The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Launches New Campaign Featuring Super Bowl Ads to Combat Teen Prescription Drug Abuse

ONDCP launches new attack with Super Bowl ads to abode the growing botheration of boyhood decree biologic abuse. Scott M. Burns, Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy explains the botheration and offers admonition for parents.

Washington, DC February 1, 2008 - More adolescence bribery decree drugs than any added adulterous drug, except marijuana; added than cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined. Every day, 2,500 kids age 12-17 bribery a decree painkiller for the aboriginal time and added humans are accepting absorbed to decree drugs. In fact, decree drugs are the biologic of best a allotment of 12- to 13-year-olds.

To abode this growing problem, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is ablution its aboriginal above Federal accomplishment to brainwash parents about teen decree biologic abuse. This civic accessible bloom action bliss off with an advertisement in the Super Bowl, and will cover added broadcast, print, and online advertising, association outreach, and new book and online resources to advice parents and communities action this adverse trend. The attack engages parents and added adults in the accomplishment to abate adolescence decree biologic bribery by advancement them to crop five specific steps to anon abate the accident of decree biologic bribery in their own homes.

Below is an overview of the botheration and admonition for parents from Scott M. Burns, Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

1. What's the problem?
Teens are abusing decree and over-the-counter drugs in growing numbers. Many say they accept application these drugs provides a "safe" top and are not as alarming as artery drugs.

While parents say they allocution to their adolescence about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, they are not discussing the risks of abusing decree and over-the-counter drugs like ahem and algid remedies. Teens, however, say that they affliction about what their parents think, abnormally if it comes to biologic use.

2. What happens to adolescence who bribery Rx drugs?
In the accomplished 5 years, there has been a affecting access in the amount of poisonings and even deaths associated with the bribery of decree and over-the-counter drugs. The charge for analysis for addiction to painkillers has aswell developed added than 300 percent in the accomplished decade.

The decree drugs a lot of frequently abused by adolescence are painkillers (like Vicodin and OxyContin), depressants (like sleeping pills), and stimulants (like Ritalin). Depending on which drugs adolescence take, and if they crop them in aggregate with booze and/or added drugs, they can face a amount of austere ancillary accoutrement - even aloft aboriginal use.

3. How are adolescence accepting these drugs?
Prescription drugs are everywhere - in our anesthetic cabinets, at grandma's house, at friends' houses - and they are about chargeless for the taking. And because these drugs are so readily available, adolescence who contrarily wouldn't blow "street" drugs ability be tempted to try decree drugs.

Check your own abode and allocution to your accompany and ancestors about ecology their decree and over-the-counter medicines. Visit TheAntiDrug.com to acquisition out about the abeyant decree biologic crisis zones in your own homes and neighborhoods.

4. What can parents do about it?
As a dad of a jailbait myself, I apperceive how harder it is to assure our accouchement from the alfresco apple and still accord them abundant abandon to accomplish their own decisions. It is accessible to bang a balance, however, and adolescence whose parents accurate able disapproval of biologic use are far beneath acceptable to appoint in actuality abuse.

Once parents accept the blackmail of decree biologic bribery - which is a lot of generally present aural the home - there are specific means they can anon abate the accident of decree biologic abuse:

-Safeguard all drugs at home. Monitor quantities and ascendancy access.
-Set bright rules for adolescence about all biologic use, including not administration anesthetic and consistently afterward the medical provider's admonition and dosages.
-Be a acceptable role archetypal by afterward these aforementioned rules with your own medicines.
-Properly burrow and actuate of old or bare medicines in the trash.
-Ask accompany and ancestors to aegis their decree drugs as well.

More tips for parents on how to aegis your teens

Scott Burns was nominated by President Bush and absolutely accepted by the United States Senate in December 2007 to serve as Deputy Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Prior to that, Mr. Burns served as Deputy Director for State, Local, and Tribal Affairs at ONDCP, afterward his acceptance in April 2002.

As the Deputy Director of National Drug Control Policy, Mr. Burns is amenable for allocation and accomplishing of the President's National Drug Control Strategy. This absolute and counterbalanced action includes behavior and programs directed against blockage and education, treatment, and accumulation abridgement and law enforcement.

Glasgow Storage Company Now Assists Victims of the Current Credit Crunch

Now that the Scotland acclaim crisis is banishment abounding adolescent adults aback into their parents' homes, they are hiring Kangaroo Self Storage Glasgow to abundance their belongings.

Glasgow, Scotland -- Many victims of the accepted Scotland acclaim crisis are now award they accept no best but to move aback in with their parents. Kangaroo Self Storage Glasgow letters a billow in accumulator appeal from 20-30 year olds who are abiding to abide with their parents. These barter intend to abundance their accouterments until the abridgement recovers.

Faced with annoying debts, redundancies, and the annoyed apartment market, abounding adolescent adults artlessly cannot acquiesce their own homes. They acquisition the alone band-aid is to acknowledgment to abide in their parent's abode until their bearings improves. Chris Stevens, the managing administrator of Kangaroo Self Storage Glasgow states "6 to 8 barter a anniversary acquaint us they are autumn their accouterments and affective aback in with their parents. Demand for our abate sized apartment has never been so high".

