by HomeOfEighT8 | May 17, 2011 | Advice, Parenting
Celebrating teen parent success! That’s what Mary Dolan and Kathy Payne are doing, following the release of the Growing Together Child and Parent Society Longitudinal Follow-Up Study documenting the effects of the Cowichan Valley’s young parent program on...
by HomeOfEighT8 | May 4, 2011 | Advice, Health
Since the introduction of Red Bull in the U.S. in 1997, the market for high-caffeine energy drinks has grown exponentially. And it didn’t take long for young co-eds to concoct alcoholic, high-energy mixtures. From “Jager Bombs” (Jagermeister and Red Bull) to “Red Bull...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Mar 16, 2011 | Advice, Parenting
A recently published evaluation of a New York state home visiting program has found that home visiting produces significant outcomes in reducing child abuse and neglect. Healthy Families New York is a home visiting program targeting expectant parents and those with...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jan 7, 2011 | Advice, Health, Parenting, Resources
PURPLE Program and Its Research The Period of PURPLE Crying® provides educational information about the properties of normal infant crying that are uniformly frustrating to caregivers, and appropriate action steps that caregivers need to know. Inconsolable infant...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jan 7, 2011 | Advice, Health, Resources
(CNN) — A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an “elaborate fraud” that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday. An investigation published by the British...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Dec 22, 2010 | Advice, Parenting
According to a report recently released by the Maytree Foundation, almost 900,000 kids in low-income families are missing out on free education grants – in part because community organizations aren’t getting the information out to parents. Six years after the...
