-Children from Planck's Constant Archives

Posted on December 11, 2011 10:37 PM

Researchers from Greenpeace and IPEN, which campaigns against chemical pollutants, bought 500 toys and children's products in five Chinese cities in November, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong

A wide range of toys and children’s products made in China, including those sold by reputable American brands, apparently contained either lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, antimony or chromium.

Read the Rest: Chinese Toxic Toys

Posted on March 22, 2011 09:56 PM

There is a difference between making fun of someone and bullying. There is a difference between laughing at someone who slips on a banana peel and a bully who purposely pushes someone down. When I was in school, children knew the difference between bullying and teasing. If a child farts in class, it is appropriate that kids laugh at the offending gasbag, otherwise we will have children farting everywhere all day long. However, once the incident is over the laughter should stop.

Read the Rest: Bullied Kid Did Right in Fighting Back

Posted on February 11, 2011 10:25 PM

Spotsylvania High School student Andrew Mikel II, 14, blew these pellets at students.

"What happened to Andrew Mikel is an example of how oppressive zero-tolerance policies have become," said John W. Whitehead, president of the institute. "School officials have developed a very dangerous mind-set that allows virtually no freedom for students, while at the same time criminalizing childish behavior."

Read the Rest: Zero-Tolerance Policies Should Not Be in Schools

Posted on September 3, 2010 06:41 PM

Today we live a more complicated life, with multiple jobs, multiple wake-up alarms, dozens of to-do lists, digital calendars, and terabytes of information to suck into our brain. If you are like me, you rarely wake up at the same time every day. If a client of mine in India needs to talk to me at 4 in the afternoon then I have to set my clock in New Jersey to alarm at 5:30 in the morning.

Read the Rest: How to Wake up the Kids

Posted on February 5, 2010 06:27 PM

In most countries around the world sleeping with your baby is the norm, not the exception. As a consequence, the incidence of SIDS in these countries is only a tiny fraction of what it is in the US where about 50% of parents do not sleep with their children.

Read the Rest: Reading My Blog Saves Lives

Posted on December 17, 2009 09:41 PM

I have a brother-in-law whose name is Robert. But you cannot call him Rob, Bobby, Bob, or Robbie. He only answers to Robert.

Read the Rest: Call Me Bob

Posted on October 27, 2009 02:55 PM

You may not believe this, but there will be at least one black mother who will permit her black son to go out at the dead of night unaccompanied and dressed as a black cat carrying a black treat bag. If you hit this child, Al Sharpton will make it his business to call you a racist and blame you for the accident and not the mother.

Read the Rest: Halloween Safety for Kids

Posted on September 9, 2009 03:23 PM

Before I discuss children fainting, let me first say: take your kid to the doctor. I write "doctor" rather than "health care professional" because you may be reading this a few years from now and if Obama gets his Health Care Bill passed the term "health care professional" will mean a government idiot bureaucrat although I am being redundant.

Read the Rest: Syncope: Why Kids Faint

Posted on September 1, 2009 08:15 PM

When I moved from New York City at age 7 (1952) to Bayonne, New Jersey, I was supposed to go into the second grade. Sadly, the first grade in New York City schools at that time did not cover spelling or even the alphabet. It seems the school administrators in Bayonne knew this because they asked me to spell apple.

Read the Rest: The Meaning of Bridal

Posted on August 17, 2009 02:20 PM

In the early 1990s I raised thousands of pet mice as a hobby. You can learn much about human behavior by observing mice. A mother mouse will often eat her young if she copulates with a new lover.

Read the Rest: Filicide and Licensing Parents

Posted on October 2, 2008 12:24 PM

Hey, Bernie, I read your article, Young Children Should never be spanked and I couldn't agree with you more. I have tried other methods to control my kids when they have one of 'those moments.'

Read the Rest: Tough Love vs Spanking

Posted on August 20, 2007 11:06 PM

Mothers sleep better if they sleep with their babies because the baby cries less, nursing is easier, and the baby goes to sleep faster and easier (allowing mother to get more sleep)

Read the Rest: Because that is how my parents did it

Posted on December 26, 2006 04:08 PM

Let me tell you who is the sexual pervert in this case: the teacher's aide. Unless the child slipped his face between her naked b**bs and did a motorboat and then slapped her face with his p*nis a few times - it is not sexual harassment. This is a four year old doing what all four year olds like to do: hug and show affection.

Read the Rest: Young Children cannot be sexual predators

Posted on December 19, 2006 04:41 AM

There's a reason they call it a pacifier. It quiets down your kids. There is a reason that the world is filled with crying, bawling, yelling, irritating, and whining liberals. Their parents didn't give them a binky. One can find more than enough examples on the web of parents asking for advice on how to wrest a binky from their poor children as if they were taking heroin or in possession of stolen property.