Lesley Morris typifies the accident of ability "I just couldn't acquiesce to break on in my own flat. Thankfully my parents are admiring and blessed for me to move aback in with them for a while. Kangaroo Self Storage has the absolute sized allowance for my needs". As she closes the aperture on her belongings, Lesley admits that she doesn't apperceive if she'll be able to acquiesce her own abode again.
To apprentice more, appointment http://www.kangarooselfstorage.co.uk

About Kangaroo Self Storage:
Kangaroo Self Storage provides casework to Glasgow and Dundee, Scotland. While their chump abject appearance humans from all walks of life, the a lot of accepted barter cover businesses, householders, and students. Practically annihilation can be stored in their accessories including tools, archives, equipment, furniture, etc. Customers can aswell align for their deliveries to be accepted, accomplished agents action a chargeless forklift barter account and aswell action a accumulating account authoritative it simple to move in.

New Website Launched For Raising A Baby

This account releases announces the addition of a new agreeable rich, educational website for alert mothers, parents of infants, grandparents caring for an baby or any added baby affliction giver.

Charleston, SC -- Charleston Web developers Mike Deitsch and Curtis Howell at MadBull Media Group today appear that they accept launched www.raisingababy.com, a absolute ability for those with a role in adorning and caring for babies.

Developed for alert parents and parents, grandparents, daycare providers, and even babysitters, the web website provides matter-of-fact, hands-on advice on a ample ambit of applied issues for babies’ caregivers—all in one place.

Although not advised to crop the abode of the ancestors physician, the website came about to acknowledge to the actuality that continued families and the aggregate baby acumen that came with them are no best the norm. As a result, humans caring for babies generally acquisition themselves adverse on the job training with little acquaintance from which to draw.

“For example, defining something as simple as childhood adventurous can be a addle that requires digging into baby books for advice on how to abundance the child,” said Mr. Howell. “’Raising a baby,’ cuts that time down to seconds. This is no baby ability if you accept a crying, black infant.”

MadBull Media Group specializes in designing websites of top absorption and affluent agreeable that are bookmarked as a destination for absorption groups to acknowledgment to generally for added learning.
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Over 50 actor People Will Face The Question: Who's Going to Take Care of Mom and Dad?

"What do we do with Mom and Dad?" Lynnita Mattock’s a lot of contempo release, "When Our Parents Live with Us: Remembering the Sweetness", addresses this ancestors caregivers' important catechism and abounding others.

Ft. Collins, CO -- Over fifty actor humans in the U.S. are asking, "What do we do with Mom and Dad? Who's traveling to crop affliction of them?" And the a lot of aflutter catechism of all, "What do I do if I accept to crop affliction of them?" Lynnita Mattock addresses these questions in her a lot of contempo book, "When Our Parents Live with Us: Remembering the Sweetness", a moving, accurate adventure about her own ancestors caring for their mother who suffers from dementia. When Our Parents Live with Us transports the clairvoyant through the affecting adventure of caregiving and offers achievement for caregivers.

From the time they accomplish the accommodation to crop affliction of their ailing mother to the biting black of her death, two sisters accost botheration afterwards botheration while authoritative assertive their mother is safe and adequate in her final days. Ultimately they ascertain how to bethink the acidity of their mother's activity in animosity of the challenges greeting them every footfall of the way. Mattock not alone writes a agitating adventure but aswell includes accessible tips and assets for developed accouchement demography affliction of their aged parents. She data her own family’s adventures in ambidextrous with guilt, frustration, and grief, including perspectives from ancestors associates active from a distance.

Lynnita Mattock is the columnist of When Our Parents Need Us: Caring for Aging Parents; Silent Flight, Devoted Pursuit; Break Free; and Abductee. She is currently alive on her sixth book.

"When Our Parents Live with Us: Remembering the Sweetness" is appear by Autumn Rose Publishing LLC and is accessible for $9.95 in bookstores or through the publisher’s website: www.autumnrosemerchandise.com. ISBN: 0974047236

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Teens Regain Parents’ Trust Using Drug Testing

Teenagers who’ve absent their parents’ assurance by abusing substances and lying to awning it up accept been accustomed a way to acquire it back. Using home testing kits, parents can actualize drug-, alcohol-, and tobacco-free claims fabricated by their kids.

St. Louis, MO -- Teenagers who’ve absent their parents’ assurance by abusing substances and lying to awning it up accept been accustomed a way to acquire it back. Using home testing kits, parents can actualize drug-, alcohol-, and tobacco-free claims fabricated by their kids. False accusations and confused assurance may become a affair of the accomplished for parents application such an approach.

“When parents and adolescence accede on a agency of reestablishing trust, again relationships can be salvaged continued afore they adulterate above repair,” says Mason Duchatschek, the controlling administrator of TestMyTeen.com, a Missouri-based aggregation that food testing kits to parents online. According to Duchatschek, parents who apprehend the claimed and banking liabilities associated with their child’s abeyant biologic rehabilitation, acknowledged fees, or incarceration are abundant beneath acceptable to crop a “wait and see” approach.

Duchatschek empiric that adolescence who initially resented the abstraction of accepting activated generally began to acceptable the befalling if it meant they could get their privileges aback added quickly. Additionally, the words “My parents analysis me” accept served as a socially able alibi for abounding kids in abnegation the burden of ambitious aeon to accumulate application substances.

To ensure accuracy, kits advance the aforementioned technologies begin in medical labs and clinics. Because they’re ordered via the Internet, alien application characterless packaging, and administered by parents in the aloofness of their home, acquaintance is protected.

Additional assets for parents are accessible at www.TestMyTeen.com.

NOTE TO EDITOR: Duchatschek accessible for interview.

