Guess I’ll reconsider bunk beds for my son. Considering they send nearly 36,000 kids a year to emergency rooms according to a study in this month’s journal Pediatrics. Sure, most injuries aren’t serious, but who wants to go to wait in the ER in the middle of the night? Researchers …
The New York Times reported a study finding kids learn math better with abstract rather than concrete examples. Sounds counter to the new math program. I’m reading the results and will post later…
Tara Parker-Pope takes on the hard plastics (bisphenol-a or BPA) in baby bottles and other items in today’s Science section of The New York Times. The health blogger/journalist answers a few basic questions bothering parents. Like, what is the evidence that BPA is dangerous? Her expert, Dr. Michael D. Shelby, …
The latest entry in the autism controversey…A large-scale study conducted by the CDC did not find a link between early exposure to mercury (in the form of the preservative thimerosal used in vaccines) and neurological problems in 7 to 10 year olds. It will be published this week in The …
So the summer hiatus has ended. I’m thinking of writing much briefer reports on the blog. Any ideas about the topics you find most fascinating that aren’t being addressed? Or at least not in any meaningful or objective manner? What do you, as parents, really want to discuss in the …