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Earlier this week ParentHelps.com featured an article from About.com on preparing for a family emergency. In the same vein of topic, as I was reading through my RSS feeds this afternoon, I came across an article sharing steps to take to prepare for winter storms. With the temperature dropping and the winter months [...]

When your home is on fire or a tornado is bearing down on your house it’s not a great idea to be running around looking for your birth certificate or your child’s Social Security Card. Kimberly Keith puts together a resourceful article on what to have handy in a family emergency and how to [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Bumbo “Baby Sitter” Seats
Units: About 1 million
Manufacturer: Bumbo International, of South Africa
Hazard: If the seat is placed [...]

Doctors are petitioning the FDA to pull over the counter medications for kids under six years of age off the shelves citing deaths, hallucinations, seizures and heart-rhythm disturbances when the medicines are pulled.
What does this mean for parents? It would potentially mean that parents would have to visit the doctor in order to [...]

Labor Day… the day to relax and have fun with the family. I planned on giving my wife a relaxing morning by letting her sleep in and having breakfast ready for her and the kids when she woke up. We were going to have the All-American breakfast… pancakes, eggs, and bacon.  It wasn’t as [...]

If you are like me, you worry about your child using the internet. You may have a list of sites that you are comfortable with your child surfing. But what happens when they accidentally click the wrong link or type in the wrong thing, suddenly their innocence can be forever lost.
Two things I use in [...]

In the past week Myspace.com banned 29,000 sex offenders from using Myspace. I applaud their action but realize that it wouldn’t take much for them to cook up some phony identity, log back on and get back to their old habits. Below are several points to discuss with your teen in regards to [...]

Over on Coolest-Gadgets.com, methodshop shares his thoughts regarding the child who dialed 911 almost 300 times from a deactivated cell phone. That’s right a deactivated cell phone. Deactivated cell phones are required by law to have the ability to call 911. So if you have a deactivated cell phone that you’ve given [...]

My oldest keeps asking the question, “When can I get rid of my car seat?” I told him that was a great question and I didn’t know the answer to it. So, I put my fingers to work and put together a list of what the state regulations are. See below for your [...]