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Mattel announces third Chinese toy recall

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Toymaker Mattel Inc on Tuesday announced a third recall of Chinese-made toys, saying it would take back more than 800,000 units globally that contain "impermissible" levels of lead.

In total, 522,000 U.S. toys and 322,000 outside the United States are being recalled. The toys were shipped between August 3, 2006, and July 31, 2007, the company said.

The latest recall involves three Fisher-Price toy models and eight Barbie brand playsets. No Barbie dolls were included.

Mattel instructs people to go to its Web site (www.service.mattel.com) to establish whether they own an affected toy. After they fill out a form and send back the affected parts, Mattel will send them replacement and bonus parts.

Full report: Reuters

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Internet Safety for Kids: Be an Online Watchdog

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Kids today are technologically savvy. Preschoolers play games online. High school kids have their own web pages and blogs (online diaries). The Internet can be educational, fun and an important social tool for kids of all ages. Unfortunately, what comes with it is the possibility of danger. How can we as parents, who are many times technologically challenged, protect our kids from dangers online?
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Motherhood: Everything I Needed to Know About Raising Babies I Learned From My Mom-Friends

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You can wear out your mouse-pad surfing all the top ranked baby websites, fill your shopping cart to overflowing with the must-read baby magazines, manuals, and momoirs, but, in the end, it’s your mom-friends who tell you what you really need to know. Here are five all-important lessons about motherhood that I learned from other moms.

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Miscarriage risk increases if parents smoked

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Women who were exposed to their parents’ smoking as children may have a higher likelihood of suffering a miscarriage, new research suggests.

In a study of nearly 2,200 non-smoking pregnant women, researchers found that those exposed to their parents’ secondhand smoke during childhood were 80 percent more likely to have a miscarriage compared with women whose parents didn’t smoke.

The findings appear in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Full report: Reuters
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Dave Taylor on Attachment Parenting – An Interview

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It’s our great pleasure to have Dave Taylor featured in this interview. Dave is the owner of a wildly popular attachment parenting blog, APparenting. Apart from this, he’s also a business and technology blogger for The Intuitive Life and Ask Dave Taylor respectively. The father of three has authored numerous books, mainly on technical subjects.

In this interview, Dave is going to share with you his views on attachment parenting. Enjoy!

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