Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Texting May Be Taking a Toll
They do it late at night when their parents are asleep.
They do it late at night when their parents are asleep.
Readers of Adventures in Babywearing, a blog for parents, got an up-close look at the Ergo, a $135 embroidered baby carrier in a shade called “organic blue” in a May 14 post on the site.
The Facebook group entitled “For the love of god–don’t let parents join Facebook” has 5,819 high school and college-aged members who want to stop the growing number of parents who are joining Facebook, the massively popular social-networking site, from “spying” on them.
Parents of videogaming children, take heart: Your kid is not destined to become an anti-social hermit who lives at home until he’s 35. In fact, a new study shows that all that game time could actually be making him a better citizen.
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