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Ugly Shoes Also Dangerous?

Child gets foot stuck in escalator due to the Croc brand shoes she was wearing. Most disturbing is this: CPSC is aware of 77 entrapment incidents since January 2006, with about half resulting in...

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No Child Left Behind Harms High Performers

Apparently all the focus and attention that schools are now providing to “low-achieving” students is resulting in less attention and care to the high-achievers. “This is like sports, ? said Chester E....

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Girl Overturns Grounding in Court

Is this a joke? I sure hope so.

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Lego Candy – A Lawsuit in the Making

Now they have lego block candies and some people aren’t too happy about it. I just spent the first three years of my sons life trying to get him not to eat blocks, and now you’re telling him they taste...

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Ads Scare Parents Into Tagging Kids With Tracking Devices

Privacy nuts like me have been warning people for years that tracking and tagging of all people will start with the kids. It's easy to teach people to accept personal tracking devices by giving it to...

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Safe Search Engine For Kids

If you’ve been caught by surprise doing web searches with your kids and found something you really didn’t want to explain, maybe Ask.com’s new kid-safe search is worth checking out.

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Child Predators Shifting to Blackmail

It seems that online predators are getting tired of savvy kids that know better than to be lured (or they’re just getting lazy/impatient). Either way, one police group is warning that predators are...

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TSA Nudie Scanners May Violate Child Porn Laws

Source:Guardian.co.ukEPIC has been fighting what they call Whole Body Imaging for a while now, but this is an interesting new twist. I never thought about this before, but taking a nude scan of a minor...

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Man Hunts and Beats Teen for Mocking Him Online

For anyone who's participated in forums, online games, or any other system where you can communicate with random strangers, you've probably encountered people who make you angry. Some are just people...

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How to Get Easter Egg Dye off Your Hands

Why are there so many top ranked answers for how to get the dye out of your or your kids' hands that just don't help? Dishsoap? Baking soda or toothpaste plus lots of scrubbing? Feh. Well, consider...

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GPS Tracking Watch for Parents

Track your kids in real-time online with GPS Here's a tool for you ultra-paranoid: a GPS watch you can make your kids wear. Parents can see the location of their child on Google maps by clicking 'where...

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Kids and Computers

[Source] Put a kid on a computer and all kinds of interesting issues arise. First there's the problem of clutter, as yours and their files and pictures intermingle, making it near impossible to find...

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Web Publishing and Kids

18 and partying... do you want to broadcast this?Did you know that once your kids graduate high school or college, they're going to need to find a job? It's true! Did you also know that employers can...

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5 Minutes Posing as a 14-year-old On Social Site

A police official in the UK signed up a new account with a girls name and used data and a photo that suggested he was a 14 year old girl. Within 90 seconds, a middle-aged man wanted to perform a sex...

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Girl Overturns Grounding in Court

It wasn't me!(Image used under: Creative Commons 2.0 [SRC]) Is this a joke? I sure hope so.

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Lego Candy – A Lawsuit in the Making

Lego(Image used under: Creative Commons 2.0 [SRC]) Now they have lego block candies and some people aren't too happy about it. I just spent the first three years of my sons life trying to get him not...

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Ugly Shoes Also Dangerous?

(Image used under: Creative Commons 3.0 [SRC]) Child gets foot stuck in escalator due to the Croc brand shoes she was wearing. Most disturbing is this: CPSC is aware of 77 entrapment incidents since...

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No Child Left Behind Harms High Performers

(Image is used under the Pixabay license) Apparently all the focus and attention that schools are now providing to "low-achieving" students is resulting in less attention and care to the...

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Kids and Computers

Put a kid on a computer and all kinds of interesting issues arise. First there's the problem of clutter as yours and their files and pictures intermingle making it near impossible to find what you...

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Web Publishing and Kids

18 and partying... do you want to broadcast this?Did you know that once your kids graduate high school or college, they're going to need to find a job? It's true! Did you also know that employers can...

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