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A company called KidZui has taken a positive approach to filtering what your children ages 3 to 12 can access on the internet. They hired 200 teachers and parents from across the US to search for appropriate sites and content for this age group. From this they have created a child-friendly subset of the web. For $10 a month or $100 per year parents receive the KidZui software and receive the service which enables any computer to access about 500,000 safe websites. KidZui.com |
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In Queensland, New Zealand, the state cabinet is looking at jailing parents for abandoning their kids to go gambling, drinking or shopping. This law would apply to parents who have children under the age of 12 who leave their children unattended for an “unreasonable amount of time”. Opponents of this law say that these tougher penalties will create even more trauma for the children involved … in a weird way, they’ve got a point. On the one hand, the parent could leave the children alone for 8 hours, on the other hand the police could take the parent away leaving the children parentless for days. Hmmm. Read more... |
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Kansas and Kentucky have signed into law legislation that will ease the transition for military children from school to school. Twenty-one other statesa re actively considering the compact as well. The compact seeks uniform standards for school transition for military children. Once in force, those children who move to a new school will no longer be prevented from taking classes they want or denied extra-curricular activities. They won’t have to repeat classes or delay graduation because they are completing a new state’s requirement. Read more... |
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