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The first day of school has come and gone for some of you and will be here in no time flat for the rest. And with it comes those inevitable trips to the grocery store for snacks and staples to feed the troops at home and send along in lunch boxes to school. I know [...]
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There it was, sitting on my kitchen counter. A deceptively simple kit containing a small plastic tube with a screw-on top and a well-padded return envelope. All I had to do was spit in the tube and send it back, then wait for the world of information they promised. But I hesitated. Glancing at that [...]
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Back in the day, when kids approached adolescence they would start spending countless hours gabbing away on the telephone. By the time they hit their teens it was practically impossible to get them off. The telephone was THE main social connector and the dream-of-dreams for most kids 12 and up was to have one tucked [...]
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You know how inspiring it can be to watch Cesar Millan work his magic with dogs, or see Buck Brannaman (the real-life Robert Redford character in The Horse Whisperer) soothe an unmanageable horse. It’s almost as if there’s some magic connection that you can’t see or hear. You know it’s there, but it transcends the [...]
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We recently had the opportunity to talk with Shonda Schilling, wife of baseball great Curt Schilling, about her new book, The Best Kind of Different: Our Family’s Journey with Asperger’s Syndrome. In it she talks about life with her 10-year-old son, Grant, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s three years ago. We knew that this mama would [...]
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Last week I took Daughter, age 16, to see her pediatrician about a couple of minor problems. She needed a recheck of her mild acne and wanted to discuss possible remedies for the irregular periods that drive her crazy in light of her sports and activity-filled life (yes, she’s given the OK for me to [...]
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Who says that fun in the summertime has to be expensive? Not me, that’s for sure, especially when you’re talking about entertaining young children. This summer give your pocketbook a vacation …
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Okay, we’ll own it. Sometimes we can be a little bossy and opinionated. No surprise there. But just in case you haven’t had the chance to rabidly disagree with our point of view yet, we wanted to give you another opportunity. The other day we were having one of our regular “staff meetings” where we [...]
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One day when my oldest son was a wee little 2 1/2 years old, we were out for a drive. He was securely fastened in his car seat, sucking contentedly on his pacifier and rubbing his “blankie” between his fingers the way he did when he was sleepy, happy and totally relaxed. I was driving [...]
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Is it just me, or are you all noticing a weird phenomenon in this generation? Kids today are super-accomplished in so many ways, and, shall we say, somewhat lacking in others. They regularly score in the 98th percentile on school achievement tests. They juggle homework, sports practices, tutoring, and extracurriculars like little multi-tasking adults. They [...]
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