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Summer Activities for Children
Summer means one thing if you're a parent — really bored kids who think you're responsible for entertaining them even though in the real world, the one in which you live, there's no such thing as...
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Teaching Children How to Clean
Teaching children how to clean is a challenge worth undertaking. Children who are thoughtfully and patiently taught how to clean feel they are important, valuable and helpful. These life skills will...
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Top 10 Classic Playground Games
According to an MSNBC Today report, outdoor play is developmentally significant and helps children become high-functioning adults. Detach kids from the computer and TV screens and let them experience...
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Children’s Safety: 10 Tips
Make safety a priority when it comes to your children with these simple steps. Install safety locks. That blue liquid you use to clean the windows looks like a delicious blueberry beverage to...
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Children and Strangers: How to Protect Your Kids
On average, 2,185 children are reported missing daily, reports the U.S. Department of Justice. That number equals 797,525 kids missing in one year. Parents must be alert to the potential dangers...
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Sharing with Others
Your heart, as a parent, warms when your toddler extends her hand offering a bit of her cookie. Sharing a nibble of her treasured treat can be the start of a lifelong inclination toward altruism and...
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Springtime Activities for Children
The snow has melted. The flowers are blooming. These easy, inexpensive activities to do with your kids will help you appreciate that spring has finally sprung. Go to the park. Your kids have likely...
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5 Fun Factory Tours
Many people associate factories with smoke, soot and environmental hazards. These fun factory tours will undo a lot of those factory stereotypes. The U.S. Mint. Ever wonder where your pennies,...
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Easter Egg Decorating Tips
Celebrate the Easter holiday with fun, family-friendly activities everyone can enjoy. Decorating Easter eggs is a great tradition to establish with children of varying ages. It is also a tradition...
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What Is an Easter Egg Roll?
The welcome arrival of spring is often met with the Easter Egg Roll tradition and particularly the famous annual White House Egg Roll. Everyone can get in on the Easter Egg Roll fun. Discover what an...
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April Fool’s Day Pranks
A good April Fool’s prank should result in laughter and not death; fun and not humiliation; triumph and not your coworker pounding you to within an inch of your life. These 10 should meet the...
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Tips for Staying Fit as a Family
For the Miller family of Woodland Park, Colo., physical fitness is a family affair. Kevin and Teri Miller have found that exercising with their seven children not only keeps them healthy, it...
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Tips for Raising Responsible Teens
Amy Stewart Wright, 31, of Granite Quarry, N.C. (pop. 2,930), says her teenage son usually does his homework and after-school chores on time. But lately, Bret, 13, has been putting things off until...
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Eco-Friendly Baby Shower Ideas
A new baby is pure and innocent. Celebrate the coming of this pure, untouched life with an eco-friendly baby shower. An eco-friendly baby shower can be elegant and simple to plan with a few tips and...
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Baby-Shower Games
Baby showers offer the perfect opportunity for friends and family to celebrate the impending arrival of a new life. Baby shower games should be uncomplicated and appropriate for guests of all ages....
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Deaf Bulldog Teaches Compassion to Kids
Deborah Pack cheers on her prekindergarten pupils as they practice their writing at Outreach Christian School in Avondale, Mo. (pop. 440). “Reach for the sky. I’m a Y!” Pack says with outstretched...
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Prom Night Safety
Prom night is the most magical night of the year for many teens. Planning and preparation for prom can begin months in advance. It’s typically the biggest social event of the high school year....
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Free Summer Activities for Kids
When school lets out and the temperatures heat up, it’s time to spend some fun time together as a family. Forget pricey excursions — save money but have big fun with these five free summer activities...
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Potty Training
It’s a great time of life. You and your child are ready to dump the diapers and command the commode. Potty training is a process that seems endless at the time, but will be over before you know it. If...
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DIY Driving School for Teens
“Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, accounting for more than one in three deaths in this age group,” reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Impulsive...
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