I’m a complete hypochondriac.  I think this is because I read too much, and I’m far too aware of stories where people have a headache, then they’re dead.  So, I rely on a couple different websites to help me keep myself in check.  They’re mostly successful at this, since I can look up “headache” and [...]

This is the story, published yesterday in the Schenectady Daily Gazette, of a man whose 13-year-old son was out of control. Stealing, fighting, bullying, hitting girls… lots of really awful stuff.  This kid was going down the wrong road.  His parents are divorced, and the boy was suspended for stealing things out of teachers’ purses [...]

Fisher Price has recalled the 3-in-1 high chair because the back of the seat can detatch with the child still in it and allow the child to fall out.  They’ve gotten one report of a child falling out of the chair and getting a skull fracture when that happened.  This 3-in-1 high chair is a [...]

I don’t think that kids are any worse nowadays than they were when I was a kid or my grandparents were kids (parents and parenting may be worse, but that’s another post).  So, I don’t think they’re more inclined to cheat. But I do think they maybe define cheating differently than adults do. I found [...]

We’re a fairly healthy family.   I mean, our kids have the regular complement of ear infections, flu, strep, allergies and injuries, but besides that, we don’t have too many other things going on.  Nevertheless, our medicine cabinet looks like it belongs in a pharmacy; between the five of us, we have so many bottles of so [...]