March 4th, 2010
• “It’s not what it looks like honey. I’m only wearing them because they’re comfortable and stylish.”:
Men sex it up with high heels (The Toronto Star)
• Lesson of the day for teens in chat rooms: if someone claiming to be one of the Jonas Brothers asks you to take off your clothes, it’s probably not really one of the Jonas Brothers:
Chatroulette craze brings out the Web cam creeps (The Toronto Star)
• The notion of raising a genius by plopping them in front of some DVD’s for hours, while intriguing and requiring no actual parenting, has been refuted:
More evidence they should take the Einstein out of Baby Einstein (ParentCentral/The Toronto Star)
• Lunch money everywhere is once again safe:
Children less likely to be bullied by peers; school programs credited: US survey (Yahoo)
• In case of emergency:
Mouth-to-mouth with CPR best for kids: Study (CBC)
• Do Flintstone vitamins count?:
Parents give kids vitamins but don’t always tell doctor: study (The Montreal Gazette)
• It’s one thing when your society has a problem with children having sex. It’s another when you start marketing to them:
Extra small condoms for 12-year-old boys go on sale in Switzerland (The Telegraph)