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HOW QUICKLY DO KIDS BECOME ADDICTED TO CIGARETTES?

If you want to keep your children from becoming addicted to cigarettes, you’d better hope they don’t even start smoking at all.  Shockingly, 10% of kids who become addicted to smoking do so within two days of their first cigarette!

WHAT YOU EAT AFFECTS YOUR ABILITY TO GET PREGNANT

If you’re trying to get pregnant you should know that what you eat affects fertility.  Some foods help a woman become more fertile; others decrease her ability to become pregnant.  Some of the culprits may be shocking!
Carbohydrates that are digested quickly like white rice and potatoes are likely to decrease fertility by 92%!  Animal proteins [...]

THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IN SCHOOLS

In December 28, 1945, most likely inspired by the recent end of World War II, the United States Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance and urged its frequent recitation in America’s schools.  The pledge was composed in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister.  Bellamy was chairman of a committee of state school superintendents [...]

SANTA LETTER PROGRAM KILLED

The U.S. Postal Service is dropping popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year.  Replies come with North Pole postmarks.
Last year, a postal worker in Maryland recognized an Operation Santa volunteer there as a registered [...]

KID’S SMILES PREDICT THEIR FUTURE MARRIAGE SUCCESS

A new study from DePauw University shows that how intensely people smile in childhood photographs, as indicated by crow’s feet around the eyes, predicts their adult marriage success.  According to the research, people whose smiles were weakest in snapshots from childhood through young adulthood were most likely to report being divorced in middle to old [...]

DOES CHICKEN SOUP HELP REALLY SOOTHE COLD SYMPTOMS?

‘Tis the cold and flu season again.  According to National Institute of Health, adults can expect to get two to four colds per year usually between September and May.  Parents, your children get six to ten colds each year, but I didn’t have to tell you that, did I?
When a cold strikes us we [...]

10 THINGS 20-SOMETHINGS WILL SAY TO THEIR GRANDKIDS

Grandparents are famous for telling us how much better or different life is for us now than it was for them.  Looking ahead, what do you suppose today’s 20-somethings will they say to their grandchildren?  Wired magazine looked into their crystal ball and came up with these ten things 20-somethings will say to their grandkids. [...]

EDIBLE BOARD GAMES

The latest trend in food is edible classic board games. Monopoly, the chocolate edition, features a paper board, a spinner replaces the dice, and the properties are chocolates. It will be available for $10 this month at target.com.  You can also get a chocolate version of Trivial Pursuit, which comes with 96 bite size chocolate [...]

HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE HALLOWEEN MAKEUP

Halloween is expensive.  We spend more money on Halloween than we do any other holiday except Christmas.  But, you can save some money this year by making your own Halloween makeup at home with things you probably have in your pantry.  Here is the recipe for homemade Halloween makeup.
Ingredients:

2 Tbsp cornstarch
1 Tbsp solid shortening (Crisco [...]

THE THINGS WE DO IN THE NAME OF THE KIDS

The film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s 1963 classic children’s story Where Wild Things Are opens in theaters on October 16th.  That means parents across the country will be pretending they have to take their kids to this movie when, secretly, they have been looking forward to seeing it themselves.
This brings up the question, “What [...]