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Consume Less, Live Better
You may have noticed that green is the new black when it comes to raising babies these days. A swing back to cloth nappies and wooden toys shows that parents are starting to question the impact their families are making on the environment. Journalist and yoga teacher Debbie Hodgson (pictured right) has written a guide for parents keen to move to...
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10 Kids Movies That Were Better Than The Book
Another Harry Potter movie opens soon, and so begins another round of criticism about how the film does or doesn't live up to the book. But for all that griping about the books done wrong by Hollywood, what happens when the movie is really better than the book? Check out these kiddie flicks that rocked the books. — Jeanne Sager 1. Shrek...
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My Date With Dr. Ferber
L.A. may be the city of dreams. But, for us parents, Boston is the city of sleep. All of the greatest pediatric sleep doctors practice there. You can feel the pulse of their giant brain-veins as you drive down Longwood Ave. and Storrow Drive, past the medical Walk of Fame: Boston Children’s, Beth Israel, Mass. General, Dana-Farber. Homes to th...
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Let’s Talk About God
They say you should never talk about religion or politics at the dinner table, but Mark Macleod wants to bring God back to kid's bookshelves. The author of a new children's picture book, God Is, Macleod turned his hand to writing after a successful career as a publisher and lecturer in children's literature. He was raised as a Presbyterian but turn...
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5-Minute Time Out: Ziggy Marley
There is no bigger name in reggae than "Marley," and Ziggy, son of Bob, is holding up the family moniker with pride. He's won four Grammy awards and released two hugely popular albums. But perhaps more important to grade-schoolers, he also sings that jammin' theme song on PBS?s Arthur, and did the voice of Ernie, the Rasta jellyfish in the movie...
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Michael Lewis & Tabitha Soren
When Michael Lewis's new parenting memoir, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, arrived in the office, we snatched it up. The author of the glorious baseball book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2004), and the prophetic Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (1990), is one of America's leading non-fiction w...
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The Babble List: 25 Best Fictional Parents
Remember when you'd come home from a hard band practice, and your mum poured you a glass of milk and your dad offered homespun wisdom that made everything better? Wait, that wasn't your parents — that was Clair and Heathcliff Huxtable on afternoon Cosby re-runs. Pop culture has always been full of enviable parents, and for a generation of la...
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5-Minute Time Out: Dr. Penelope Leach
As anyone who's tried to balance a career with a family knows, what we do is practically impossible. That we manage to get it done: raise our children, keep our jobs, is a miracle owing much to our do-or-die spirit, and very little to a culture that pays lip service to the family while making it extremely hard to take care of one, especially in...
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