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Raising a Grateful Child

This is the time of year when parents scramble to find the right gift or give the perfect holiday experience ...

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Top Ten Worst Holiday Gifts for Kids

How many times have you watched your child open a bad holiday gift and your heart sinks, because they love ...

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The Underwear Machine: Teaching Kids Creative Play

When my first two kids were in kindergarten and second grade, they stopped playing together. They started fighting over anything ...

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What is the flu really?

I was eight years old the night that Elvis Presley died. I wasn’t really old enough to know who he ...

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Extra-curricular madness: Are your kids over-scheduled?

I’m enjoying mommy fall break right now—those few weeks between the end of soccer season and the beginning of winter ...

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Spoiled Kids: Is it them or was it us?

Roald Dahl rightly put it in1964 in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, “A girl can’t spoil herself, you know.” The ...

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Combating the Flu – 5 F’s

The 5 F’s of FLU season! : Combating the Fever, Fatigue, Frustration, and Fear of one nasty Flu virus. It ...

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Sleep your way to better health

One Amazingly Simple Step to Reducing Injuries in Children, Decreasing Obesity Rates, Improving Social Success and Increasing School Performance: Sleep ...

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To Spank or not to Spank

When my mother had her first child my grandmother visited her in the hospital and gave her a wooden spanking ...