims to have fed one million of the “highest-quality” meals to Ontario children is a fly-by-night operation working out of a fast-food restaurant!
Never mind that kids are being fed… Be sure you know what your kids are drinking! Apparently it’s easier for minors to illegally buy a six-pack of beer at an LCBO or The Beer Store outlet in Ontario than it is for them to buy a pack of cigarettes from a chain convenience store
On the same note, lets talk about energy drinks: “Children never need energy drinks,” said Dr. Holly Benjamin, of the American Academy of Pediatrics, who worked on the new report.
Remember the H1N1 vaccine that the government was urging everyone to get? Well now, GlaxoSmithKline is investigating a link between the vaccine and sleep disorder in children.
Environmental guilt trips: Can kids handle the truth? At what point do they need to know the truth?
Did you hear? The US Senate kills a private school tax credit! “Our priorities should be for our tax-supported public education that is available for all our children,” Democrat REpresentative Joan Welsh of Rockport said
In addition, here are some of my personal favorites articles recently featured on our site. News Flash-Back
The Simple Act of Reaching Out Makes a Difference. Know it, I know it, but do we really take the time to do it?
Our very own editor, Christl Dabu, gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to chat with Obama’s sister while vacationing in Hawaii!
Misunderstood and Forgotten, Off-Reserve Aboriginal Youth Need New Solutions
The Value of Value of Visiting a Museum – When was the last time you took the kids to the museum?
Five Ways to Encourage Children to Eat Healthy – I stumbled on this oldie just as I was wondering what to give the kids for dinner tonight.
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