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know y Padded crib bumpers could be gone for good after the Senate’s recent passage of the Safe Crib Act. The bill would ban the manufacturing and sale of crib bump ers nationwide.
There are more than 33,000 museums in the Unit ed States, and two of the best – according to USA TODAY – are right here in the Bay State. According to readers’ votes, the Fruitlands Museum and the USS Constitution Museum are among the top 10 history museums in the nation, coming in at No. 2 and 5, respectively. The Fruitlands Museum, a Trustees property set on 210 acres in Harvard, is home to five collections showcasing Transcenden talists, Shakers, Native Americans and more. Bos ton’s USS Constitution Museum, known as “the voice of Old Ironsides,” explores how the oldest commissioned warship afloat was built, sailed, and preserved.
The cotton pads that line the interior edge of a crib were involved in more than 100 reported fatalities from 1990 to 2019, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safe ty Commission. In the US, there is no national safety standard on crib bumpers, but they are banned for sale in several other states. Meanwhile, the American Academy of Pediatrics says that they “have no place in a safe sleep environment.”
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“As a pediatrician, parent and grandparent, I cannot overstate how dangerous and deceitful crib bumpers are to infant safety,” said Dr. Moira Szilagyi, AAP president, who called the Safe Crib Act “a long overdue step that is supported by science.”
v Need a last minute Mother’s Day gift? Grab the vacuum. According to a survey by RetailMeNot, what moms really want can’t be bought. The top four things moms really want for Mother’s Day are: a clean house (34%); an acknowledgment that she’s doing a good job (32%); a break from the mom routine (30%); delivered breakfast, lunch, brunch and/or dinner (26%). Easier than you thought!
A new research report from Common Sense Media provides a clearer picture of what many have long suspected when it comes to media use by teens and tweens after more than two years of the pandemic: It spiked. The new research reveals that media use by 8 to 18yearolds has grown faster during the two years of the pandemic than it had over the four years before the pandemic began. While social media is popular among teens, and growing more popular with tweens, not all of them are enjoying the experience. Eightyfour percent of teens surveyed say they use social media, but only 34% say they enjoy using social media “a lot,” which is much lower than the 62% who say they enjoy watching online videos that much. The survey also found an “aging down” of social media. Children ages 8 to 12yearolds, an age group that is technically not allowed to have access to the main social media platforms, are using social media more and more, with 38% percent of respondents in the age group saying that they use some form of social media, up from 31% in 2019. BayStateParent | MAY 2022 | 7
