Posts tagged parents

• Car Surfing Newest Teenage Risky Behavior

  David Mittleman | May 21, 2012 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It isn't uncommon for teenagers to engage in risky behavior. You can easily tell this by reading stories in the media of teenagers snorting cinnamon, drinking hand sanitizer to get drunk or...

• Children's Vitamins Can be Deadly

  David Mittleman | April 27, 2012 10:08 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Vitamins seem like such a good thing--they provide you with the extra nutrients you might have missed out on in your regular meals. However, it is also important to be careful about what vitamins...

• Teens Drinking Hand Sanitizer to Get Drunk

  David Mittleman | April 26, 2012 9:41 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Between the choking game and pill parties, teenagers have picked up yet another dangerous bad habit: drinking hand sanitizer to get drunk. Hand sanitizers contain 62% ethyl alcohol and six...

• Parents Forget Kids at Chuck E. Cheese More Often Than You Think

  David Mittleman | March 26, 2012 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Chuck E. Cheese's is fun for kids and parents alike--kids have a blast playing games, eating pizza and playing with their friends while parents get a breather or two. However, the Chuck E....

• Meat Industry Claims Pink Slime is Safe for Kids

  David Mittleman | March 13, 2012 8:58 AM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  You may have seen the recent news reports about the pink slime that is put into the ground beef that is sent to schools for children's lunches. The number of concerned parents has steadily...

• A Child is Treated in the Emergency Room for a Stair Injury Every Six Minutes

  David Mittleman | March 12, 2012 9:01 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  It serves as a marker of childhood growth when your toddler finally makes the long and arduous crawl up the stairs. However, stairs can be a serious danger. In fact, over the past ten years,...

• Three Frightening Teen Drug Trends

  David Mittleman | February 21, 2012 10:00 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  All parents are concerned that their children will become involved with using illegal drugs, like alcohol or marijuana. However, new evidence suggests that parents shouldn't be as concerned...

• Parents Expose Children to Chickenpox with Lollipops

  David Mittleman | November 19, 2011 11:00 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A strange offer appeared on Facebook recently for lollipops purposefully infected with the chickenpox virus. The ad read: I have PayPal and plenty of spit and suckers. It works too because...

• Doctors Say Don't Put Bumper Pads in Cribs

  David Mittleman | October 18, 2011 8:39 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Pediatricians are warning parents not to put bumper pads inside of cribs because of the risk of infants suffocating. The American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) set the new guidelines for physicians...

• Parents Distracted by Cellphones Even While Teaching Kids to Drive

  David Mittleman | October 17, 2011 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The other day I wrote about whether men or women are better drivers. Overall, women hold a better view of themselves as safe drivers compared to men, and this turns out to be true according to...