Contact: Mason Duchatschek, TestMyTeen.com, 1-314-414-5500

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At Last: Twenty-First-Century Parenting Advice with an Old-Fashioned Twist

In our agitated and fast-paced world, added parents than anytime are analytic for admonition how to accession emotionally and physically advantageous children. Parents are encouraged to appearance the anew launched movie, "Animal School" at www.RaisingSmallSouls.com to accretion admired parenting insights.

Baltimore, MD -- Do you accept an abnormal child, who displays anger, is shy, talkative, consistently gluttonous something new, accessible to be challenged, or is lackadaisical, and you do not apperceive how to amuse and accompany out the best in him/her?

Raising accouchement today is a absolutely altered claiming than it was a abbreviate bearing ago. The parenting admonition and tips that were so able thirty years ago are generally extraneous to the twenty-first-century parent. Due to accelerated abstruse and amusing changes, accouchement are adverse radically altered issues than their parents faced during their childhood.

When baby boomers were in academy in the 1950’s and 1960's, the top problems faced by agents included chewing gum in chic and active in the hallways. In abrupt contrast, today's top issues accepting confronted by avant-garde agents are biologic bribery and boyhood pregnancy. The alarming clip with which association and technology has developed leaves abounding parents scrambling to acquisition the best adjustment to accession their accouchement in the year 2006.

"Parents today are bombarded with advice about parenting. The fast-paced time in which we abide translates into a new bearing amount occurring every two-to-three years, rather than the acceptable bearing gap of twenty-to-thirty years. What this agency to parents is that the problems that faced their ten-years-old adolescent three years ago are awfully altered than the issues that will be adverse their additional adolescent who is ten-years-old now,” says Ellen C. Braun.

Mrs. Braun is a mother of three accouchement active with her bedmate in Baltimore, MD. "My bedmate is a top academy principal," Braun says. "I accept abounding abounding conventions and conferences adherent to apprenticeship and parenting. For a while, I had my addendum and claimed observations in a notebook, and again the anticipation occurred to me: Why not allotment these gems of admonition with parents worldwide?"

To allay the avant-garde pressures that parents and accouchement akin face in this aberrant time of burning advice and information, Braun has aggregate her anthology of admired account common by ablution www.RaisingSmallSouls.com, a website area educators and parents can about-face for around-the-clock and able parenting skills. She draws on avant-garde approaches promulgated by psychologists and teachers, as able-bodied as the age-old acumen absolute in the words of ancient eras. Her affair for the success of anniversary alone adolescent as able-bodied as the ancestor forms the base for her acicular and claimed solutions to anniversary problem.

"The 'Animal School' cine apparent on the home page of the website has admiring agog reviews from parents, teachers, principals, and even students!" Braun expounds. "The purpose of the cine is to accessible parents' minds the acute abstraction of compassionate that anniversary adolescent is a different individual, and accordingly have to be dealt with in a address that emphasizes his/her strengths."

Parents are encouraged to assurance up for RaisingSmallSouls’ newsletter, that will affection appropriate and applied parenting tips, to advice them accession their accouchement to be the best they can be. “As parents,” Braun concludes, “The next bearing of acculturation is a albatross lying in our hands.”

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New Website for Parents of Children with Autism: AnAutismStory.com Launches

"An Autism Story," www.AnAutismStory.com, is a different new website that’s been created for parents by parents.

Morris, IL -- "An Autism Story," www.AnAutismStory.com, is a different new website that’s been created for parents by parents. The website contains account online autograph accounting to advice parents of autistic accouchement acquisition assets in their bounded areas, get banking abetment through artistic means, alpha bounded abutment groups, and cope with assorted parenting challenges. The agreeable is informative, but not artlessly bifold from the added Autism sites on the web. This website is different in that it addresses parents’ needs and helps break different problems such as award a acceptable dentist for your autistic child, tips on accepting able portraits taken, and demography a ancestors vacation.

The website creator, Karen Ferrero, is amorous about both Autism and the Internet. She has complete her career aloft such companies as Netscape, America Online and Sun Microsystems. Ms. Ferrero is currently an assurance administrator with Cisco Systems. She is the mother of two boys, ages two and four. Her four year-old son was diagnosed with autism at the age of 23 months. AnAutismStory.com grew out of her admiration to advice and apprentice from added parents.

Contact:
Ms. Karen Ferrero
"An Autism Story”
http://www.AnAutismStory.com

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Top Pediatricians Recommend ScreamFree Parenting — Thousands of Parents Value Breakthrough Approach

ScreamFree Parenting is the agitative new access to parenting that’s revolutionizing ancestors relationships everywhere, acceptance parents to be calm, air-conditioned and affiliated with their kids. My parents are consistently analytic for assets to abetment in their parenting I assuredly begin a parenting access that is not alone abundant for kids, but added chiefly abundant for parents. I acclaim ScreamFree Parenting to all our families. We’re actual aflame to be alive with pediatricians like Gwinnett Pediatrics As the aboriginal assumption of ScreamFree Parenting suggests, parenting is not about Kids, it’s about parents We are the alone ones we can ultimately control, so by alive on ourselves, we can become a loving, abstracted ascendancy in our homes. As a result, our kids accept the best adventitious of acceptable what we ambition them to be.

ATLANTA, GA -- We’ve generally heard what “4 out 5 doctors recommend,” but what parenting access do “9 out of 9” pediatricians at a arch Atlanta across pediatrics’ convenance recommend? ScreamFree Parenting. ScreamFree Parenting is the agitative new access to parenting that’s revolutionizing ancestors relationships everywhere, acceptance parents to be calm, air-conditioned and affiliated with their kids. And pediatricians adulation it.

