Wackyloonies

“Children of authoritarian parents had five times the risk of being overweight compared to children of authoritative [a more diplomatic style] mothers,” said Dr. Kyung Rhee, a clinical instructor and research fellow at Boston University School of Medicine and the study’s lead author. (more…)

My mother sent me Dan Burton of Indiana’s informtation on the government investigation on this subject.

Shout out to Elspeth & Heather!

(Not that either of them know this exists)Most schoolkids interviewed in this survey think you are essential to their learning - yay! recognition from your clients!!
See the whole article 13,000 Kids Can’t Be Wrong Of course I just noticed the article is 2 years old, but hey I find it encouraging.

Found this link through a webgroup: Living With Two Year Olds.

We’re actually not tired of things to do at home yet by a long shot, but it’s a cool resource nevertheless.

Now I usually find this whole mercury/autism thing to be ridiculous when from what I’d seen all we know is mercury is not good for you and yes there is a rise in autism, but this article gave me pause. In terms of vaccinations it still is mostly a moot point since there is no mercury in California vaccines, but it makes you think about the flu shots they recommend to all small children…hmmm
- Read the article

The more i learn about this issue, the more I wish I could see the Chinatown movie about it…

From: Science Daily

By DAN OLMSTED

Representatives of 22 medical organizations have written to all members of Congress opposing efforts to ban the mercury-based preservative thimerosal from vaccines.

“Our organizations respectfully wish to state our opposition to all legislative efforts at the federal and state levels to restrict access to vaccines containing thimerosal, an ethylmercury-based preservative,” said the letter dated April 3 from “Multiple National Organizations that Support Safe and Effective Vaccines.”

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Lien que je pique de Geraldine une maman a L.A. de lesmamans, mon yahoo group preferee. Interessant, ici je pense qu’on demande beaucoup des parents mais ils n’ont pas de statut???

Original Article

PARIS (AFP) - 23/05/2006 10h24 - Les parents d’élèves auront bientôt un vrai statut au sein du monde scolaire, un rôle “institutionnel” qu’ils réclament depuis longtemps et qui leur permettra de mieux dialoguer avec les professeurs et de s’impliquer davantage dans la vie éducative des établissements.

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