Jack Laughlin will start middle school every day with gym class.

What might be a nightmare for other middle schoolers is a dream come true for the 11-year-old Exton, Pa., student and his family. Jack has diabetes and as we reported earlier, he and his parents, David and Cathy Laughlin, argued he needed daily gym classes to recover from his post-breakfast sugar high.

Students at Lionville Middle School usually get gym classes two out of every six days. They spend the rest of their mornings in music and reading skills classes.

School officials initially said there was no compelling medical evidence to rearrange the schedule for Jack and he could get the exercise he needs through a school walking club and intramural athletics.

Now officials have changed their minds.

Students at Lionville Middle School in Exton, Pa. have morning gym class two out of every six days. David and Cathy McLaughlin say their diabetic 11-year-old son Jack needs more exercise than that.

School authorities disagree.

Gym classes rotate with music and reading-skills classes. School authorities tell the Philadelphia Inquirer that the McLaughlins have been offered exercise options for Jack that don't cut into those other classes.

Worried about what your little one's name means in other languages? A London company called Today Translations is charging to decode your baby names.

As an example, the company's chief executive Jurga Zilinskiene points to Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes offspring Suri, according to the New York Daily News. In Greek, the name means "farmer" or "earth worker." But in French, it means "turned sour." And in Farsi? "Red" or "fire." And how about in Italian? That would be "horse mackerels." (We didn't know what that meant, either, so we looked it up and it's a type of fish.)

Today Translations will look up your choice of name in 100 languages, what they call a "name translation audit," according to the News. The cost? 1,000 pounds, or about $1,700. Zilinskiene told the paper that this is not just for celebrities -- "the service will also appeal to ordinary folks who want their child's name to stand out."

A middle-school math teacher is in the hot seat for including an image of a toothless black man on a homework sheet, and at least one parent is calling the illustration racist.

The Courier Times in Bucks County, Pa., reports that the African-American parent of an eighth-grader at Lenape Middle School was so distressed over the image of a black, toothless man on her son's math homework that she kept the boy home from school the following day.

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"I couldn't understand what I was looking at," says the woman, whose identity was not revealed by the newspaper. The work sheet, titled "Solving Equations using Multiplication and Division!," featured a photo of a black man in a straw hat and a shirt and suspenders, his mostly toothless mouth agape. Underneath the picture is the grammatically incorrect phrase, "NO WAI!!!"

A father in Texas allegedly forced his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography. That's not against the law in the Lone Star State.

The girls' mother thinks it ought to be.

She is protesting a law passed by the Texas Legislature in the 1970s that allows parents to show children "harmful material." The law was intended to protect parents using graphic material to teach their children about sex.

"I understand in the '70s everybody wanted the government to stay out of their homes," Crystal Buckner tells The Associated Press. "I don't want to stop parents from having that right to teach sex education, but there's a big difference, and there's a line you shouldn't cross when teaching."

Buckner's ex-husband is not charged with a crime, but he is accused of forcing the girls to watch adults having hardcore group sex on the Internet. Unable to get criminal charges filed against him, Buckner has mounted a public crusade to get the law changed.

The National Rifle Association is pushing a new bill that would prevent adoption agencies in Florida from asking pistol-packing mamas and papas if they have guns in their homes.

The bill was prompted by the case of a Brevard County, Fla., couple who, when applying to adopt a child, were asked if they had guns in their home, according to NBC Miami. The Miami Herald reports that the couple, who was not named, contacted a lawyer who put them in touch with NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer. The lawyer told the couple that it would be easier to change the law than to sue.

Front-of-the-box nutrition logos are supposed to help you make healthier choices. But the Food and Drug Administration wonders if they're just misleading.

Amid those concerns, a national nutrition labeling program called Smart Choices, which had been embraced by big food companies, announced it was suspending operations. The program rolled out in August and awarded a green check mark to foods that met low fat, sugar or sodium content. But alarm bells sounded when sugary cereals got the green check, too.

Now the FDA is studying ways to regulate varying front food label nutritional facts from manufacturers and grocers.

Shannon Lea Dedrick was a seven-month-old Florida baby who went missing for five days in the fall of 2009 before she was discovered under her babysitter's bed.

Though Shannon was returned unharmed, the statistics surrounding the discovery of missing children are grim.

