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October 5, 2012
“I’d like to eat healthy food, but those stores are just too expensive.” I hear that over and over again, and it’s true. Some of those stores that boast of delicious, abundant produce, grass-fed beef and fresh-caught fish, are indeed expensive, but you do have some other options. Certainly the solution is not to turn to junk food, which may not cost much now, but what about the later costs of diabetes, obesity, prescription medications, doctors’ bills? When you consider how expensive these could be, eating wholesome food might seem pretty cheap. Here are 10 easy ways you can keep yourself and...
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October 4, 2012
A mom arrested for letting her two children play outside? Isn’t that what kids are supposed to do? Yes. you read that right. Tammy Cooper was arrested last week and thrown into jail because her two kids, ages 6 and 9, were playing outside. The youngsters weren’t vandalizing, or causing any kind of trouble. They were riding their scooters around the neighborhood. Bad idea. It’s not the first time. Earlier this year, a community in Florida decided to prohibit anyone under age 18 from going outside unsupervised by an adult. If you’re a kid at Ole Village in Lely Resort, Collier County, Florida,...
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June 22, 2012
by Judy Molland at care2.com Earlier this year, Care2′s Kristina Chew wrote about the widening gap between rich and poor students in schools across the U.S. over the past few decades and how, as a result, the gap in standardized test scores between affluent and low-income students has grown by 40 percent since the 1960′s. Now comes a report that demonstrates exactly how this works. If you thought that children receive different educational advantages, depending on where they live, you are absolutely correct. Wealth Has Outsized Effect On Education 24/7 Wall St. analyzed Census data from 2006...
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June 21, 2012
by Kristina Chew at care2.com Morgen Kann Warten — German for Tomorrow Can Wait — is a Kickstarter project about traveling with an autistic child in Europe. Scott and Monika Knight (who live in Berlin) describe their travels all over Europe — Thessaloniki in Greece, Nice and Paris in France, Dublin and Connemara in Ireland, Stockholm and the south of Sweden, Prague in the Czech Republic, to name a few — with their now-11-year-old autistic son, John. As they write : Severely autistic people aren’t primarily known as globetrotters. They like routines and familiar surroundings. Our son John,...
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April 30, 2012
by Judy Molland A community in Florida is prohibiting anyone under age 18 from going outside unsupervised by an adult. That’s right: if you’re a kid at Ole Village in Lely Resort, Collier County, Florida, that means no bike riding, no walking to the bus stop, no being outside at all, without an adult. Some parents say their kids are under house arrest. Actually this isn’t like house arrest. This is house arrest. And since I spend much of my time encouraging kids and their parents to Get Out and enjoy the many benefits of the outdoors, this rule seems sacrilegious to me. Ten-year-old Yousif...
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April 16, 2012
by Judy Molland Britain’s National Trust, an organization that preserves outdoor spaces as well as historic buildings in the UK, earlier this year announced a campaign to improve people’s links with nature and wildlife. Photo by Design by Nicola The Trust’s director general Fiona Reynolds said that in particular, children needed freedom to discover nature for themselves, stating her belief that more children go to hospital having fallen out of bed than having fallen out of a tree. Now we are finding out more details about this campaign. The National Trust has come up with 50 things for...
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