I love my play group. We have met almost every Tuesday for the past 15 months.   A few of the moms have become my closest friends.  And Peanut has started to learn to play nicely with the other kids and not take their toys.  That last statement was a lie.  Any day now…

Besides just making our weeks more fun, apparently, play groups have given Peanut another benefit.  This article from MSNBC explains a recent study showing that day-care or playgroups may help protect children against leukemia.  Kids who attended playgroups or day-care before age 2 had the highest rates of protection against the disease.  The article states that children who attended day-care or playgroups had as much as a 30% decreased risk of contracting leukemia.

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