Updates

At www.SaferProducts.gov, parents can search for or make safety complaints about family products such as cribs, kids’ clothing, bicycles and toys.

Sound Off! column and September magazine cover win awards from the Parenting Publications of America.

Seven parish elementary schools in Philadelphia and Bucks County, PA will close at the end of the 2010-2011 school year, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has announced.

Parents using cribs with drop rails are urged to check that the rail is functioning properly and that their crib has not been recalled.

Low-performing schools, whether charter or district schools, showed little improvement during a five-year period monitored in a new study.

Two federal agencies disagree on whether parents should be required to buy an extra ticket when flying with a child younger than age 2.

KidsHealth.org, based in Wilmington, DE, has published its annual list of 10 Kids’ Health Issues to Watch in the coming year, compiled by its doctors and editors.

Toddlers who attend large group day cares before age 2½ tend to have more respiratory and ear infections at that age, but fewer such illnesses during elementary school, according to a new study.

The measuring cups or devices packaged with over-the-counter (OTC) liquid children’s medication contained inconsistencies or useless information in almost every sample in a study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

More than 20 Pennsylvania ski resorts are again offering the Snowpass program, which gives 4th and 5th graders a one-day lift ticket, lesson and ski rental when accompanied by a paying adult.