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Dec.18.2010
Winter break is here and I am very much looking forward to not having to wake up at 6AM every weekday for two whole weeks. My house is about 35 miles(about 56KM) outside of the city. In order to get my son to school on time, I have to leave my house no later than 6:40, pick up a carpooler in a...
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Dec.13.2010
I have noticed more and more that my children are blind. I have been upstairs in my bedroom minding my very own business and all of a sudden I hear the sound of the voices of one of the three children that came out of my body as they yell the word that I so longed to be called and now the word...
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Nov.23.2010
Sticks, stones, and mean girls with phones, there is yet another way to further victimize tormented kids and it's coming from well-meaning adults.
My daughter was a victim of psychological bullying in school for seven years. She was recently diagnosed with post-traumatic (really ongoing ) stress...
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Oct.30.2010
A New World of Kids' Books on Barnes & Noble's Nookco
By SLJ Staff October 29, 2010
P.D. Eastman's Go, Dog. Go! (Random, 1966), Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama Red Pajama (Viking, 2005), and Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle (William Morrow, 1965) are just some of the over a thousand...
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Oct.18.2010
I have two daughters, k1 and k2. K2 started middle school this year and has the usual anguish over what to wear (Hollister out? Abercrombie & Fitch still in? Levis supercool now?), how to fix her hair (side bangs? bobby pinned? flat or curling ironed?) She struggles with the ghastliness of...
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Sep.13.2010
Not long ago I was asked by the Red Room staff to write an article for AOL Travel: http://news.travel.aol.com/2010/08/25/vancouver-with-teens/
Years ago my son and I were asked to help a non-profit that was writing a series of books about relationships between parents and their children. Those ...
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Sep.03.2010
Many people associate the end of Summer with the weather and the calendar. While these are two valid associations, they are no longer the dominant ones for me.
About the time I started feeling really responsible – for children, employment, an income stream, obligations, a home, a career, and...
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Sep.02.2010
Have you ever noticed how the little guys/gals get ignored? Children get dropped off at a sitter as if they were material items. "They're only kids" is such a common phrase in today's society. There are currently an estimated 75.2 million children between 0 and 17 in the United...
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Aug.31.2010
One of my motivations for writing my AOL piece about the values, benefits and importance of reading aloud to children is the potential it has for eradicating adult illiteracy. If we create generations of children that can read and love doing so, it automatically gets rid of the problem of...
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Aug.16.2010
“Are you telling me those albums I sold for practically nothing at a garage sale several years back are now worth something? Dang, I knew I should have hung onto those.” This was a recent conversation I had with a dear friend.
Now I’m remembering everything I let go. Let’s see, I had the...
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