Reflective Lace is the safety-minded and stylish embellishment that makes bicyclists more visible at night. Now bringing similar reflective qualities to baby strollers is Wagalum, a German maker of self-adhesive strips designed specifically to keep young children safe while on the go.
Wagalum's reflective sticker set includes eight pieces in four different sizes to provide all-around visibility for babies in strollers. The stickers' microprismatic surface shines nine times brighter than comparable materials do, causing strollers bearing them to be seen six times earlier by other traffic participants and 85 percent less likely to be involved in an accident, Wagalum says.
Wagalum's reflective strips are currently available at a number of stockists in Germany, but the company aims to expand to other countries soon, and it welcomes dealer inquiries. Retailers of children's products: this one's for you! (Related: Five business ideas focused on babies & new parents — Color-changing sleep suit signals baby's fever.)
Saw the owner out front. Coffee, cafe and market with seating for 20. Features ingredients from locally sourced farms. Can't wait!
Introducing “daddy leave” in 1995 had an immediate impact. No father was forced to stay home, but the family lost one month of subsidies if he did not. Soon more than eight in 10 men took leave. The addition of a second nontransferable father month in 2002 only marginally increased the number of men taking leave, but it more than doubled the amount of time they take.Clearly, state money proved an incentive — and a strong argument with reluctant bosses.
The daddy months have left their mark. A study published by the Swedish Institute of Labor Market Policy Evaluation in March showed, for instance, that a mother’s future earnings increase on average 7 percent for every month the father takes leave.
The study showed that increasing girls' sports participation had a
direct effect on women's education and employment. It found that the
changes set in motion by Title IX explained about 20 percent of the
increase in women's education and about 40 percent of the rise in
employment for 25-to-34-year-old women.
Probably worth signing up for that gym class after all!
Chalk one up for the scientists, who for months have been dispatching door-to-door emissaries across the country to recruit women for an unprecedented undertaking: the largest, most comprehensive long-term study of the health of children, beginning even before they are born.
Authorized by Congress in 2000, the National Children's Study began last January, its projected cost swelling to about $6.7 billion. With several hundred participants so far, it aims to enroll 100,000 pregnant women in 105 counties, then monitor their babies until they turn 21.
It will examine how environment, genes and other factors affect children's health, tackling questions subject to heated debate and misinformation. Does pesticide exposure, for example, cause asthma? Do particular diets or genetic mutations lead to autism?
So much of this will be a waste of time, while a couple of nuggets of insight will pay for everything else.
Be on the lookout for a "tall woman with a small black dog" who was seen leaving our apartment lobby pushing our red Bugaboo, our green Maclaren Volo and someone else's $25 umbrella stroller stacked up. Just walked right out of building in broad daylight.
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