Just in time for summer: warning about kids ingesting hyrdocarbons ...
Fewer children are ingesting or coming into contact with harmful levels of gas, lighter fluid and other "hydrocarbons," according to a new Pediatrics study, but the number of related ER visits and...
View ArticleAsthma doesn't stop MN kids from participating in sports ...
Reviewing results of the 2010 Minnesota Student Survey, the health department found that 70 percent of middle and high school students who identified themselves as having asthma also participated in...
View ArticleMN's Top Baby Names of 2012 ...
The Social Security Administration has released the most popular baby names for 2012 by state. For boys, Mason, William, Ethan and Liam were the most common in Minnesota. Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava...
View ArticleEven pros are capable of loony parenting ...
It's always comforting to hear tales of experts in child development who are as capable of loony parenting as the rest of us.
View ArticleMN parents big part of Disney princess petition ...
Disney sure hit a nerve with parents, especially in Minnesota, when it attempted a "makeover" of the rough, bow-wielding Merida character from the cartoon movie Brave into a glossy princess fit for...
View ArticleCool Things Kids Do: Blake players serve up racquets to Edison ...
Even a broken racquet string can be the catalyst to something meaningful. Varsity players from the powerhouse Blake and upstart Minneapolis Edison tennis teams discovered that when they met last week...
View ArticleDo you chat here often? How online meetups are changing marriage
A new study has found that a third of recently married couples met online and that couples who met online were more likely to be in happy, stable relationships.
View ArticleThe online advice parents give that kids never hear ...
77 percent of parents believe they have talked with their kids about proper online behavior, according to a national survey, but only 44 percent of youth ages 10 to 23 would agree. Apparently, a lot of...
View ArticleU prof to study Sesame Street's effort to help kids with jailed parents
A new Sesame Street production, with backing from the White House, is seeking to help preschool and grade-school children deal with the emotional trauma of having parents who are incarcerated.
View ArticleGenetic ruling could affect consumer interest in breast cancer risk test
This week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the ability to patent naturally-occurring DNA and genetic information could impact the decisions of individuals to receive the BRCA genetic tests for...
View ArticleA plea from an economist to get kids outdoors ...
Minneapolis economist Rob Grunewald is known best for the influential paper he co-authored a decade ago that showed that public investments in structured early childhood education have enormous...
View ArticleParents reading to their kids, just not all the time ...
First read of a new Reading is Fundamental survey alarmed me, in that only 33 percent of parents reported reading daily to their children ages 8 and younger and 50 percent reported that their children...
View ArticleBooks before baseball at Willmar Stingers game ...
Players from the Willmar Stingers summer baseball team will read "Flat Stanley at Bat" to hundreds of preschoolers before their Saturday game as part of a campaign to increase literacy and the number...
View ArticleKids and lawn mowers ...
Count the mistakes made in May 2012, when a St. Paul home day-care provider allowed two children in her care to ride on the back of a lawn mower driven by another adult, and then worked in her garden...
View ArticleDuluth injuries show escalator risks for kids ...
Can't you just picture it? A line of day-care kids, all tethered together on a safety rope, going down an escalator when one of the kids gets scared and doesn't get off. All of the kids go tumbling and...
View ArticleAbortions neared record low in Minnesota in 2012 ...
Abortions continue to decline in Minnesota, reaching levels not seen since 1975, the first year the state started keeping track.
View ArticleAbortions neared record low in Minnesota in 2012
Abortions continue to decline in Minnesota, reaching levels not seen since 1975, the first year the state started keeping track.
View ArticleApparently nobody does the car seat thing properly ...
I'll admit, in all of my efforts to ignore the Royal Baby hoopla, I did notice a picture of the young prince in his car seat and thought, "Gee, doesn't the strap on that car seat look a little loose?!"...
View ArticleFinal edition: parenting books I didn't have time to read ...
After a 3-year run, the Daddy-O blog is winding down as I move from the children and families beat at the Star Tribune to the health and medicine beat. Thanks to readers for all of their ideas and...
View ArticleTeen credits newborn screening for life ...
Evan Hromada will never know for sure what life would have been like had his metabolic condition not been detected shortly after birth. The 18-year-old from Edina is simply grateful that he'll never to...
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