Farm Living Could Arm Kids Against Asthma: Kids who grow up on traditional farms are 30% to 50% less likely than other children to develop asthma, a new study shows. But it’s not the fresh country air. It’s the germs. (USA Today) BOB Strollers Recalled Over Strangulation Risk: More than 350,000 ...

Parents Without Parents: Allison Gilbert misses her parents. They both died before their grandchildren could remember them and every day she realizes anew that the loss was not hers alone, but also her son’s and her daughter’s. There is a hole in her parenting, she believes, where her own parents ...

By now I’m sure most everyone has heard about the half billion eggs being recalled by a couple of Iowa farms. So far, about 2,000 people have reportedly become sick, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Food and Drug Administration only says hundreds were sickened. But while driving to ...

I always knew that eating too much junk food – or cereal for that matter – could make you sick to your stomach. But how about getting sick before eating Apple Jacks or Froot Loops? Apparently, something has gone wrong with the packaging of some Kellogg’s cereal packages, which are ...

When my wife was pregnant with Seth, we did what a lot of families do: we went to Babies R Us and picked out our favorite crib. We wanted a drop-side convertible so that it would grow with our child. A relative bought us the crib, but it never made ...

In the I can’t-believe-this-happened category, McDonald’s is recalling 12 million Shrek classes because they contain toxic cadmium, reports The Wall Street Journal. While McDonald’s claims the glasses are within safety levels, the company decided to play it safe after an anonymous tip to U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif, revealed the ...

The last week of school crushed all life out of me. Here’s a round up of some news you may have missed: This Recall of Kids Drugs Keeps Getting Stranger Just what was going on at that Pennsylvania plant that made children’s Tylenol? Apparently the plant had been shrinking its ...

The good news for parents keeps on coming. Here is another round up: Wal-Mart Pulls Cadmium-Laced Jewelry The world’s largest retailer responded to an Associated Press report by pulling its entire line of Miley Cyrus necklaces from shelves because of cadmium contamination, reports The Associated Press via The Washington Post. ...

The last few days have been overloaded with parenting-related stories. Consider all that has been happening: CPSC Recalls 1.8 Million Dart Guns After Deaths It’s been three years since a 9-year-old Chicago boy choked on a toy dart, but it took to Monday for the 1.8 millions sets to be ...

I’m going to be blunt here: Pamper’s sucks. More correctly, Procter and Gamble sucks. I say that even though my kids no longer wear diapers. Besides the fact that we never could abide by the way that brand’s products stunk to high heaven, it would take about 12 hours of ...