Here is a Bulletin of today’s Top Stories from around the world in Parenting.  These briefings have all been fact-checked by our Fact-Checking Department, thus ensuring that they have been fact-checked by our Fact-Checking Department.

• In a shocking report released by the national activist Parenting group Get Real, over 90% of the members of the American Academy of Pediatrics do not follow the organization’s guidelines regarding television watching and other forms of screen time when it comes to their own kids.  “Two hours a day?  That’s ridiculous”, one nationally acclaimed pediatrician is quoted as saying.  “We only say that about your kids because we don’t have to deal with them after their check-up.”  Another doctor, and father of twin infant boys, allegedly admitted that the only time he can ever shower is when he sticks them in a Pack N’ Play in front of re-runs of Dukes of Hazard.  “No TV before age 2?  What a bunch of jerks we are.  And, by the way, how awesome was Dukes of Hazard?”  The president of the AAP, Dr. Richard Sans Kids, has thus far not commented on the report.
• This morning, an area man resolved that his 5-year old daughter will not, after all, become the Next Mozart.  “About six months ago, she started banging the keys of our piano, and we really thought we heard something, something really special, like we found a talent lying deep inside her”, said the disappointed dad.  “But the piano classes just haven’t worked out.  After six months, she still has trouble sitting through the hour-long lesson, and can’t play even half of a Concerto.”  When he explained to the young girl her total failure, she simply said “OK”, and walked off to her play room, like nothing happened.  “It’ll take some time for her to process this”, said the father, as he picked up the scattered pieces of his broken dreams.
• Earlier today, police apprehended a group of 13-year old boys in a local park after receiving calls from concerned residents that they were playing a so-called “pick-up” game of basketball without any adults present.  “I have never seen anything like it”, said one of the residents, describing a chaotic, totally unsupervised scene.  “The kids were running into each other and setting picks and boxing each other out and fighting for rebounds, all without uniforms or coaches.  They were even arguing about whether someone’s foot stepped out of bounds.  It’s almost like they were keeping score.”  Police confirmed that no adults were anywhere in sight, and that one of the teams even claimed to have “won” the game.  Complicating matters even further, when the police eventually returned the suspects to their homes, one of the parents allegedly confessed that her boy was instructed to walk home, even though it clearly had begun to get dark, thinking that was somehow an acceptable way to Parent.  The case remains under investigation.
• In anticipation of a possible major snow storm, a local school district in Southeastern Pennsylvania has taken the extraordinary step of not only closing all schools tomorrow, before the arrival of the very first flurry, but also for the remainder of this Winter and the entire Winter of the 2015/2016 school year.  At a press conference this afternoon, the District Superintendent defended the measure.  Speaking in front of the township’s only snowplow, he said, “As we have seen time and again here in the Philadelphia area, it may snow at some point during the Winter, and we owe it to our students and their Parents to take the guesswork out of determining when school will be cancelled.”  When a taxpayer asked if he should expect a partial refund on his school taxes for the cancelled portion of the school year, Superintendent Hasty demurred, stating that the cost savings would be re-invested in an additional plow.  “If we can get that number up to maybe like four”, he said, “then I think we can get our kids back to school in the Winter, and get our Parents back to being gainfully employed.”