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Deceptive Marketing in Kids’ Food Can Fool Parents Too
Studies have been out for years reflecting on the numerous amount of food advertisements that consumers are bombarded with everyday, most of which market extremely unhealthy products. More importantly, advocacy groups continue to debate the vast number of ads that are directed towards children encouraging sugary, fatty foods through enticing and clever commercials. Kids are easily swayed to choose food based on how they are packaged.
How to Save Your Kid from Drowning
Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, are rarely seen in real life.
The Stranger You Know: How to Spot a Child Molester’s Tricks
Think you would be able to tell if a molester was using deceptive grooming techniques to gain access to your child? In many instances, the red flags can practically be under our noses. Yet often, parents who learn that their child has been victimized will share the same reaction I had no idea He was so nice He didnt look like a molester.
How to Make Lollipops From Jolly Ranchers
Homemade candies are popping up all over the internet and they look adorable and delicious but let’s be real, most people don’t already own a candy thermometer, and nothing’s more frustrating than chipping hardened corn syrup out of the inside of a pot. When it comes down to it, homemade candy is deceptively difficult, messy, and time consuming. Not anymore though!
Domestic Violence and The Holidays
We hear a lot about family violence spiking during Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. (The same stat gets spread about Superbowl Sunday.) There’s a degree of accuracy to the widespread reportage – in some place, 911 calls do rise, and most shelters are full on Christmas. We should worry about family violence, because 1 in…