Pediatricians are the aboriginal point of acquaintance for parents. They can become the counselor, teacher, even the therapist for parents who are balked with the challenges of adopting kids today. They are trusted guides, aboriginal alms advice with issues of agriculture and sleeping, and ultimately acceptable with added complicated parenting challenges of absurd training, behavior issues or discipline.

Yvette Quisling, MD, a pediatrician at Gwinnett Pediatrics, is a mother of three herself, so she can see all abandon of the challenges that face parents today. Gwinnett Pediatrics is a top Atlanta across convenance with three branches, and serves abounding bags of families with affliction from bearing to adulthood. Parents accompany their accouchement to the doctor to accord with the archetypal aqueous nose, flu, or adolescence vaccine requirements, but they generally accept questions about kids listening, if they should be accomplishing their homework, or how they can quiet them at the grocery abundance if they get out of hand. Seeing some of this affectionate all-overs out there is what has apprenticed Dr. Quisling to allotment the ScreamFree Parenting approach with her patients. “My parents are consistently analytic for assets to abetment in their parenting,” said Dr. Quisling. “I assuredly begin a parenting access that is not alone abundant for kids, but added chiefly abundant for parents.” She continued. “I acclaim ScreamFree Parenting to all our families.”

Hal Runkel, LMFT, the architect and architect of ScreamFree, has presented this advance parenting program to standing-room-only crowds of Gwinnet Pediatrics’ Parents. He aswell presents to schools, churches and companies. The access is absolutely unique, as clashing a lot of parenting programs, it teaches parents to focus added on themselves, and beneath on their kids. “We’re actual aflame to be alive with pediatricians like Gwinnett Pediatrics,” said Mr. Runkel, a Marriage and Family Therapist who has been administration ScreamFree Parenting with families for abounding years, with abundant success. “As the aboriginal assumption of ScreamFree Parenting suggests, parenting is not about Kids, it’s about parents,” he continued. “We are the alone ones we can ultimately control, so by alive on ourselves, we can become a loving, abstracted ascendancy in our homes. As a result, our kids accept the best adventitious of acceptable what we ambition them to be.”

To apprentice added about ScreamFree Parenting, including abide presentations, audio programs, DVDs, and the award-winning and acknowledged Book, appointment www.screamfree.com.

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New Website Taps into the Minds of Clever Parents

Clever Parents the website for smart, acknowledged parents has clearly launched. Clever Parents is altered from added parenting media in that it focuses on parents, not just parenting.

Raleigh, North Carolina (/PRWEB ) April 19, 2006 -- Clever Parents (www.cleverparents.com) the website for smart, acknowledged parents has clearly launched. Clever Parents is altered from added parenting media in that it focuses on parents, not just parenting.

Clever Parents curtains into an accretion association of smart, acknowledged parents who accommodate approved columns, account and artefact admonition about a array of affairs topics. The website aswell highlights Clever Parent entrepreneurs and ‘parentrepreneurs’ with affection interviews.

The website is for parents who accomplish the a lot of of every day and every dollar and who do it in a way that is clever. By parents, Clever Parents agency moms and dads. No gender has a cartel on acceptable parenting.

“When you become a parent, your activity changes, but it doesn’t end. Your priorities change and the variables increase, so you accept to be able to get it all done. We capital a website that not alone focused on parenting, but on parents and their interests above parenting. And by parents, we beggarly moms and dads. Too generally parenting accompanying media is alone mom oriented,” said co-founder Kris Jackson.

The website is broken into sections accoutrement capacity of absorption to parents—and comes from ancestor columnists and submissions from website visitors. “I anticipate the absolute acknowledgment we accept about the site’s agreeable comes from the assortment of our contributors,” said Kris. “For example, we accept a dad columnist who is a committed foodie and a mom columnist and bazaar buyer who writes about style. Plus we accept two admirable contributors who accept aggregate kitchen and ‘Clutter Busting’ checklists for parents to download. We clue what’s accepted and pay absorption to feedback. Our job is to be caretakers for the community.”

In accession to agreeable from parents, addition different affection of Clever Parents is the spotlight on parentrepreneurs. “There are millions of businesses run by parents in America,” said co-founder David Jackson. “We’re seeing a lot of businesses pop-up as additional sources of assets now that one of the parents is blockage home. Some of the businesses are home-based; some are run full-time, others part-time. I anticipate we are borer into a trend.”

“The absorption we accept from ‘parentrepreneurs’ has been cutting and we achievement that featuring them helps their businesses and that their successes and struggles will affect added parents. As a parent, you are consistently bamboozlement assorted demands-children, work, family, hobbies; these spotlights personalize how others are accepting it done. The spotlights accumulated the community-generated agreeable from added moms and dads are proving to be actual popular. ”

About Clever Parents:
Clever Parents is the website for smart, acknowledged parents. The Clever Parents website is for all parents—Moms and Dads—who are addition out means to get the a lot of out of every day and every dollar and who do it in a way that’s healthy, fun, and… clever. Clever Parents enlists a association of Clever Parents for advice, content, articles and interviews that acquaint and inspire. Stylish, instructive, useful, inspirational, and sometimes irreverent, Clever Parents isn’t addition parenting website - it is a website for parents.

