Category: Kids And Parenting

Spray Cleaners: Major Danger for Toddlers

Spray Cleaners: Major Danger for Toddlers

A report by the Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Center for Injury Research and Policy has shown that the most common poisoning injury for children under six is still spray cleaners, though exposure has been slashed in half over the last decade. Despite the decrease in cases since 1990, 12,000 children are still treated in emergency rooms [...]

PCP & Cocaine Found in 1-Year-Old Baby Boy

PCP & Cocaine Found in 1-Year-Old Baby Boy

A one year old child remained in hospital in Chicago under observation last night after tests on the infant showed up positive for Cocaine and PCP. The baby boy had reportedly been at home with his parent where he had been found chewing on a piece of tin foil contaminated with the drug. The child [...]

Indigenous teenagers selling sex for cigarettes

TEENAGE indigenous girls are prostituting themselves to white men for beer and cigarettes in the middle of Darwin. Former ATSIC regional council leader Kimberley Hunter said the scenes he has witnessed at night on Parap Rd, Parap, disgusted him and proved sexual abuse is not only performed by Aboriginal men. “Cars drive up and down [...]

Most Teens Want a Later Start to School Days

(HealthDay News) — Many American teens believe that starting school later in the morning and giving tests later in the school day would help improve their grades, a new study finds. Researchers surveyed 280 students at a suburban high school outside of Philadelphia. The students start their school day at 7:30 a.m. and finish at [...]