1 Oct 07 -
AFTER much deliberation and comparative shopping, we decided on a white, wooden crib for the baby. It's been assembled, positioned and dressed with a protective, padded bumper featuring a bear wearing a night cap with a pom pom. Crib...
1 Oct 07 -
PATTY TUCKER knows exactly what the safety experts are talking about: teenagers are at higher risk than other drivers. Her two oldest children had crashes as new drivers. One of the accidents involving her daughter, Sarah, occurred at...
1 Oct 07 -
THE family meal may be threatened with extinction but "high-tech" parents are now communicating much better with their teenagers and giving them more freedom, says child psychologist Richard Woolfson. Long gone are the days when...
1 Oct 07 -
LAST weekend at a dinner party, a two-year-old named Auggie, whose parents had not, in the end, found a sitter, bewitched the grown-ups upon his arrival. Scrambling up the sofa in his Crocs, he flung himself with glee from couch to...
13 Aug 07 -
LEBANON'S Shi'ite group Hezbollah celebrates this week the anniversary of its "divine victory" in its war with Israel, as the country remains paralysed by deep political and economic crises. "This is a great Lebanese national...
25 Jun 07 -
THE decision to place a child in an independent school in the UK is not one to be taken lightly. With fees for a day place starting at around £17,000 ($52,000) a year and HMC boarding schools charging in excess of £23,000, one...
25 Jun 07 -
MALAYSIA'S Cabinet has decided to ban fast food commercials on children's television programmes, said the Malaysian Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek. He said fast food companies would also be banned from sponsoring such...
25 Jun 07 -
VIOLENCE at schools in immigrant-dominated districts of Berlin has soared in recent months, with the opposition Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU) accusing the city government of turning a blind eye to the violence at the city's...
25 Jun 07 -
CANADIAN students could soon be graduating from "Taco Bell High" or "Wal-Mart Public School" if trustees here go ahead with a scheme to sell school naming rights to corporations to raise extra funds. The proposal has...
18 Jun 07 -
THE lesson began with the striking of a Tibetan singing bowl to induce mindful awareness. With the sound of their new school bell, the fifth graders at Piedmont Avenue Elementary School here closed their eyes and focused on their...
