http://www.kidspal.net Growing Street Smart Kids Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:41:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Children love to play. So McDonalds, Burger King, Time Zone and many children’s recreation centres have play pens with "ball pits" that are a great attraction for children. Unwary of the lurking dangers and what seems like an harmless little fun venture turns into a deadly experience for some families. These ... http://www.kidspal.net/uncategorized/tales-from-the-pits/ With the popularity of social networking on the rise, sites like MySpace, YouTube, and Facebook are playing silly games with protecting children from sex offenders, pornography, cyber bulling and a growing list of online threats. Many sites offer parents silly rules to help people deal with the problem. Parents are uncomfortable ... http://www.kidspal.net/safety/silly-cyber-rules-do-not-protect-kids/ Under pressure from parents and lawmakers to come up with better ways to protect young people from online exploitation , MySpace and Facebook have come up with a set of new measures they will be implementing. If you examine many of these new 'rules' closely you will wonder why ... http://www.kidspal.net/drugs/silly-cyber-safeguards/ Teenage driving accidents increase during summer. Teen driver insurance cost have skyrocketed! Increases in teenage insurance costs for males have not had much of an impact as statistics show. Summer is a time when young people have a lot more time on their hands and for them being out there ... http://www.kidspal.net/safety/safe-summer-driving-for-teens/ The war on drugs has shifted to schools. School authorities have taken unprecedented steps to bring in sniffer dogs to track possession of drugs by kids. Most kids in schools have found this to be quite intimidating. The use of these ‘trained’ dogs has become widespread in the United States, ... http://www.kidspal.net/drugs/attacking-our-kids-with-dogs/