Media Contact:
David Jackson
Co-Founder
919.608.9502

Clever Parents
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Good for Boomers, Great for Their Parents: Web Site Solves Riddle of Caregiver’s Maze

One-stop Parent Care account saves caregivers time and money while abbreviation accent and acceptable seniors’ assurance and independence.

San Rafael, Calif. -- some seven actor U.S. boomers are limited caregivers today, with that amount accepted to access to 10 actor by 2010. While it is difficult abundant to accomplish abreast affliction giving decisions for aged ancestors active nearby, aggravation and all-overs access if aggravating to abetment parents who abide 500 afar away.

Parent Care architect William F. Gillis knows this bewilderment first-hand. As a boomer amenable for the long-distance affliction of an aged parent, parents-in-law and ancestors over the accomplished decade, he has encountered abundant obstacles, hit abounding dead-ends, and endured again frustrations block “answers” that angry out to be incomplete, outdated, awfully big-ticket or non-existent.

Rather than let the acquaintance abase him, however, he was inspired. His solution: the conception of Parent Care, Inc., an Internet-based ability for continued ambit caregivers. Launched in May 2005, Parent Care provides tailored “road maps” to abyssal the bewilderment of medical, financial, legal, amusing and affecting issues that appulse the abundance of crumbling admired ones. The different web website delivers absolute national, accompaniment and bounded assets to the computer desktops of the country's millions of limited eldercare providers.

For about a dime a day ($9.99 per quarter), anniversary Parent Care subscriber receives a alone home page with one-click acceptance to an arrangement of casework that are advantageous to all caregivers - melancholia advice (e.g. flu shots and tax help), alternate account online autograph by eldercare experts, account chats with peers, circadian eldercare tips, and 24/7 chief account additional links to biologic manufacturers’ accommodating abetment programs, chargeless appurtenances and services, abatement forms and harder to acquisition chief affable products.

Then there is specialized advice for limited caregivers including the Parent Care Report, an eight to 10 page abundant arbitrary of bounded services, supplemented by civic and accompaniment chief services. State-by-state earlier disciplinarian regulations and even links to bounded Better Business Bureaus to analysis the backgrounds of account providers are included.

More than artlessly acclamation crises, Parent Care aswell emphasizes proactive measures. This “ounce of prevention” can advice abstain bearded knee jerk reactions to the bottomward contest accepted with eldercare. Each of the added than 3,300 annual letters (one for anniversary canton in the United States) provides links to advice caregivers appraise their parents’ absolute needs, added links to locate the abetment required, and a array of links to advice caregivers ahead (and adapt for) abrupt events.

The all-embracing website aswell includes admired checklists to enhance parents' approaching assurance and independence.

“When we apperceive that over two actor seniors ache adverse biologic reactions annually, with ten percent consistent in fatalities, we ambition to advice anticipate medication accidents.” Gillis said. “We’ve produced a pharmacist-reviewed anesthetic chiffonier account that allows the seniors’ bloom affliction aggregation to analysis the absolute capacity of seniors’ anesthetic cabinets and analyze accessible dangers.”

“In a agnate vein, because over bisected of the one actor seniors who abatement at home anniversary year ache injuries consistent in absent independence, we’ve developed a account for breed to analyze and abolish hazards to advice abstain falls.”
Beyond the allowances for aged parents, Parent Care assists caregivers by abbreviation their stress, and extenuative them abundant time and money – abundant bare because they:
 

Live 450 afar from their parents. Have pre-college adolescence at home, and absorb over $4,700 (the agnate to a year’s accessible academy tuition) on account of their parents. Will advance 17 years appearance children, and 18 years caring for aged parents. Miss two to three canicule from plan anniversary ages due to affliction giving responsibilities, and the agnate of addition abounding day per anniversary ecology the bearings aback home. Report that the accent of caregiving is abnormally affecting their health. Could cost up to $600,000 in salaries and allowances by abbreviation plan schedules or resigning jobs.
For those acceptable parents in one area and ancestors in another, a bargain fee ancestors cable is available. Small administration can aswell accommodate subscriptions as a account to caregiving employees.

“We accustomed our fees to be both bashful and flexible,” Gillis said. “We accept the dime a day investment doesn’t present an obstacle, abnormally if subscribers may save hundreds or bags of dollars application Parent Care. We aswell action bound continuance subscriptions in the accident there is a abrupt change of circumstances.”

As Parent Care emerges from its accepted analysis bazaar phase, which generated several thousand subscribers worldwide, the aggregation expects in balance of 100,000 subscribers by year-end.

About Parent Care, Inc.
Parent Care is the arch provider of eldercare advice for the nation’s seven actor continued ambit caregivers and the firms that apply them. Parent Care, The Parent Care Report and The Parent Care Channel are registered trademarks of the firm.

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Parents.com Unveils Top 100 Baby Names of 2008; Offers Baby Name Finder to Search for Unique Names and Baby Name Meanings

Online home of Parents magazine, Family Circle annual and American Baby annual says top baby babe names are Isabella and Ava, top baby boy names are Aidan and Jayden.

New York, NY January 6, 2009 -- Parents.com has apparent the top baby names of 2008. According to website visitors, Isabella is the top girl's name and Aidan is the top boy's name for 2008. Parents-to-be best these names from the about 10,000 names in the Parents.com Baby Name Finder which enables visitors to seek for different names and acquisition baby name meanings.

Liz Zack, Executive Editor of Parents.com, said, "The votes for 2008 are in! According to our parents-to-be, Aidan is at the top of the account of baby names for boys for the additional year in a row, while Isabella skyrockets to #1 on our account of baby names for girls for the aboriginal time ever. Read the blow of the names our readers adulation as able-bodied as our crop on the top trends -- and get inspired."

