Mother Shops Best: Top 10 Tips for Confident Family Car Shopping

ParentMap and Carter Subaru have partnered to bring you helpful content related to car safety and maintenance. This month: Car-buying tips for the family's toughest customer: Mom. Women are often referred to as their husband’s “better half.” Sure, Dad deserves plenty of “better half” props himse

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How to Find Child Care for Children with Special Needs

An interview with Marty Jacobs, MSW and Family Services Director at Child Care Resources What services does Child Care Resources provide? Child Care Resources is an agency that has been around for about 20 years and our mission is to make sure that all children have a great start in life. Our main

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Homeschooling and Technology: The Allure for Modern Families

If Seattle dad Mike Beery knows his way around pixels and PhotoShop, it’s no surprise; he’s a seasoned graphic designer. More surprising is the fact that he manages his business alongside a bustling classroom—granted, the class convenes at his family’s Beacon Hill kitchen table, and the students are

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The Challenges and Rewards of Stepparenting a Teen

“You’re not my real parent!” Something that every stepparent dreads hearing. Words are powerful and may even make you question your worth and effectiveness as a parent. Take comfort, you’re not alone in this battle and to a large extent, statements like this are a normal by-product of adolescence.

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Hundreds more money-saving tips

Our writers went nuts for this story! Here are hundreds more tips that we couldn't squeeze into print! See the first 101 tips and tricks here! SHOP Shop bots, price alerts, coupon codes and little-known outlets: Here are dozens of our area’s best-kept shopping secrets. 1. Me 'N Moms consignment s

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Setting limits for your multitasking teen

Jeff* feels like he barely sees his 14-year-old daughter anymore — even when she’s at home. “She’s always on the computer, saying she’s got work to do,” he says, “but I know her school isn’t assigning four to five hours of homework every night.” He suspects Rosie is actually spending a significant a

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Now what? Paying for college in a tight economy

Planning for college started early for Tori Purnell and her husband, John. They opened a mutual fund when their daughter, Nicolette, was not yet 2. But you know what they say about “best-laid plans.” “We were anticipating we would have enough when she was old enough for college,” Purnell, who liv

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Boosting your child's 'MQ': Talking to kids about money

By now, most of us realize we need to pay attention to our kids’ emotional and cognitive growth. We understand so much more than we used to about empathy, compassion and emotional intelligence, or “EQ.” But what do we know about our kids’ MQ? That would be their money quotient. Do our children know

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