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Say What?! ParentDish Team Comes Clean on Cursing

by Honey Berk, Posted Jul 14th 2010 1:00PM

You kiss your mother with that mouth? Illustration by Christopher Healy
Recently, we met a woman who revealed to us her best-kept parenting secret: For 30 minutes each week, in the privacy of her home, she lets her 8- and 11-year-old kids use ...
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Can Bad Initials Sink My Baby's Name?

by The Name Lady, Posted Feb 19th 2010 11:05AM

I am pregnant with my fourth child. My previous three children have names beginning with, in order, T, B and A. My favorite names for this baby are Gerard if a boy and Genevieve if a girl, but my husband says that the kids' initials taken together ...
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Censorship in toys

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Jul 6th 2008 1:00PM

About a month ago my husband was playing around with one of our son's toys and realized it was censored. The toy in question is a Leap Frog brand caterpillar called an Alphabet Pal with letters on each of its twenty-six legs. Among the things you ...
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Words we don't use

by Sandy Maple, Posted Feb 23rd 2007 10:00AM

When Ellie was learning to talk, we were in awe of everything that came out of her little mouth. Watching a child develop language skills is fascinating. Because she was learning to talk by listening to us, we became much more aware of our own words ...
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