Parents.com is the online home of Parents magazine, Family Circle annual and American Baby magazine.

The top baby babe names of 2008 are:
1.   Isabella
2.   Ava
3.   Emily
4.   Elizabeth
5.   Abigail
6.   Madison
7.   Emma
8.   Addison
9.   Madeline
10.   Olivia

The top baby boy names of 2008 are:
1.   Aidan
2.   Jayden
3.   Jacob
4.   Michael
5.   Ethan
6.   Caden
7.   James
8.   Caleb
9.   Andrew
10.   Matthew

Zack aswell provided some acumen into the top trends in baby names and the best baby names for 2009:

Presidential Baby Names: Barack Obama won the admiral - but did he aswell alpha a name trend? Malia, Michelle and Barack -- which ahead wasn't even in the top 500 -- all rose in acceptance from 2007 to 2008 (although Sasha fell in popularity), and we see them continuing to ascend the archive afterwards the inauguration.

Ooops She Did It Again--The Britney Comeback Effect: Parents are all-embracing the aboriginal and average name Spears chose for her additional son, Jayden James. Jayden is #2 and James is #7.

The access of TV: The boob tube can affect baby names - attestant the acceptance of Aidan (#1), Carrie's loveable admirer on Sex and the City, or Addison (#8), the name of the Grey's Anatomy doc who got her own spinoff, Private Practice, this year.

Last Names as First Names That Can Be Used For Boys and Girls: Avery, Logan, Riley and Peyton are all aggressive the lists. Last names as aboriginal names advance power, authority and tradition.

First Timers Making the List: Aalyiah (#28) and Teagan (#44) fabricated their debuts on the account for girl's names. On the boy's side, Micah (#41) and Tristan (#49) showed up on the account for the aboriginal time.

Book it: Twilight agitation has hit the baby name apple too, as Edward and Bella, the names of the accursed lovers in Stephanie Meyer's vampire alternation and now the affection film, both rose in acceptance endure year. Other names aggressive by accepted fiction are Madeline (#9) and Olivia (#10).

"M" Names: Girl names starting with "M" rank top on the list, like Madison (#6), Madeline (#9), Makayla (#19), Mia (#21), MacKenzie (#22) and Michelle (#31).

Losing steam: Trendy boy names like Grayson took a nosedive this year, from #3 in 2007 down to #14 in 2008. Another name on the downswing? Kendall, which fell from #7 in 2007 to #45 in 2008.

About Parents.com:
Parents.com is the arch parenthood website on the Web, and the alternate accompaniment to Parents magazine, Family Circle magazine, and American Baby magazine. With its abiding of easy-to-use, accessible accoutrement like the baby name finder, the growing abdomen tool, the action finder, and the Birthday affair planning tool, Parents.com serves moms and dads, accouterment aggregate every ancestor needs to accession happy, advantageous families from bassinet to academy - how, if and area they charge it.

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Parents.com Launches Toy And Product Recall Finder To Locate Information On Car Seat Recalls, Recalled Toys, And More

New artefact recalls database includes advice and agreeable from Consumer Product Safety Commission, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and added sources We ambition to advice families acquisition advice on recalled toys, cribs, car seats and added products. Our new toy and artefact anamnesis finder includes anamnesis dates, pictures of recalled items and added facts parents should know.

New York, NY -- Parents.com has launched a toy and artefact anamnesis finder to advice parents locate advice on toy recalls, recalled car seats, and more. The new artefact recalls database includes advice and agreeable from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and added sources.

Dan Hickey, Editor-in-Chief of Parents.com, said, "We ambition to advice families acquisition advice on recalled toys, cribs, car seats and added products. Our new toy and artefact anamnesis finder includes anamnesis dates, pictures of recalled items and added facts parents should know."

For example, alarming car seats can affectation austere risks to babies and adolescent children, and it's important to chase instructions on what to do if your car bench has been recalled. You can use the Parents.com Product Recall Finder to locate analytical advice on the latest car bench recalls. This includes Britax Frontier Car Seats.

The Parents.com Product Recall Finder can aswell advice you calmly locate analytical advice on the latest toy and bold recalls to accomplish abiding your accouchement are safe and advantageous while they play. Hundreds of kids' toys and amateur are recalled every year because of top advance levels, asthmatic hazards and added austere risks. This includes the contempo anamnesis of Calypso Steel Toy Drums.

Hazards in the nursery can affectation austere injuries to babies and adolescent children, and it's important to apperceive what to do if your baby's bassinet or child's bed has been recalled. Regularly blockage the Parents.com Product Recall Finder can advice accumulate your kids advantageous and safe. For example, you'll acquisition advice on the contempo anamnesis of Jardine Cribs.

While the Parents.com Product Recall Finder is not comprehensive, its artefact recalls database includes advice on the afterward categories: Bathing & Potty Training; Books & Videos; Bottles & Feeding; Car Seats; Carriers & Slings; Clothing; Cribs, Beds & Furniture; Fisher-Price; Health & Safety; High Chairs & Boosters; Jewelry & Accessories; Mattel; Miscellaneous; Pacifiers & Teething; Play Yards, Gyms & Activity Centers; Playground Equipment; Sporting Goods; Strollers; Swings & Seats; as able-bodied as Toys & Games. For added complete advice apropos recalls, you should appointment http://www.cpsc.gov or, for car seats, http://www.safercar.gov.

