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Getting School Ready
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Puppy Love: Your Child's First Crush
It’s not easy to be young and in love; ask any preteen girl. Most likely, she’s obsessing right now over a boy in her class — a boy who thinks having a girlfriend is cool, but is frankly more interested in who’ll be playing basketball with him after school.The gender gap is only one of the hurdles t
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Preschool Primer: Comparing the Different Styles of Preschool For Your Child
It seems like your little baby just took his or her first steps and suddenly it’s time to think about preschool. With so many choices and styles of preschools, it can be easy to get overwhelmed and paralyzed by the pressure to pick the “right” one. But knowing the types of preschools out there and w
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10 Steps to Finding the Right Preschool: A Parent's Checklist
There may be nothing that instills more fear and apprehension in parents than the task of finding the right preschool. The choices can be overwhelming, the deadlines are impossibly early, and the pressure to get it right is huge.Or maybe you're one of those laid-back parents who is not at all worrie
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Homework: Set Your Kids up for Success
“Let’s start the school year right,” you tell your child each fall. “It’s time to buckle down and establish good study habits. For starters, lose the Xbox and the remote control. And while you’re at it, color-coordinate your notebooks, keep an assignment checklist and label your folders.”At least th
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Protecting Play By Building Playgrounds: An Interview with Darrell Hammond
Darell Hammond, CEO and founder of KaBOOM!, grew up with seven brothers and sisters at the Mooseheart Child City & School, a residential group home outside of Chicago. There, he learned about volunteerism and leadership, and began to understand that great playgrounds make a big difference to kid
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Encouraging Girls in Math and Science: The Struggle Against Gender Stereotypes
While working at a science museum, I once observed a mother, toting a daughter past exhibits on dinosaurs, oceans and machines, approach an employee. “Where is the stuff for girls?” she asked. It’s a question that would ruffle the feathers of any female archaeologist, marine biologist or engineer.
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Learning Disabilities: How to Advocate for Your Child
Andy, a bright middle schooler, loved math, but when it came to tests, his scores would end up in the low B/high C range, his calculations cramped, barely legible and taking up every inch of space on the paper. He understood the concepts, but Andy just couldn’t align the numbers neatly enough on the
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Your Kid's Health: School Lunches and Nutrition
When I packed my kids’ school lunches, I relied on the tried and true: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; celery, overstuffed with cream cheese; a juice-box (fruit flavored!); and an Oreo cookie, maybe two. These days, that menu seems positively antiquated (so does the New Kids on the Block lunchb
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