Trump Administration Weakens Healthy School Lunch Standards

For many children, breakfast and lunch at school are the only stable, regular, healthy meals of their day. As schools have made efforts to provide organic, fresh food, the Trump administration is weakening Obama era regulations on school lunch nutrition. Free and Reduced … [Read more...]

Kindergarten Social Skills More Important Than Academics

In recent years, the trend in education is to make kindergarten more rigorous academically. There's been an upswing in parents hiring tutors for their five-year-olds; however, research finds social skills are more important developmentally at this age than … [Read more...]

New AAP Policy on Spanking: Does it Go Far Enough?

Spanking is defined as a form of corporal punishment that used to be standard in parenting in the US. It is legal in all 50 states as long as it is used as a form of discipline and does not leave a mark. A new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy (11/18) takes a stronger … [Read more...]

Will Iceland Become the First Country to Outlaw Circumcision?

In the spring of 2018, member of Iceland's parliament Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir (Progressive Party) proposed a ban on male circumcision. A similar law was passed in 2005 banning circumcision of girls in Iceland. If the proposed bill becomes law, a penalty of six years in … [Read more...]

Paid Maternity Leave Around the World (Guess who offers none?)

Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me … [Read more...]