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Announcing the Spring 2014 Mobile App Awards!
Has all the memory on your favorite device been eaten up by gobs of games that turn out to be one-hit wonders? Wish you could find a list of apps that help your children learn in a playful and age...
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Time Out
Time Out! For many parents, “Time Out” is a negative consequence for unwanted behavior. You’ve probably heard yourself or another parent use the threat of the dreaded “time out” as a punishment or...
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Time Shift Your TV – Is your child bossy?
This past week, several celebrities helped draw attention to a new campaign launched by the Girl Scouts of the USA and Leanin.Org, the nonprofit organization founded by Facebook honcho Sheryl Sandberg,...
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The World As We Know It
Image via Aly Parrott Crimea and Malaysia are all over the news lately. Can your kids find these places on a map? Can you? Studies show that Americans–young adults in particular–are geographically...
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Fair Factories
This week marks the 103rd anniversary of New York’s Triangle Factory Fire, a tragic event that brought to light the dangers of child labor and unsafe working conditions in 1911. The majority of the...
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Time Shift Your TV – Little girls, pink weapons
Little girls like pink things, and little boys go for blue, brown and camouflaged. That’s the traditional thinking, and that’s how it often appears in the toy aisles. Girly items there. Boyish items...
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Talk Talk
Image via babyzone.com The most expensive schools? The smartest phone? The fastest computer? When it comes to giving the best advantage to our children, it seems like a natural conclusion that...
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SMS: A Primer for Parents in Social Media Speak
Your intrepid author on the left for Throwback Thursday. For those of us who can remember a time when there was (gasp) no Internet, it’s hard enough to navigate the technical issues of social media,...
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Time Shift Your TV – Ken Burns’ ‘The Address’
Ken Burns loves to delve into history. His 1990 miniseries documentary on The Civil War was the most-watched program ever on PBS. In a new 90-minute documentary, The Address, he is focusing on...
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What Would Shakespeare Say?
— “Frenemy” seems like a word that would have been coined in the 2004 movie “Mean Girls,” but it was actually first used in 1932. One would also think that Sherlock Holmes author, Sir Arthur Conan...
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