Important FDA notification out today: The FDA is expected to issue a warning telling parents not to give any cold medicines to children under two years old “because serious and potentially life-threatening side effects can occur.” We first heard about this last fall, when there was a recommendation not to give medicines to children under six, however today’s announcement is the first time the government is ruling on this, as there are fears that parents did not take the previous warning seriously enough. So please, have a look in your medicine cabinet and safely dispose of these medicines.

Girls can face prejudice in college applications. Recently, I wrote about how girls are outperforming boys in school. Well, this is turning into a negative thing when it comes to applying for college. Some colleges admit to accepting boys of lesser qualifications than their girl counterparts only to keep enrollment somewhat equal in the schools. NBC has an interesting series, The Truth About Boys & Girls, and in one of their most recent segments they speak about this. I imagine a lot of girls are not happy, and personally (from a female POV) I don’t like this and would be disappointed if someday my daughter did not get accepted to a college for this reason. Likewise, I would not want my son to be accepted if he did not have the real qualifications required.

I remember years back when I applied to school and I was filling out the forms where they ask a lot of personal information. I remember being frustrated that some minorities were being accepted with lower scores so that schools can meet their quotas, and I am thinking that this is not too much different than that. However, it is really disappointing to know that you had what it takes to get into your school of choice, but it didn’t work out due to reasons out of your control. If this happens to my daughters, I am going to offer up some good ole “mom advice” that everything happens for a reason and sometimes we don’t understand why, but we just need to have faith that it will all work out well in the end.”