The swine flu has claimed its first fatal victim in the US – a 23-month old baby in Texas. The current official CDC count of confirmed cases in the US is 91 in 10 states.
The earliest confirmed case of swine flu in Mexico, referred by doctors a patient “zero”, is a 5-year old boy in [...]
Tags: children, epidemic, preparations, swine flu, Texas, toddler
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Ask me to recite just about any Dr. Seuss book (or Fancy Nancy, or Eric Carle) and I’ll probably be able to do it from memory. Do you want to know the lyrics to a Veggie Tales song? How about the Imagination Movers? It’s all stored in my head, and I don’t think it’s [...]
Tags: books, DVDs, learning, music, over and over, repetion, songs, TV, videos
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We live in a large city near the beach in the southern US. Crime isn’t rampant, but it does happen. I have to admit that as my pregnancy progresses, I worry a little bit about my personal safety, especially since my husband is away with business a lot.
I am very aware of the fact that [...]
Tags: Crime, personal safety, Safety, safety plan, toddler
Posted in: Pregnancy
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There was a time when bilingualism was being frowned about. When a friend of mine from Asia migrated to Scotland with her two children about 15 years ago, the teachers at the local school told her to stop talking to her kids in their mother tongue, but rather stick to English. The reasons given were [...]
Tags: bilingual, bilingual babies, bilingualism, cognitive enhancement, languages
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There is another hero named among us. Charles Schulze–not the famous cartoonist, but a previously unknown citizen from Florida–saved not one, but two, children on Saturday, in exchange for his own life.
Two boys, aged 12 and 9, were caught in a riptide at an unsupervised portion of Pompano Beach, Florida. Riptides are dangerous ocean currents [...]
Tags: CPR, drown, Florida, hero, Pompano Beach, red cross, riptide, swim
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