It happens every July: Someone in my local mom group makes a post questioning the school supply lists. They want to know why they’re responsible for sending in two packs of pencils or six glue sticks. They want to know why they have to buy tissues and Clorox wipes for a classroom. And they really...
Win McNamee/Getty Images News/Getty Images This week, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education (ED), Agriculture (USDA), Justice (DoJ), and Labor (DoL) sent notice that the federal government will be curbing what they deem as “benefits” for “illegal aliens,” including public health programs that receive certain government grants, career and technical education programs, and...
Picture Alliance/Getty Images Lately, I’ve been having a weird sense of déjà vu. Because haven’t we already been through a small stuffed animal craze before and learned that they’re not, in fact, worth getting our panties in a twist over? Did we not learn our lesson from the rise and subsequent fall of Beanie Babies...
Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images The kids are all right… for the most part. And we know that in part thanks to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS… not exactly a catchy acronym, to be honest). This CDC initiative has monitored adolescent health behavior changes over time since 1991 through a series of surveys given to high...