What you need: You need a basketball hoop, basketballs, and baseball bats.

How to play: Divide the players into equally numbered teams. Give each team a basketball and a baseball bat.

The rules: One player at a time from each team will go to his baseball bat, bend over, put his head on the bat end, and circle it for five times while remaining bent over. Then he will pick up his basketball, dribble to the hoop, shoot a basket, and rebound the ball to bring back to his team. He tags the next player to go. This continues until all players have gone.

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Today's conventional wisdom seems to dictate that "cell phone" should be right there on the back-to-school shopping list along with markers, crayons and new shoes, but when did it become part of our cultural landscape to keep watch over our children 24 hours a day, even when they're in school?

A recent study conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 51 percent of 12-year-olds owned mobile phones in 2008. In 2004, that number was 18 percent. When my generation was 12 years old, we were just figuring out how to manage the Betamax player and this crazy new technology called a "personal computer."

Not to mention the fact that our parents actually relied on the proverbial village to help us make it to adulthood. We were surrounded by responsible adults who weren't named "Mom" and "Dad." We also had teachers, coaches and our friends' parents to look out for us. And you know what? Our kids are surrounded by those people, too.

We did not need an electronic monitoring device, which is basically what a cell phone becomes when you hand it to a 12-year-old. And, frankly, I fear that handing my child a cell phone would open up a Pandora's Box of media exposure that I really wouldn't be able to contain.

It's not unusual for parents to escort their kids to college. After all, there's so much stuff to haul, that bedbug cover really is a pain to pull on over the mattress and what if they forget to bring something critical to their safety or well-being -- like flip flops for the shower?

The college drop-off is a rite of passage that's existed for decades and it's a good thing, according to adolescent development expert Nancy Darling, a professor at Oberlin College and author of Psychology Today's Thinking About Kids blog. But, she says, it isn't just the kids who need help adjusting.

These transitions are especially hard for the person that's left behind -- the parent. Parents feel like there's a hole in their life when their child leaves the nest, Darling tells ParentDish, but the child is so excited that he or she may not feel the same way. And that can make things bad, because they're both in different places.

Santa Claus would love to score the surveillance gizmos some helicopter parents are hovering about with these days.

He may see you when you're sleeping. He may know when you're awake. But up until now, you could get on and off the school bus without showing up on anyone's radar.

Not anymore. Big Mother is watching you.

Parents in the Chicago suburb of Palos Heights know exactly when their kids get on and off the bus. The Chicago Tribune reports kids carry ID cards they must have scanned as they board.

A flash and a beep tells Mom and Dad the child is safely on the bus. Likewise, when the child arrives at school, another flash and beep assures parents he wasn't abducted by aliens en route.

Palos Heights is the second school district in Illinois to employ a little high-tech to reassure jittery parents.

Labor Day is just quickly approaching, which means it's time to kick off the flip-flops and lace up those new school shoes.

But you can make the transition a little easier for your teens with these clever back-to-school socks from Ashi Dashi.

Choose from pencil, notebook or composition styles or buy a three-pack and get one of each.

And who knows -- if you get their feet ready for school, maybe their minds will follow.

Available at Ashi Dashi for $11.99 each or $32 for a three-pack.

A 2-year-old chain smoker just came home from rehab. Break out the baby book -- it's time to start a new page.

While most parents forever cherish the first time their toddler gets out of rehab, there is concern Aldi Suganda will relapse and break into the cancer sticks again as he returns home today.

His mother, Diana, tells CBS News she felt powerless to stop him when he first took up smoking. But if the tiny tot starts smoking again, she adds, who can stop him?

"I don't know of what will happen in the future," she tells the network through an interpreter. "We surely hope he will quit ... But what can we do but accept it is as it is?"

A video of Suganda smoking went viral in May. The tot reportedly was smoking 40 cigarettes a day, and a news team from CBS tracked him down in the remote fishing village of Musi Banyuasin on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in July.

As a soap opera actress, Alicia Minshew was used to heavy doses of daily drama. What she wasn't accustomed to, however, was drama in her own life.

Minshew, who plays Kendall Hart Slater, the strong-willed daughter of Susan Lucci's Erica Kane on "All My Children," got a shock in August 2009 when she was six months pregnant and found out that the cast and crew were relocating the show from New York City to Los Angeles.

"We panicked when we got the news because my husband (Richie Herschenfeld) and I lived right around the corner from the studio in Manhattan and we had lots of family on the East Coast to help us out with the baby," the actress tells ParentDish. "Our master plan quickly went south."

The couple's daughter, Willow, is now 9 months old, and one month after returning to the set, Minshew, 36, shares why her real-life role as a mother played a huge part in her decision to move her family across the country.

PD: You play Susan Lucci's daughter on the soap opera. Did she give you any advice while you were pregnant?
AM: Yeah, she did. We were talking about working while you were pregnant and what to do when you get tired, nauseous or just need to put your feet up. I asked her what it was like to work once the baby arrives and she gave me great tips on balancing the two. Matter of fact, my very first day on the set almost nine years ago I got slapped across the face by my TV mom. Welcome to daytime TV and the start your new job. (Laughs)

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Zach Nash was shocked when he discovered he had one too many golf clubs in his bag a couple hours after winning a junior Wisconsin PGA tournament.

But rules are rules, and the 14-year-old from southern Wisconsin made a decision that might surprise some people: He disqualified himself and surrendered his medal.

"I knew right away I couldn't live with myself if I kept this medal, so it was pretty instantaneous," Nash said during a phone interview from his home in Waterford on Wednesday, his first day of high school.

In 1994, my husband and I had a daughter and named her Miley Elizabeth. Even though she was named way before people even heard of Miley Cyrus, people keep insisting that she was named after her and call her mean names because they do not like the Cyrus kid. My daughter hates her name now and wants to change it. I suggested we call her by her middle name but in our area there are a lot of girls named Elizabeth and pretty much any nickname for Elizabeth has been taken. She wants to change her name to Zarya because no one has that name and it means princess. Should we let her? I personally do not like the name Zarya and the name Miley Elizabeth means so much to my husband and me.

- Miley's Mom

Ah, your poor daughter! There she was, all set with a creative, unusual name that put a smile on people's faces, when a celebrity came along and stole it right out from under her.

"I don't want to be in this teacher's class this year." "I like my teacher from last year better -- why can't I have her again?" "But all my friends are in the other class." Are these common complaints heard in your household each new school year? Well, you may want to teach your kids a new refrain before insisting the school pull a switcheroo on any seating charts.

It seems like just when you get the hang of your child's homework and class party policies, it's time for summer vacation. And it's only natural to feel out of sorts the first couple of days or weeks of a new school year -- there is a lot to get used to, after all. But before you spend the second day of school lobbying for your daughter to be in the same class as her BFF, take some time to understand that the school has put some thought into where your child will succeed.

Moving a child around after starting with one teacher can cause disorder not only in your child's class, but in other classrooms in the school, as well.