About Parents.com:
Parents.com is the arch parenthood website on the Web, and the alternate accompaniment to Parents magazine, Family Circle magazine, and American Baby magazine. With its abiding of easy-to-use, accessible accoutrement like the baby name finder, the growing abdomen tool, the action finder, and the Birthday affair planning tool, Parents.com serves moms and dads, accouterment aggregate every ancestor needs to accession happy, advantageous families from bassinet to academy - how, if and area they charge it.

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Troubled Teen Son and His Mother Launch Website for Parents of Troubled Teens

ResourceToLife.com provides parents of afflicted adolescence with advisory parenting advice, recommended resources, and a admiring online community. As mother and son aggregation up, they allotment different insights and perspectives for parenting afflicted teens.

Allentown, PA -- ResourceToLife.com launched to accompany parents of afflicted adolescence together. Mother and son, who navigated the afflicted boyhood years together, accommodate parents with an online association and assets to added advice them ancestor their teen.

Jordan Adams, Founder of ResourceToLife.com, acquired a affection to advice families of afflicted teens, because he already was one. His mother, Barbara Adams, desires to advice parents for the aforementioned reason. As authors on the website, they action a affluent angle on afflicted boyhood issues because they accept both the angle of the teen, additional that of the parent. For example, boyhood assailment ability be the topic, but both mother and son accord claimed acquaintance and opinion. They accommodate well-written reviews in their blog about counseling, analysis centers, and articles and services.

ResourceToLife.com provides assets and advice about assailment and defiance, bistro disorders, actuality abuse, alcoholism, depression, suicide, self-image, pregnancy, and analysis options, such as adjust or behavior modification schools. The website is convenient and actual interactive, and contains advisory online autograph about the a lot of accepted issues ability afflicted adolescence today.

They aswell action chargeless updates and account via email, audio and book resources, and online forums. Parents can participate in the online forums and acquisition abutment and parenting admonition during difficult moments with their teen. They aswell apprentice about the able programs that advice afflicted teens, as able-bodied as those that don't.

Parents of afflicted adolescence generally feel abandoned and abandoned in their parenting. ResourceToLife.com provides a association area parents accommodated others who share, or accept aggregate their experience. "Parents from all over can accompany the online association and acquaintance actual how backbone is begin in community," said Jordan. Hundreds, acceptable bags of parents are analytic for advice with their afflicted teen, and ResourceToLife.com offers a safe, online association for those parents.

According to Jordan, "I was a afflicted teen, so I apperceive the difficulties I put my parents through. My mother accomplished them and acerb desires to abutment and chronicle with parents adverse those hardships. Because of our trials together, we've developed a affection to accommodate a association area parents can abutment one another. That's why we created ResourceToLife.com."

ResourceToLife.com believes in accouterment and allotment parents of afflicted adolescence to ancestor well. In the abreast future, they plan to host online seminars and workshops, so parents can apprentice added about their adolescence and able parenting strategies.

About ResourceToLife.com
Jordan Adams founded ResourceToLife.com, a website committed to training and accouterment parents of afflicted adolescence to administer behavioral problems at home. Resourcetolife.com casework cover mentoring, online community, and assets that empower parents. For added advice about ResourceToLife.com, amuse appointment http://www.resourcetolife.com.

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Enter Your Cute Baby Pictures into Parents Magazine Cover Kid Photo Contest for Chance to Win $10,000 Cash Sweepstakes

Upload up to six beautiful kid pictures to the Parents.com online baby photo contest. Parents annual will baddest the two cutest accouchement to appear on the November cover. Any mom or dad who uploads up to six beautiful kid pictures to the online photo challenge at Parents.com will aswell be entered into a banknote sweepstakes that will accolade a $10,000 banknote cost to one advantageous winner. There are so abounding attractive kids out there Judging is traveling to be a huge but fun challenge, abnormally this year with the two age categories.

New York, NY -- The editors of Parents ambition moms and dads to abide their children's beautiful baby pictures to the magazine's anniversary awning contest. Judges will baddest two of the cutest accouchement to appear on the November 2009 issue's bifold cover. The winners will be called from two categories: one for kids three months to beneath than two years old and one for kids two to six years old.

Parents annual awning kid photo challenge

Photo entries can be uploaded to the Parents Magazine Cover Contest. Once photos are uploaded, parents will be able to use a arrangement to actualize their own Parents annual awning featuring their own beautiful child.

Any mom or dad who uploads up to six beautiful kid pictures to the online photo challenge at Parents.com will aswell be entered into a cash sweepstakes that will accolade a $10,000 banknote cost to one advantageous winner.

Parents annual board will analysis all of the photo entries and accept 40 semifinalists, 20 from anniversary age category, based on the belief set alternating in the Official Rules. From July 28 to September 3, visitors to the Parents Magazine Cover Contest website are arrive to casting their vote for their admired semifinalists. Voter recommendations will not be acclimated as belief in the anticipation of entries in any round.
Ten finalists, 5 from the two age categories, will be called to fly to New York City for a able photo shoot. Two winners from the photo shoot, one from anniversary age category, will be called for the November 2009 cover. The champ of the $10,000 sweepstakes will be notified by mail on July 8.

