Family & Parenting

Open your own Garden Gallery with the fun art of Moss Graffiti

Spring is coming and it’s time to go get outside. Make designing your garden fun for everyone this year by creating your own garden gallery. Check out the very cheap and easy, but effective power of Moss Paint.

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Activities for Kids: Going on a Garden Safari

At any given time your backyard is alive with some of the most interesting creatures you can imagine. In fact, if you have youngish children you can turn a visit to the garden into a wonderful nature safari.

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The hidden influence of social networks

Nichola Christakis looks at what is a relationship, what is social networking, and how we are influencing the lives of people we may not even know. Nicholas Christakis explores how the large-scale, face-to-face social networks in which we are embedded affect our lives, and what we can do to take advantage of this fact.

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Are You Spoiling Your Kids?

Discover solutions to parenting problems with parenting advice from The Parenting Doctor. Learn to identify and solve child behavior problems for the First Year, Toddlers, Pre-School, Elementary and teen issues.

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Parenthood: 12 tips for easing your ‘parent-noia’

Almost from the moment you know you’re pregnant, it begins — a cascade of anxiety touching on everything from health to finances. And as your child grows, so do your worries. Can she subsist on a diet of crackers and cereal? Why is he struggling to read? Now, let’s put these thoughts to rest.

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Kick Stress: 5 Tips for a better Work-Life Balance

Beat burnout by discovering ways to devote more time to the activities and people that matter most to you.

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Putting the boy to work

I came across this short post and just had to share it with you. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be a state of mind that lasts for long…

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101 Parenting Tips

All children are unique and there isn’t only one parenting method or even one parenting method that will work for the same three kids in one household.

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Family of fallen Marine to adopt son’s K-9 partner

In a move that is a bit unusual, the military has decided to retire one of their K-9 Marines and allow him to be adopted by the family of his handler.

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Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs “childish” thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids’ big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups’ willingness to learn from children as much as to teach.

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