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Dominique Browning: Tornado Tears Through Oklahoma and Our Hearts

Doing something about climate change is not going to help the people whose lives are already upended by tornadoes -- or floods, hurricanes and droughts. But no parent can simply throw up her hands and ignore the trouble we are racing right into.

Warren Buffett Helps Pitch Berkshire Hathaway's Dairy Queen as Barkley Airs First Ad for Chain

Warren Buffett is helping to pitch Dairy Queen just as Kansas City, Mo.-based agency Barkley is airing its first TV ad for the chain, five months after it landed the creative account. The godfather of DQ parent Berkshire Hathaway does not appear in the spot—although a lookalike does pop up in the middle of it. Show More Summary

Ten Percent Of Teens Use Study Drugs Yet Most Parents Aren't Aware

Many teens across the country are using "study drugs" to give them an academic advantage and help them achieve better results in school. The University of Michigan Mitt Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health, which was...Show More Summary

Miraculous Newborn Helps His Parents Recover From Devastating Brain Injuries

Post by Mary Fischer Hearing the news that you are about to become parents is definitely exciting and also a little bit scary at the same time. Especially if you suffer from some sort of debilitating condition that makes everyday life...Show More Summary

Disney’s Story App Lets Parents Share Photos & Write Stories

Disney’s has released a new iOS app to help parents share family photos from their smartphone and make a story out of it. It’s called Story. The app accesses a user’s camera roll and the user can add photos and videos to the app to create a story. Show More Summary

Larry Magid: Free Parents' Guides to Snapchat & Instagram

Two free Parents' Guides help parents demystify and take the fear out of popular photo-sharing apps Kids are flocking to mobile photo-sharing apps and...

TeamSnap Online Sports Management Platform Acquires Weplay For An Undisclosed Amount

TeamSnap, a company that provides tools for managing sports teams, has today announced that it is acquiring Weplay, a social networking site for athletes, parents and coaches to help facilitate coordination for events, games, practices, etc. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Jeanne Bishop: Tragedy and Love in Oklahoma City

Two elementary schools had been hit by the level EF4 storm. Children were dead. Parents who flocked to the school were reportedly kept away from the perimeter so that rescuers could hear any voices that might be crying for help. My first thought as I surveyed the rubble was, Why?

How you can help the Oklahoma tornado victims

I cannot even imagine the stress and grief of the Oklahoma parents as they try to find their children in the rubble of two elementary schools hit by tornadoes on Monday. There was an awful description in an AP story: “A man with a megaphone stood Monday evening near St. Show More Summary

Parents turn to Internet to help daughter charged with sex with girl minor

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then...

Tracking 50M people, Newsle nabs $1.65M in funding to help keep you informed of your social contacts

Newsle, a news discovery service, announced that it has raised a $1.65 million Series A round of funding. The investment was led by Advance Publications, the parent company of Condé Nast... Keep reading ?

10 Things Every Bride Forgets On The Day Of Her Wedding

Let's assume you've read this and you know that thanking your parents is a must, eating a healthy breakfast will help keep your energy levels high all day, and stocking your bridal bag is a no-brainer. Yes? Then you're probably not the...Show More Summary

How the Pregnant and Parenting Student Access to Education Act Can Help Teen Moms

My senior year of college, two of my roommates and I watched Teen Mom CONSTANTLY. I liked to pretend I wasn’t watching it, but the conversation usually went something like this: Becka (standing in doorway): “Oh jeez, guys. You’re watching this?” Arielle: “Yes. Show More Summary

Route to new school a 'danger zone,' protester says

Closure of Overton Elementary will force displaced students to walk dangerous new routes to school, said Jitu Brown, a parent and organizer who helped lead about 150 protesters on a South Side march today.

We should help, rather than stigmatise, vulnerable parents

NHTSA Offers Booklet: “A Parent’s Guide to Playing it Safe with Kids and Cars”

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has created a booklet to help parents understand all the safety features on their vehicles, and how to keep children safe by using the available safety features and car seats. The booklet opens up with a list of a few safety features to help keeps kids safe. These [...]

Dr. Gail Gross: How to Help a Child Recover From Child Abduction Trauma

Listening empathically to children after a trauma, without judgment, is one of the greatest tools parents have.

With Zoobean, D.C. Couple Launches Website to Help Parents Find Books for Their Kids

A little more than a year ago, Felix Brandon Lloyd and Jordan Lloyd Bookey had a bit of a literary dilemma. With Bookey about to give birth to a daughter, they wanted to get a book appropriate to read to their then-two-year-old son. [ more › ]

New App Helps Shoppers Boycott Koch Brothers

Liberal activists can now use their smartphones to scan products when shopping in order to avoid products produced by Koch Industries. The app, called “Buycott,” shows users the parent company of a given item they’ve scanned, allowing...Show More Summary

Rachel Unruh: Sequester: How People Helping the Jobless End Up Jobless

What my son's generation (including the children whose parents will lose their jobs because of the sequester) have learned is that Congress does not make policy through a proactive, affirmative process, but instead by not acting at ...