Moms on board: A growing throng of women are riding the slopes with their kids
McClatchy Newspapers
2/5/2009, by Jeff Seidel
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - Jessica Belbot sat in the lounge at Mount Holly Ski Resort, trying to get warm by a fire. She sent a text message to her sons, who were out snowboarding: Where are you? No reply. Typical teens.
"Do you want to go back out?" Belbot, 35, of Fenton, Mich., asked her ...
Layoffs mean more than lost wages for visa holders
McClatchy Newspapers
2/3/2009, by Pete Carey
SAN JOSE, Calif. (MCT) - For the two out-of-work engineers, it's a race against time. They've lost their Silicon Valley jobs and need to quickly find others at a time when companies everywhere are tightening their belts. Both are Indians whose advanced degrees were earned at American universities. ...
Some families doubling up, downsizing as economy falters
McClatchy Newspapers
2/2/2009, by Cristina Bolling
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - With the economy and housing market in a slump, some growing families are making do with the space they've got instead of moving to a bigger home. That means their kids may start doing something that kids don't do much these days: share a room. But experts say some ...
Crafters feel pinch of new children's lead-testing law
McClatchy Newspapers
1/29/2009, by Suzanne Bohan
Contra Costa Times (MCT) - In early January, Mimi Sweeny began rising before dawn to wage an online battle from her office against a pending federal law she says will drive her children's apparel company out of business. The owner of Baby Leo, a small, home-based San Francisco business that offers ...
Kids with cell phones can walk into moving traffic
McClatchy Newspapers
1/26/2009, by Harry Jackson Jr.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - We all know that people with cell phones stuck in their heads while driving are hazardous to everyone's health. Now, psychologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have determined that children who talk on cell phones while crossing streets increase their ...
Seniors raise canes for safety
McClatchy Newspapers
1/26/2009, by Kathy Haight
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Combat isn't the first thing you think about when you see someone walking with a cane. But older adults learned they make good weapons at recent Combat Cane classes at Charlotte, N.C.'s Atria MerryWood senior living center.
From Connecticut to California, cane ...
Not too old to hit the slopes; Industry sees changes as baby boomers keep skiing
McClatchy Newspapers
1/26/2009, by Joan Verdon
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT) - The ski industry around the country is responding to a new demographic that's hitting the slopes in increasing numbers _ senior skiers. Baby boomers, part of the generation that first propelled skiing to mainstream popularity in the United States, are staying on ...
Dolls, purses marketed with self-esteem, sharing
McClatchy Newspapers
1/23/2009, by Lini S. Kadaba
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Wholesome values are enveloped in rhinestones and BFF clubs, sweet smells and individuality, party dresses and philanthropy. That's the take-home message from a shopping cartful of new toys and products for girls _ pocketbooks, perfumes and dolls, among others _ ...
From hypertasking to singletasking: How to do it
McClatchy Newspapers
1/19/2009, by Heidi Stevens
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Multitasking is either the backbone of civilization as we know it, or the scourge of our very souls. It is, after all, the reason that laundry gets folded, meals get made, dogs get walked, friends get called, bosses get e-mailed, bodies get exercised and kids get ...
Funds for battered boy going into trust, court rules
McClatchy Newspapers
1/15/2009, by Cynthia Hubert
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Tens of thousands of dollars donated to help a Northern California boy who police say was held captive and ritualistically tortured will be placed into a special trust, a judge has decided. More than $34,000 has poured into a nonprofit law firm from across the country ...
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