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Watching a child bawl through a flu vaccine is tough for any parent, and it didn't help when the Centers for Disease Control recommended earlier this year that all children from 6 months to 23 months get vaccinated for the flu not once but twice within one month to ensure the most robust immune response. So doctors at Duke University launched a study to determine whether spacing the shots out might save toddlers and their parents some agony--while still protecting children from the flu. The good news: kids inoculated in the spring and again six months later with...
...crisis," had led him to "the conclusion that I can no longer serve the Lord as an Episcopal priest." Instead, he would begin two new alliances: one with Frank Lyons, the conservative Anglican Bishop of Bolivia, enabling Beach to end-run the Episcopal American hierarchy in favor of its parent Anglicanism; and the other as pastor of a brand-new church--largely financed, it was later announced, by businessman Clyde Strickland, who would donate $100,000 and 10 acres worth $770,000. This new life, Beach told his stunned listeners, would commence in less than a month. "Some...
...still toiling away? Is it better to send him to bed or have him finish? Send him to bed! A sleepy child is going to experience only diminishing returns for his efforts and will be tired the next day. Talk to the teacher, advises Aaron Pallas, who studies parent involvement at Teachers College in New York City. What are the teacher's expectations? Is he or she aware the work takes so much time? The problem could also lie with the child's study habits. He may be "doing his homework" while surfing...
...QUESTION OF HOW to treat depression in children and teenagers--one of the toughest a parent can face--is back in the news. After an emotional two-day public hearing, a panel of experts last week advised the Food and Drug Administration to require strong warning labels on antidepressant medications. The source of their concern: a number of scientific studies and anecdotal reports that have surfaced over the past year showing that severely depressed youngsters who take the drugs may be at increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior. If the proposed warning labels prompt closer monitoring of children...
Political strategists say women were shaken by the attack on a school in Beslan, Russia, in which scores of children lost their lives. "That was a parent's nightmare," says pollster David Winston, who advises House and Senate Republicans. So Kerry is trying to chip away at Bush's tough-on-terrorists image. Kerry's speech at the National Guard convention last week--in which he argued that the White House has "taken its eye off the ball" and even set back the war on terrorism by invading Iraq--may have been directed as much to women...