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What Do Your Kids Think About?
Sometimes I'll catch my three-year-old son staring off into space, looking so pensive I just have to ask him, "Ronan, what are you thinking about?" He'll turn to me and say, "Gooky poopy head!" So much for deep thoughts. But I do wonder what my kids think about. My efforts at conversation with them are mostly thwarted — How was school?...
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They Say: Parents Don’t Care If Boys Get Fat
A study that set out to determine whether restricting what and how much your child eats would eventually lead to obesity (it doesn't; more on that in a second) uncovered a dirty little secret: Parents care more about keeping their daughters skinny than letting their sons get fat. That actually came as no surprise to me and probably not you ei...
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Young Lady GaGa Copycats Flood YouTube
I’m not one to get too bent out of shape if I hear kids singing along with Lady GaGa or Beyonce. Throughout primary school, I listened to songs with risqué lyrics (I remember performing a dance to “Like a Virgin” to my shell-shocked parents in fourth grade), and I didn’t end up pole dancing for a living. But neither did I videotape myself...
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6 Reasons Why It Sucks To Be A Kid Today
Rebecca Kelly feels very sorry for today's youth. We had it better. According to her, "back in the good old days, being a kid was awesome, but now today's youth is choking on yuppified bulls*** like organic nonsense, parental controls, and more." 1) Food is No Fun When we were kids we had lunches packed with Fruit By the Foot, Teddy Grahams,...
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Working In Fitness
We all know that exercise is the magic bullet for so many maladies that plague the modern parent: stress, sleep deprivation, lack of stamina to keep up with these constantly moving little maniacs (okay, maybe that’s just me), but finding a way to stay active along with the 19 million other things you need to get done in a day can be difficult. A...
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Third Grader Expelled Because He Made A Hit List
A third grader at a Hamilton, Ohio private school was expelled because of a "hit list" that was found in his desk. The list contained the names of a teacher and several students that he said he wanted to kill. Michael Mayo, the principal of the Immanuel Lutheran School, said that he did not believe the boy was actually going to harm anyone, but...
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They Say: Today’s Kids Are Rude, Here’s Why
Here's the argument: today's kids, so coddled by parents who prize a sizable self-esteem above all else, are turning into rude, self-absorbed little jerks who not only don't take "no" for answer, they've never actually encountered the word. Yes, that sounds about right. A reporter on MSNBC writes that experts say kids these days are ruder tha...
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How To Say No To The Kid Selling You Something
Let's face it, no matter how bad the economy gets, there's always going to be a kid knocking on your door with something useless to sell. For Scouts, for church, for school, for the poor starving children in Ethiopia (so they can finally get a break from Mum harping on about cleaning their plates). And, if you're anything like me, you buy it...
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On Taking The Kids
When I was doing last-minute planning for our D.C. trip to Obama's inauguration, I saw on a few websites that a great many people were bailing on the trip because it seemed too hard to bring the kids. It was going to be cold and crowded. There would be no heated areas, no changing tables. The ticketed areas banned strollers and food. Some commen...
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