Sending Your Child off for a Successful Sleepover

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There are a lot of milestones in a young child’s life, and once they reach school age these milestones seem to come faster and far more often. One day you’re worried that your child will never want to stay in his kindergarten class on his own without you there, then you blink and he’s suddenly [...]

Tips for Beating the Summer Heat

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Being hot in the summertime can be a bummer. Being hot in the summer when you’re pregnant, however, can be a special kind of nightmare. It’s hard enough to deal with the discomfort that accompanies final months of pregnancy without adding being a sweaty, hot mess to the situation. If you’re already feeling bloated and [...]

Multiple Sclerosis Is a Rare Risk for Kids

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When children start having trouble with their balance or feel numbness or a lack of coordination in their hands or feet parents and doctors don’t tend to immediately think about Multiple Sclerosis as a possible explanation, and with good reason. MS is a rare diagnosis in kids; only about 5 percent of all MS diagnoses [...]

Teach Your Children Bike Safety

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It seems like in the blink of an eye our kids go from wobbling along on a tiny starter bike with training wheels and us holding on to the back promising not to let go to hopping on their mountain bikes or cruisers and zooming off to head all around the neighborhood on their own. [...]

Foods to Avoid During Pregnancy

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The phrase “you’re eating for two” really is literally true when you’re pregnant. Another phrase might not be quite as literal, but it is also important to bear in mind when you’re expecting, “you are what you eat.” As a grown adult with a lifetime of immune system under your belt you may not give [...]

Telling Pneumonia From a Cold or Flu

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Even with the weather growing warmer there are still plenty of germs flying around in the springtime. In fact, this time of year when the weather tends to fluctuate wildly and people get much less careful about watching out for germs kids can be just as vulnerable to illness as they are in the winter. [...]

When Should Children Get a Summer Job?

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If you’ve got a tween or teen at home all summer long and you realize that they’ve gotten too old for playing in the yard all day and suddenly every activity they want to go do costs money and plenty of it, it may be time for your child to think about getting his or [...]

Pamper Yourself on This Pre-Mama Mother’s Day

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If you’re expecting, this is likely to be a special Mother’s Day for you. Granted, it might not be quite as special as next year when you’re holding your sweet new bundle of joy on Mother’s Day, but still you deserve to be honored and to have a special day. If you have other children [...]

Be on the Lookout for Poison Ivy

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You head out to a campground for a relaxing getaway with your family and after spraying the kids down to defend them against bug attacks you breathe a deep sigh of relief at being able to let your kids run wild without fear of any traffic around for miles. But if you want to have [...]

Use Allowance to Teach Important Financial Lessons

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When parents start encountering monetary dealings with their children for the first time these days, many of them go into sticker shock when they hear the going rates. You start to realize that you can hardly get away with giving your children a couple bucks a week for allowance once you hear that old showoff [...]

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