Fla. Homeowners Want Ban on Kids Playing Outside

April 1, 2011, 6:37 am

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Ahh, childhood: that magical time when you can be slapped with a $100 fine for playing tag on the street outside your house. At least, that’s what will happen if a certain group of Edgewater, Fla., homeowners get their way. The Persimmon Place homeowners association will vote later this month...

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Freeze Tag, Kickball Unsafe: New York State

April 19, 2011, 3:42 pm

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It’s not just fun and games: Freeze tag, kickball, and Wiffleball all come with a “significant risk of injury,” say New York state authorities. Even Red Rover and Capture the Flag have been labeled dangerous on a new risky activities list, the New York Daily News reports. The state Health...

Bounce Houses Take Flight, Injuring 13

June 6, 2011, 9:38 am

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Some 13 kids were injured when three bounce houses blew away in the wind on Saturday, taking flight with the children still in them. “It was the craziest thing you ever saw,” said a parent at the Oceanside, New York, kids’ soccer tournament that was hit by powerful gusts. “I...

Cops Squeeze Lemonade Stand, Issue $500 Fine

June 17, 2011, 6:20 am

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A group of kids got a bitter lesson in American justice when they were hit with a $500 fine for operating a lemonade stand without a license. The real rub? The profits were earmarked for a charity to fight pediatric cancer. Officials said they cracked down on the stand, set...

Restaurant Bans Crying Kids

February 17, 2012, 8:30 am

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Do you like listening to screaming children while you eat? No? Well, Grant Central Pizza feels your pain. The Atlanta-area restaurant has added a new message to its menu: "We respectfully ask that parents tend to their crying tots outside." Grant Central's co-owner Donnie Parmer tells Fox 5 that the...

Brooklyn's New 'Coffee' Lovers: Tots

February 17, 2012, 10:32 am

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Coffee: It's not just for grownups anymore. Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood is offering toddlers their own "babyccinos"—and the kids are loving it, the New York Daily News reports. At a little more than $1 per cup, the hot frothed-milk drinks—which have no coffee in them—let kids "feel...

Woman Fights to Get Kids Out of Jail in Nepal

March 17, 2012, 6:23 am

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Nepal's extreme poverty rate leads to an unusual prison situation: Kids sometimes go to jail with their incarcerated parents because there's no alternative—it's that or the streets. CNN profiles a 28-year-old woman who has made it her life's mission to get these kids out of jail. Pushpa Basnet spearheads...

Parents Suing Apple Over 'Addictive' Kid Apps

April 19, 2012, 1:35 am

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A group of parents are angry with Apple for toying with their kids. Their class-action lawsuit attacking the company for luring clueless children with "addictive," expensive game apps was recently given the go-ahead by a San Jose judge . Games are "highly addictive, designed deliberately to be so, and tend to...

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Hey Kids: This Summer, Ditch the Gadgets

May 11, 2012, 11:26 am

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The Internet and iPads and smartphones are great for adults—but we need to take a hard look at what they're doing to our kids, warns a computer science professor at Yale. It may be tempting to let them sit down with an iPad come June, but such technology is...

Future Criminal? Maybe We Should Screen Kids' Brains

October 17, 2012, 11:55 am

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A Slate essay today raises an intriguing question: Should we screen the brains of kids to look for genetic markers suggesting they'll turn into violent criminals? The idea would be to identify the kids and provide behavioral help before it's too late, writes Gary Marchant. Science is close to making...

Boy Calls 911 to Avoid Bedtime

February 21, 2013, 12:45 pm

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Police in Massachusetts say a 10-year-old boy called 911 because he didn't want to go to bed. Brockton police say the boy called just after 8 last night and told the dispatcher he was calling to report his mother because he did not want to go to bed. There was...

1,200 Games Later, America Has New Marbles Champs

June 21, 2013, 7:57 am

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Yesterday saw the completion of the 90th National Marbles Tournament, and America has crowned two new winners. Emily Cavacini, 11, who hails from outside Pittsburgh, took home the title of girls' champion, while Cooper Fisher, 12, from Middletown Valley, Maryland, beat out the other boys, reports the AP . It was...

US Sues Florida Over Kids Kept in Nursing Homes

July 23, 2013, 12:07 pm

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The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Florida yesterday, accusing the state of unnecessarily institutionalizing about 200 children with disabilities in six nursing homes around the state; the suit argues the kids don't need to be there and could benefit from care at home or elsewhere in the community. The...

California the 1st to Give Transgender Kids Rights

August 12, 2013, 11:00 pm

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California yesterday became the first state to enshrine certain rights in state law for transgender students in kindergarten through 12th-grade, requiring public schools to allow those students access to whichever restroom and locker room they want. Gov. Jerry Brown announced that he had signed AB1266, which also will allow transgender...

Spain May Make Its Kids Do Chores

April 29, 2014, 9:37 am

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Is it a daily battle to get your kids to do their chores? You may want to move to Spain, where parliament on Friday approved a bill that would make children legally obliged to do housework—and more, BBC News reports. If the bill becomes law, those under the age...

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Southwest Deplanes Family Over Dad's Critical Tweet

July 24, 2014, 9:58 am

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Think twice before you tweet—it could get you kicked off a plane. After Duff Watson used Twitter to complain about a Southwest gate agent, he was deemed a safety threat, deplaned with his two young daughters, then threatened with police action unless he deleted the tweet. It all started...

Mom Arrested After Letting Son, 7, Walk to Park

July 31, 2014, 3:58 am

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To all the parents who think it's OK to send their kids to the park alone, there is a new name to add to the list of those locked up for doing so. Florida mom Nicole Gainey was arrested and charged with child neglect after allowing her 7-year-old son to...

We Understand Probability as Toddlers

August 31, 2014, 8:27 am

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Don't understand probability? Try asking a 2-year-old. A study suggests they have an instinctive understanding of the ideas involved, and that a little observation goes a long way. Researchers at the University of Washington showed 32 toddlers a machine featuring a pair of blocks and a platform, Quartz reports. An...

By 6 or 7, Kids Learn How to Lie and Distrust

September 3, 2014, 8:26 am

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Kids are capable of thinking strategically, including using competitiveness and lies to their own benefit, by the time they're 7. So report researchers out of the University of Minnesota who studied 69 kids ages 3 to 9 playing two games. Kids typically figure out how to infer what others are...

No, Your Kid Was Not Born an Altruistic Little Angel

January 8, 2015, 6:42 am

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Back in 2006, a study that went on to gain prominence found that 18-month-olds were willing to be helpful even without being prompted. Many assumed this was evidence of innate altruism, but new research out of Stanford and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that...