The U.S. Department of Justice reported that 2,185 children were reported missing each day in 2002, or 797,500 children in a year. The majority of those children were victims of family abduction, but 115 children were victims of a "stereotypical," which means the it involved "someone the child does not know or a slight acquaintance who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently," according to the Department of Justice.

How do you help prevent your child from becoming a kidnapping victim? The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children offers parents these safety tips:

1. Encourage children to check with a parent, guardian or other adult before going anywhere with a stranger.

2. Remind kids to take friends with them when playing outside, walking to school or going to the library.

3. Tell children to speak up if someone treats them in a way that makes them scared or uncomfortable. Kids should also be reminded to get out of the situation quickly. They don't need to worry about upsetting others.

4. Communicate with your children regularly to build an open and caring relationship. Children must understand that there is always someone available to help them.

5. Address these issues with teens and preteens as well as with younger children, as all kids are potential victims.

ParentDish has additional resources to keep your kids safe.

In her new book, Sarah Palin doesn't address the family drama with Levi Johnston, but said on 'Oprah' that she would welcome him to a turkey dinner. Credit: Amazon

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told Oprah that she is willing to bury the hatchet with Levi Johnston, baby-daddy to her first grandchild, and says that he is welcome at her Thanksgiving table.

Palin told Oprah that she's trying to move past the negative and concentrate on life without drama. Johnston, she says, is part of the family and she's willing to "bring him into the fold" and under her wing.

"And he needs that, too, Oprah, I think he needs to know that he is loved and he has the most beautiful child and this can all work out for good," she says in the interview, which is scheduled to run Nov. 16. "It really can."

But it doesn't look like he'll be taking a bite of her sweet potato pie anytime soon, according to Gawker. In an interview he did today with Playgirl, Johnston says of the former vice-presidential candidate's invitation, "You could tell by her laugh she was full of it." So much for that reunion.

The Palin family generates reams of tabloid coverage, and Johnston is among the principal players. From his mother's arrest for drug dealing to the infamous "Vanity Fair" interview wherein he did his best to further tarnish the already endangered reputation of the former vice presidential candidate, Johnston has done a lot to engender Palin's wrath.

"Liberty and justice for all?"

Will Phillips doesn't believe that describes America for its gay and lesbian citizens. He's a 10-year-old at West Fork Elementary School in Arkansas, about three hours east of Oklahoma City. Given his beliefs, he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, specifically because that one phrase, "liberty and justice for all," he says, does not truly apply to all.

That did not go over well with the substitute teacher in his fifth-grade classroom.

The Arkansas Times reports that he started refusing to say the pledge Mon., Oct. 5. By Thursday, the substitute was steamed. She told Will she knew his mother and grandmother and they would want him to recite the pledge.

Will told the Times the substitute got more and more upset. She raised her voice. By this point, Will told the newspaper, he started losing his cool too, adding: "After a few minutes, I said, 'With all due respect ma'am, go jump off a bridge.'"

You know the saying, "Pick on someone your own size?" Tell that to this reporter from Chicago's WGN-TV, who played a little b-ball with a child and proceeded to dunk on him, yell in his face and make him cry.

He almost redeemed himself. After the boy started crying, Pat Tomasulo said, "I feel like the lowest person on the planet right now." But then, the reporter took it back.

Hey, Tomasulo, we're curious...were you bullied as a kid?

Arvilla Marie Lilly Meinhardt of Golden Valley, Minnesota runs a day-care center out of her home. Problem: She pins kids to mattresses as discipline control.

Yes, you read that right. The 70-year-old Meinhardt told authorities she had been using this bizarre discipline method "for about eight years on 2- and 3-year-olds who attended her in-home day care," according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The charges against her are "gross misdemeanor malicious punishment of a child and false imprisonment."

According to published reports, local police came to Meinhardt's little house of alleged horrors in order to investigate claims by a girl who was cared for by Meinhardt from 2003 to 2006. The girl is now 7 years old and "recently told her mother that Meinhardt used safety pins to pin her to a mattress during nap time," according to the Star Tribune.

Children in New York state stay in foster care longer than necessary, according to a report published Nov. 10 by the advocacy group Children's Rights.

Advocates examined the records of 153 children in foster care and discovered that many children languish in foster homes for years because of a backlogged court system, inadequate casework and a bureaucracy that generally reduces kids to numbers, then files them and forgets them.

"All the elements of the system are working together to produce these bad results," Marcia Robinson Lowry, the executive director of Children's Rights, told The New York Times.