The news that’s spreading like wildfire on online social networks today such as Twitter, Google+ — and yes, Facebook — is the revamping of Facebook’s news feed.
The website announced the addition of the Subscribe feature last week, but close on its heels was the widespread rollout of a redesign to the main interface of the [...]

One of those who slithered her way through the multihued plastic tubes of a fast-food restaurant playground here one recent morning was not enjoying herself in the least.
“It’s bad,” Erin M. Carr-Jordan said, swab in hand, as she collected samples from a surface that she would later deliver to a lab for microbial testing.
Carr-Jordan, a [...]

The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.
The problems were seen in a study of 60 children randomly assigned to either watch “SpongeBob,” or the slower-paced PBS cartoon “Caillou” or assigned to draw [...]

Three cases of heat-related illness during the back-to-school heat wave are being used to fuel the argument that kids shouldn’t have to be in the classroom before Labor Day.
“The bottom line for me comes down to health and safety,” said Stacy Smith, a parent of two Denver Public Schools students who is petitioning for a [...]

Parents march through DIA with their children in tow. They cue up in line to head through security, fiddling with bags, commanding their kids to take off shoes and even offer up stuffed animals for examination.
That’s his reality, he’s now 10 years old so for him it’s normal … to be more protected,” said one [...]

When Robert Martinich’s 14-year-old son brought home the R-rated movie “Bruno” home from the library this spring, the Highlands Ranch dentist was upset.
Since then, he has been challenging the Douglas County Libraries’ policy of allowing minors to rent R-rated DVDs. Currently, the library system does not restrict what a child can check out unless a [...]

An interview with Dr. Jeffrey I. Dolgan, Senior Psychologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado
Q: How can parents help their children choose good friends?
A: Parents need to find out who is in their child’s peer group. You can get a good idea about the other kids by making connections with their families. I suggest hosting something to [...]

With the ten year anniversary of September 11th looming near, many parents may be wondering what to tell their children about that infamous day. Most of today’s school age kids were either very young children or not yet born when the attacks occurred. They likely don’t have their own memories of the day, but have [...]

It’s no secret that schools are hurting for cash. Parent volunteers are stepping up as best they can, and schools turn to fundraisers to help bridge the gap between the Have and the Want, or in some cases, the Need.
(Stock photo by muresan113)
I do not begrudge the schools for doing fundraisers, and kudos to the [...]

Ominous title, isn’t it? And attention-grabbing, I hope.
It’s also true. At least, I’m pretty confident in that prediction…or as confident as you can be in predicting about the future. You take what you know and fill in the blanks with best guesses.
You’re probably thinking…. “But, HOW do you know how you’re going [...]