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Family News Update: Spoiled Generation All Grown Up, Video Games Distract Kids from School Work, Photos of the Strangest Pet-Walking You’ll Ever See and more
March 19th, 2010
• AND, they’re UGG-ly:
UGG boots are bad for your back and feet (The Toronto Star)
• Wait just a minute! So, you’re suggesting that coddling our kids, passing them even though they should have failed and praising them for fear of offending them with constructive criticism has led to a generation who think they deserve success without hard work? But we just wanted our kids to like us:
Generation Me employees seek gold stars, vacation time (The Toronto Star)
• The grown-up life of a shaken baby:
Assaulted as an infant, violent teen left in limbo (The Toronto Star)
• “Okay honey, go play. But not too much! Take a rest once in a while. But not for too long!”:
Obesity may be a growing problem among children, but so too is over activity (The National Post)
• Who’d have thought the novelty of a new video game system would have taken kids’ attention away from something as riveting as homework?:
Study suggests new video gamers face drop in reading, writing skills at school (Yahoo)
• A must-read for parents with kids who have behavioural/related issues:
Concocting a cure for kids with issues (The New York Times)
• Or, perhaps you’d be happy with a nice cat:
They say: Two kids better than one or none (The San Francisco Chronicle)
• For lack of the usual funny, family-related article to end the week, enjoy this:
20 Moments in Strange Pet Walking (BannedInHollywood)
* NOTE: There’s a photo of a man walking a fish.
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