There’s nothing like a picture of a steaming, juicy burger to send hungry folks to the nearest drive-thru, right? Not if …
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The Perils of Toy Shopping With a Feminist Mom
How are our daughters supposed to grow up to be ‘Lean In’–worthy execs if most of the play mops and stoves are labeled for girls?
Can Fast-Food Toy Bans Really Help Kids Eat Better?
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Child’s Play: What’s So Bad About ‘The Breast Milk Baby’?
Little girls love mimicking their mommies. They clomp around in high heels, push toy Dyson vacuums and tenderly strap stuffed animals into baby strollers. Big sisters — and brothers — who see their mothers nursing a new baby …
New York City Council Considers Banning Happy Meal Toys
Looks like San Francisco’s city officials, who voted in November to ban toys from most McDonald’s Happy Meals, have inspired legislators in New York City too.
Mr. Potato Head Gets Off the Couch. Meet Hasbro’s Slimmer Spud
He may be little more than a massive carbohydrate, but that doesn’t mean Mr. Potato Head isn’t capable of cutting himself down.
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Christmas Shoppers, Rejoice: Toys Are Safer…or Are They?
The past few years have not been good ones for companies that manufacture toys and kids who play with them.
No Vegetable, No Toy: San Francisco Mimics Parents Everywhere
While the rest of San Francisco was preoccupied with the just-ended election campaign, the city’s Board of Supervisors agreed more quietly on a measure intended to help curb childhood obesity: banning the toy giveaways that are …
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Got Toys? Fisher-Price Just Recalled 10 Million; Check if Yours Are Safe
The timing couldn’t be worse. Just as parents, grandparents — and, most of all, manufacturers — are gearing up for the annual holiday toy-buying extravaganza, Fisher-Price has recalled more than 10 million tricycles, toys …
Lithium batteries: common but little-known danger to kids
As any parent knows, children, especially infants and toddlers, like to put things in their mouths, and the smaller the object, it seems, the more attractive it becomes for tiny appetites.
Writing in the journal Pediatrics, researchers at Georgetown University and George Washington University report on a disturbing rise in youngsters …