Here’s a quick reminder for those planning their Thanksgiving Freas: Home fires spike on the holiday due to cooking mishaps, and one of the main causes is people deep-frying their turkeys. Done improperly, this can cause an explosion that seriously … Continue reading →
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain Modern parents may not realize it, but the 9-month school calendar is a throwback to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when children were needed as free labor … Continue reading →
A mother in Colorado reports her 5-year-okd daugher missing. Police issue an Amber Alert, frantically searching for the missing girl, assuming she was abducted. While this happens all too often in these cases, the danger was not somewhere out there, … Continue reading →
Sixteen-year-old Corian Evans, a Black teen, broke the rules and stayed out past his curfew, and three teenage girls are alive because of it. He was hanging out with friends below a highway (which I guess is what teens do … Continue reading →
Contributed As anticipated, last week the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen to strike down New York State’s limits on concealed weapon permits. The law required applicants show “proper cause” and … Continue reading →
An investigation into potential bacterial contamination has shut down a plant that makes baby formula. This, combined with other supply chain problems, has led to a shortage of infant formula. As many as 40% of stores are completely out of … Continue reading →
Sometimes, real life truly is stranger than fiction. This is especially the case wherever children and safety issues come together. One of these stories really happened. The other two were we pulled out of our overactive imagination. Can you tell … Continue reading →
Should murder be legal? It may seem like a silly question with an equally obvious answer. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t so obvious to the gun lobby, who for many years now have been tirelessly working to redefine cold-blooded killings as … Continue reading →
Most people have seen the Child’s Play movies, featuring a murderous serial-killer reincarnated in the body of an animated Chucky doll. It’s a fictional movie of course, but sometimes science fiction seeps into real life. See if you can guess … Continue reading →
MRSA, chicken pox, strep throat, pink eye, the flu – children are pretty much a walking Petri dish of potential pathogens. Yet ironically enough, the one dreaded bug every child fears the most is the one that doesn’t actually exist: … Continue reading →