"There are so abounding attractive kids out there," says Judy Goldberg, Senior Editor of Parents. "Judging is traveling to be a huge but fun challenge, abnormally this year with the two age categories."
To access the Parents annual awning kid photo contest, upload up to six beautiful baby pictures afore June 24, 2009. Enter either at Parents Magazine Cover Contest (3 mos - 2 yrs) or at Parents Magazine Cover Contest (2 - 6 yrs).

Last year's winner, Trevor, appeared on the awning of Parents magazine's November 2008 issue. He was called from added than 80,000 entries. Trevor's access photos can be apparent at Share Photos: Photo Contest: So Cute!

About Parents magazine
Parents magazine has been America's amount one ancestors annual for added than 80 years. Since its birth in 1926, it has been a trusted antecedent by every bearing of parents. Currently, the annual is a able association of 15.6 actor readers adherent to acknowledging the efforts of parents, educators and added citizens who strive to accomplish the apple a bigger abode for our children.

About Parents.com
Parents.com is the arch parenthood website on the Web, and the alternate accompaniment to Parents magazine, Family Circle magazine, and American Baby magazine. With its abiding of easy-to-use, accessible accoutrement like the baby name finder, the growing abdomen tool, the action finder, and the Birthday affair planning tool, Parents.com serves moms and dads, accouterment aggregate every ancestor needs to accession happy, advantageous families from bassinet to academy -- how, if and area they charge it.

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Popular Luxury Organic Baby Blanket Designer Robbie Adrian Expands Line

A-List celebrities and parents accept to accouter baby (and themselves) with amoebic style. Successful blooming artist Robbie Adrian affluence organics has broadcast its accepted band of flush amoebic baby blankets to cover two new styles for baby and a new, comfortable amoebic bandy for parents! "We accept been captivated with the acknowledgment to our blankets", says Robbie Mahlman, President. "We acquainted acerb as designers and moms, that added boilerplate parents would buy amoebic if we added added blush and style" says Robbie. We accept been captivated with the acknowledgment to our blankets We acquainted acerb as designers and moms, that added boilerplate parents would buy amoebic if we added added blush and style We accept been captivated with the acknowledgment to our blankets We acquainted acerb as designers and moms, that added boilerplate parents would buy amoebic if we added added blush and style Our ambition with Robbie Adrian was to action parents a stylish, eco- affable addition to the archetypal baby blankets on the market With the apropos about chemicals in the news, parents are captivated to accept a accustomed absolute to bundle their baby in, that is aswell beautiful There was such a abundant acknowledgment to our antecedent line, we capital to aggrandize that by alms a absolute to amuse parents allurement for their own Robbie Adrian blanket Our developed amoebic bleed bandy is allotment of our piped cottony band and is warm, comfortable and affected - a abundant Mother's Day gift. Parents are blessed to accept a stylish, bright addition to beneath eco-friendly fabrics We are aflame about the new curve we are introducing Now we action an flush amoebic absolute for everyone!

El Dorado Hills, CA -- Successful blooming artist Robbie Adrian affluence organics has broadcast its accepted band of flush amoebic baby blankets to cover two new styles for baby and a new, comfortable amoebic bandy for parents!

Robbie Adrian's newest appearance Raspberry Polka Dot Silk Ruffle. "We accept been captivated with the acknowledgment to our blankets", says Robbie Mahlman, President. "We acquainted acerb as designers and moms, that added boilerplate parents would buy amoebic if we added added blush and style" says Robbie. The admiration to accept healthier, added eco affable fibers captivated about their baby, has buyers including abounding celebrities, lining up for beautiful Robbie Adrian amoebic blankets. Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Eva Longoria, Katie Holmes, Nicole Richie and even Kevin Federline, all own Robbie Adrian affluence amoebic blankets.

The latest additions to the baby band are a Natural Velour bolt with Raspberry and Ivory Polka Dot cottony trim, and a simpler piped cottony band that is affected and classic. Shown actuality is the new adventurer size, Raspberry Polka Dot. Both styles are a absolute allowance or emblem for that admired child.

The thriving, Mom endemic aggregation launched its band of colorful, 100% amoebic affection and accustomed cottony akin baby blankets endure summer and parents and celebrities are snapping them up. "Our ambition with Robbie Adrian was to action parents a stylish, eco- affable addition to the archetypal baby blankets on the market," says Susan Doris, Vice President. These fashionable amoebic blankets are sewn in the USA, with 100% US developed amoebic cotton, and appear in seven ambrosial colors, with analogous cottony trim, and are apparatus washable.    "With the apropos about chemicals in the news, parents are captivated to accept a accustomed absolute to bundle their baby in, that is aswell beautiful," says Robbie
   
"There was such a abundant acknowledgment to our antecedent line, we capital to aggrandize that by alms a absolute to amuse parents allurement for their own Robbie Adrian blanket," says Susan. "Our developed amoebic bleed bandy is allotment of our piped cottony band and is warm, comfortable and affected - a abundant Mother's Day gift."

"Parents are blessed to accept a stylish, bright addition to beneath eco-friendly fabrics," says Susan. "We are aflame about the new curve we are introducing," says Robbie. "Now we action an flush amoebic absolute for everyone!" The new band of Robbie Adrian affluence amoebic piped blankets sells for $66 and the developed admeasurement amoebic throws for $130.00. The new Raspberry Polka Dot retails for $46.00 - $118.00, depending on the size.

Robbie Adrian affluence amoebic blankets are accessible for acquirement on-line at robbieadrian.com or through baddest food and boutiques.

For added information, amuse acquaintance Susan Doris, VP Marketing (916) 798-2248 or at sdoris @ robbieadrian.com.