Families in the Loop

The New York Times this week published some startling statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Nearly 20% of high school boys and 11% of all school-aged children (4-17) have received a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at some point in their lives. Wow. Since 2007, the CDC has [...]

The backpack Demetric Boykin bought for his 4-year-old daughter, Jaliya, looks like a typical schoolgirl’s bag, with pink fabric and fairies on it. But there’s one big difference. Jaliya Boykin’s backpack is bulletproof. Boykin and his daughter live in Aurora, Colorado, where in July of 2012 a gunman entered a midnight showing of The Dark [...]

Forget about Obama’s first visit to Israel or the euro bailout to save the Cypriot banking system from collapse. Here’s the real news of the week. 1. Katie Holmes has gray hair. That’s it. Gray hair. 2. There are women in this world who actually follow Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goopy advice. 3. Lindsay Lohan and Amanda [...]

Earlier this month, South Dakota enacted a new law authorizing school employees to carry guns at work, the first state in the U.S. to do so. Citing the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, in which twenty children and six adults were murdered by a gunman, sponsor of the bill Representative Scott Craig (R-South Dakota) believes it [...]