http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:59:48 -0700 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:26:06 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m11d19-ACLU-sues-school-for-sexy-slumber-party-suspentions?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner Photo and story from ABC news Remember that joke from back in second grade: What's grosser than gross? How about a high school principal suspending two teen athletes from all extra-curricular activities for posting "racy" (wherein racy mea... Sexism Schools Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:26:06 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m11d19-ACLU-sues-school-for-sexy-slumber-party-suspentions?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Questionable-toys-09-part-deux?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner Indoor flying duck hunt game. If you want your children to learn hunting skills, take them hunting. Hunting is, after all, a much better choice than buying factory farmed meat. And if you want your children to learn shooting skills, take th... Toys Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:07:17 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Questionable-toys-09-part-deux?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d31-Questionable-toys-09?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner I saw the first Christmas commercial of the year this morning, so I guess the buying season is upon us. Which, of course, means that out of the crop of new toys there are going to be a few horrors. So far, there hasn't been anything like last ... Toys Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:51:10 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d31-Questionable-toys-09?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Today-in-costumes?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner Are killjoy schools ruining Halloween? That appears to be the latest meme, with news anchors and columnists alike tisk-tisking school rules that ban weapons, gore, "sexy" renditions of traditional costumes, and whatnot. On the one h... Culture Halloween Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:10:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Today-in-costumes?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Honesty-in-advertising-at-the-OBGYN?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner The sign posted at the Aspen Women's Center telling patients to shut it or go elsewhere. An OB practice in Utah has decided to be refreshingly upfront with pregnant women crossing their threshold: The doctors have posted a sign in front of their pr... Health Pregnancy Birthing rights Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:01:28 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Honesty-in-advertising-at-the-OBGYN?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d15-Link-found-between-tongue-piercings-and-brain-abscess-death?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner via Wikimedia Heads up for parents of piercing teens: the Archives of Neurology has reported a case of a man who died of brain abscess caused by his tongue piercing. This article is a little on the "Gosh, kids these days"/pearl clutching s... Health Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:35:51 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d15-Link-found-between-tongue-piercings-and-brain-abscess-death?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d12-Hospital-forces-Csection-because-of-staff-shortage?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner Szabo, by Mary Forney via the Lake Powell Chronicle Health care reform is a subject so huge that even with months of non-stop coverage there are any number of issues that won't show up in debates. It's not surprising, then, that pregnancy and birthi... Pregnancy Birthing rights Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:10:32 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d12-Hospital-forces-Csection-because-of-staff-shortage?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Placenta-Teddy-Bear?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner What? Don't you want to give your kid nightmares? And here I was thinking that coming down with the creeping crud was the sign that this week has gotten off to a bad start, but I honestly think seeing this is even worse. And I say that as someone wh... Toys Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:40:18 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Placenta-Teddy-Bear?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d28-Superfetation-is-the-word-of-the-week?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner Julia and Todd Grovenburg on the Today show It's tempting to make snarky remarks about what might be in the water in Arkansas: First the Duggars, and now an Arkansan woman who possibly conceived twice in the space of a little over two weeks. It is... Health Pregnancy Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:00:01 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d28-Superfetation-is-the-word-of-the-week?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d23-FDA-bans-sale-of-flavored-cigarettes?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner My (former, I guess) brand, via smokinacecigars.blogspot.com So Tuesday was a sad day for Goth kids across the land: that's when the FDA ban on flavored cigarettes went into effect. I know that local stores were experiencing  a run on them last... Health Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:02:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d23-FDA-bans-sale-of-flavored-cigarettes?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d16-Spanking-babies-causes-aggressive-toddlers?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner Photo from this article A study covered in the latest issue of Child Development shows that corporal punishment of babies can cause aggression and even congnitive delays in toddlers. I'm not particularly surprised by those findings (except maybe the... Parenting Discipline Toddlers Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:30:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d16-Spanking-babies-causes-aggressive-toddlers?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d15-Parenthood-makes-men-conservative-women-liberal?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner Via Salon, an interesting study out of North Carolina State University found that motherhood tends to make women more liberal, but fatherhood makes men more conservative. This isn't necessarily my experience, but then, most of the parents, men and wo... Parenting Politics Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:34:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d15-Parenthood-makes-men-conservative-women-liberal?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d11-Sex-Ed-fail-from-the-Obama-administration?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner From the new commercial Remember how earlier this year I got all excited about the Obama administration cutting funding to Abstinence Only education plans? I was thrilled to think that maybe we would start steering American education towards a realit... Parenting Rasing teens Education Sex Ed Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:56:42 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d11-Sex-Ed-fail-from-the-Obama-administration?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Stranger-allegedly-hits-toddler-in-Walmart?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner Roger Stevens, who allegedly slapped a crying child in a Walmart in Stone Mountain, Georgia   We've all witnessed this scene before (at least if we've shopped at Walmart -- I honestly think that they deliberately set up a sensory assault that m... News Discipline Legal Issues Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:03:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Stranger-allegedly-hits-toddler-in-Walmart?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d8-More-high-school-strip-searches?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner I guess some people are not paying enough attention to Supreme Court rulings that directly address their lives:  Last month, officials at Atlantic High School in Iowa thought it would be a swell idea to strip search five teenage girls after one... News Schools Legal Issues Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:43:30 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d8-More-high-school-strip-searches?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d3-Pole-dancer-doll?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner I'm not sure I even have the words for this. Someone, somewhere, decided it was a really good idea to make a pole-dancing doll for little kids -- and as far as I can tell it really is being marketed to kids. The doll rotates around, and up and down,... Sexism Racism Toys Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:07:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d3-Pole-dancer-doll?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d1-19th-arrow-for-the-Duggar-quiver?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner Duggar family on the Today Show, September 1, 2009 Oi. What else to say about the Duggars announcing that Michelle is expecting their nineteenth baby? Even Meredith Viera seemed hard-pressed to keep her delighted mien in place while interviewing the... TV Culture Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:03:12 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d1-19th-arrow-for-the-Duggar-quiver?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m8d31-Doctors-okay-liquids-in-labor-woman-imprisioned-for-disobeying-doctors-orders?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner Telling picture by http://www.msidata.com/paul/ Last week The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists(ACOG) magnanimously decided to "allow" laboring women to take clear liquids during labor, instead of limiting them to ice chi... Health Pregnancy Legal Issues Birthing rights Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:32:48 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m8d31-Doctors-okay-liquids-in-labor-woman-imprisioned-for-disobeying-doctors-orders?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m8d26-Go-Ask-Your-Mother-Finding-quality-time-in-hectic-days?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner This is the face my son makes about having to ride in an uncoolminivan. He still speaks to me when driving, though. I work a fairly high stressed job, and my children are so busy with school, activities and social lives. I feel like the only time I... Parenting Family Life Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:50:55 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m8d26-Go-Ask-Your-Mother-Finding-quality-time-in-hectic-days?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m8d19-Breastfeeding-doll-knots-knickers?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner So while I was away getting more than my fair share of Vitamin D and boating with dolphins, I missed several incidents in the world of parenting. I'm not one to leave to leave a story untold just because it's old, though, so I'm currently going thro... Toys Lactivism Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:07:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-233-Denver-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m8d19-Breastfeeding-doll-knots-knickers?cid=exrss-Denver-Parenting-Examiner