Parenting

SoundQs

How is Amazon changing our lives?

Over the last year or so, the SoundQs team has gotten a lot of questions about one Seattle-based company. Amazon. Happily, KUOW's podcast Primed is finding answers to questions about how Amazon is changing our lives. Here's the first episode of their newest season, about Alexa and kids.

KUOW Newsroom

Washington parents can't opt out of MMR vaccine for philosophical reasons

More kids will need the measles vaccine in order to legally attend public or private schools in Washington this fall. That comes after a recent change to state law.

Unvaccinated students and staff barred from two Seattle-area schools after new measles cases

After a staff member at Issaquah High School and a student at North Creek High School in Bothell were diagnosed with measles, Public Health Seattle-King County and Snohomish Health District told the schools to keep out any unimmunized students and staff for at least three weeks.

A young Irish mom's painful decision

I was 16 and going to school; I lived in Dublin and was infatuated with this older fellow who was a jack-the-lad kind of fella.

All Things Considered

Drowning In Parenting Advice? Here's Some Advice For That

In her new book, Cribsheet, economist Emily Oster offers a lifeline to parents overwhelmed by contradictory parenting guidance. She offers a data-driven, and common-sense, approach to raising a baby.

Students pay 'rent' or lose their desks at this elementary school

Kent School District officials are looking into a money-management curriculum at a Covington elementary school that requires students to “rent” their desks and “buy” bathroom passes using classroom currency.