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Summer is just around the corner and it’s important for many of us as parents to keep our children’s minds working during the summer. Outside play, swimming, museums and parks are all fun and important to visit during these months, but in case you want to add just a little bit more, the weekly themes may help you. You can include books, cooking, art
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We’ve traveled to some beautiful places, both with and without children. Both can be great experiences. Italy is one place we went without the kids. It was fantastic. This is a picture of Venice!  

If you think about it from a child’s point of view, being dressed by someone else must be a bit alarming at times. One second your arms are shoved down sleeves, then your legs are forced into tights and before you know it, a skirt comes down over your head and you can’t see or breathe properly. If you dress a child in a
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A potty is a more secure place for a child to learn toilet training than the toilet, where she will be sitting with her feet swinging well above the floor and perched on a seat that is much bigger and wider than her bottom. Many young children find a flushing toilet pretty scary—especially if they’re sitting on it! At some stage, however, your child
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Happy New Year! I am normally not a resolution type o’ gal, but I decided that it’s never too late to start. I am resolving to do the following 15 things sometime in 2007: 1. Go to the gym and take DS to the kid’s club while I’m there 2. Eat less junk food and drink more water 3. Take my vitamins 4. Re-do
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Most of us can never understand what another parent goes through when faced with decisions as presented in this article. From Scientific American: Parents of a severely disabled girl recently revealed that they took the dramatic step of keeping their nine-year-old daughter pint-sized to, in their view, give her a better life. The child, Ashley, has a condition called static encephalopathy, a rare disorder
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There seems to be a relationship between babies teething and babies having a fever. As some may know from reading Csara’s posts on the Baby Forums, our son is a slow teether. He is currently working on his molars and once again has a fever. 103 degrees to be exact. According to the table on this website, my son should be getting his canines,
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