By Marta Hepler Drahos
CNHI News Service

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Most societies recognize that early childhood is one of the most vulnerable stages in life -- and that very young children need specialized education for their social, physical, intellectual, creative and emotional development.

Kelly Kazek

By Kelly Kazek
CNHI News Service

Come on over, y’all, and give me some sugar.
Not THAT kind.
What are, y’all, warped or something?
I’m talking about real sugar, the kind that comes from sugar cane and beets.

Kelly Kazek

By Kelly Kazek
CNHI News Service

Y’all, I’m worried about the future of this country.
Health care reform is all well and good, but we need to start talking about the more serious issue confronting this nation — bratty kids.

Kelly Kazek

By Kelly Kazek
CNHI News Service

The tiny injustices of parenthood are too many to count — wearing formula stains to work, refereeing tantrums in Walmart, fielding the you’re-to-stupid-to-breathe-my-air eye rolls and having to eat the gummed, lint-covered vanilla wafer in the middle of church service before your kid can stick it in the hair of the woman sitting in front of her, who just happened to be the pastor’s wife.
Oh, that last one was just me?
But we’ve all been there. After 15 years and 353 days as a parent, I thought I was fairly experienced.
I’d grown cocky, even."

Kelly Kazek

By Kelly Kazek
CNHI News Service

What kind of government puts warning labels on harmless-looking strollers (Do Not Fold With Infant Inside) and hair dryers (Do Not Operate While Showering) but refuses to protect its children by placing warnings on the latest and biggest threat to security of all — cell phones?
I’m not talking about the dangers of driving while talking or texting, which some governments already have taken it upon themselves to regulate. People, I’m talking about the true danger of cell phone use that the British government discovered two years ago — probably because their secret agents wear tuxes and ours don’t — the threat of texting and walking at the same time."