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Parents Beware: Bounce House Injuries on the Rise!
Yikes! Is a classic bit of birthday fun ending in too many bumps, bruises and broken bones? The number of kids hurt while using inflatable bounce houses and moonwalks has risen dramatically since 1995, according to a new study published in Pediatrics. Researchers found that the injury rate has risen a staggering 1,500% in the past 15 years. Between 1995 and 2010, nearly 65,000 children were treated for bounce house related injuries,with the years between 2008 and 2010 seeing a doubling of the injury rate.
Prepare Your Kids for Summer Burglary Season
Nearly 2 million home burglaries are reported in the United States each year, and the majority of these burglaries occur in the summer months. The scariest part of this statistic for parents is the summertime rise in home break-ins typically correlates with when their children are home without an adult. A recent U.S. Census Bureau…
The Last Thing You Want To Hear At 1 AM
Your house alarm system is triggered in the middle of the night, you’re home alone with your kids. Quick. What do you do? 321go.The answer, probably, is that it depends. There is a decision process that happens in a matter of seconds and there some things worth considering, should you find yourself in this situation, as I did last week.As a little background: I took a course (NLS) to …
Maybe We All Need to “Lean In”
I spent the weekend wallowing in the media blitz that broke on Friday as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandbergs new book, Lean In, hit the headlines, along with her goal of raising the consciousness of working women everywhere. My first observation: Woo hoo!
How Much Would You Make if Motherhood was a Paid Position?
Ive always had a hunch that I am being grossly underpaid. After all, shouldnt I be more flush given that by 9 p.m. each night Im so wiped that my body feels like its been mowed down by a Mack truck and I need a triple shot of espresso just to get me moving in the morning.