
I was flying and watched in both horror and sympathy, as a toddler got sick all over his mother mid-flight. As the mother heard her son begin to get sick, her knee-jerk reaction was to throw her hands under his chin in an attempt to catch it. Needless to say, this did nothing to contain the situation, but I was in awe of how calm she remained.

Earlier in the week, my active son was lying on the couch and being quiet so I knew something was up. It took just a quick look at his redder than rosy cheeks and tired eyes to know it was his temperature. My son and daughter have had just a few fevers, but the heat of their flushed faces and lil furnace bodies always causes me to worry.

Most tots don't like getting shots and many parents can't bear to watch, but it seems the process will continue as federal officials are now recommending that all children between six months and eighteen years of age get the flu shot. This will protect an additional 30 million minors.
A CNN article said:The age group was expanded this year because children are two to three times more likely to contract the disease than are adults, said Dr.

Even the most mundane of errands can end up in disaster if proper precautions aren't taken when tots are in tow. Seven-year-old Timothy Clark and his sister, 5, were playing at the laundromat while their mother cleaned clothes and fed her newborn. Things took a turn for the worse when the boy climbed in a machine that was supposedly broken, but it turned on and
trapped him inside while filling with water.