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New York Mom, Shot Dead While Shielding Kids At School

October 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This woman was a true hero. She placed herself between a gunman and children to shield them and sacrificed her own life to save theirs. Source: Huffington Post NEW YORK — Someone with a gun opened fire on a street as students were let out of school Friday afternoon, killing one parent who had tried to shield children from harm and injuring an 11-year-old girl and another parent, police and school officials said. Zurana Horton hovered over students to protect them as shots were fired. She was shot in the face and chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. Another woman was hit in an arm and... [Read the full story]

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New York Mom, Shot Dead While Shielding Kids At School

October 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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Cops: Woman left child in stroller outside bar

August 20, 2011 · 2 Comments

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – A Daytona Beach mother was arrested and charged with child neglect after police say she left 5-year-old child who was in her care in a stroller outside a bar while she was inside the bar drinking at around 9:45 p.m. at a bar in Daytona Beach FL. According to the arrest report, Sarah Lynn Cheek, 34, went to the bar with the 5-year-old child and told the child to, ”Stay here. I’m going to get you a candy bar.” The report says bar patrons saw the child outside the bar alone and called police who arrested Cheek and charged her with child neglect. Police... [Read the full story]

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New Breastfeeding Law to Help Working Moms

February 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Women returning to work after childbirth often have to choose between breastfeeding at work and their jobs, according to Chris Mulford, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee. However, under the new health care law (aka Obamacare), that is about to change. The Affordable Care Act will impact nursing law and breastfeeding at work. The Department of Labor is establishing guidelines for the new nursing law, which will including the following provisions: Nursing spaces must be made available, and in a place other than a bathroom. Women must be allowed to nurse at work for up to one... [Read the full story]

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Homeschool Best Option for More Families With Special Needs Children

October 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Frustrated by the failures of public schools, families worldwide are choosing to educate their children at home. PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 06, 2010 – Gray, TN, October 6, 2010 — Do a little research about the reasons so many parents with special needs children are choosing to educate their children at home, and you’ll discover that most are doing so out of a sense of desperation rather than religious convictions or the pursuit of higher academic achievement. “Parents of children with special needs often turn to homeschooling only as a last resort,” according to Lisa Rivero, author... [Read the full story]

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MoM A Rock Concert Musical

October 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

New York Times: by Michael Sommers Five disparate housewives, bonding in their long-suppressed desires to be rock stars, form a band soon to become famous as MoM. Eight years later, the women return to the high school gym where they first performed to sing about their subsequent highs, lows and wife-mother-superstar throes in “MoM A Rock Concert Musical.” Visit NY Times for the story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/nyregion/10playnj.html Another article about these MoM’s from NJ.com by Liz Keill: ‘MoM A Rock Musical’ shakes rafters at Playwrights Theater in Madison Five... [Read the full story]

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Boston area mom punches baby in mouth and is surrounded on bus

A Boston Mom is accused of punching her toddler son in the mouth on a city bus and shouting expletives at him before being surrounded by a group of passengers and kept on the bus until police arrived, according to the police. Erica Ryan pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault and battery on a child causing injury....

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