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Puzzles: Why Old-Fashioned Toys Never Go Out of Style

by Carrie Snyder, Posted Jan 22nd 2010 11:00AM

Sleepy days spent indoors: All parents who stay home with their children know these days well. Cabin Fever is right here, right now. Deep in the clutches of winter. We're snowed in, our senses dulled by lack of sunlight, our motivation to burst into ...
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Learning to play guitar online

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Mar 13th 2008 1:33PM

It's a law of nature, it seems. Teenagers want to be rock stars. Heck, I want to be a rock star. A lot of teens, however, share my problem -- they want to play guitar, but don't know how. Meanwhile, mom and dad are insisting on violin lessons. So ...
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Ten lessons from a little girl

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 20th 2008 4:01PM

Edward Mills is a "Law of Attraction Coach, Teacher, Speaker and Writer" and, while I'm not exactly certain what that means, I do understand his interest in personal growth. I also understand when he says his four-year-old daughter is "one of my most ...
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Driver's ed: homeschool or lessons?

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 28th 2007 9:58AM

Rachel was watching Grand Canyon (a great movie, but difficult to watch) and I came into the room as Kevin Kline was teaching his son to drive. She said to me, "that'll be you, in ten years." Jared will be eligible for his learner's permit in just ...
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Which instrument?

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 27th 2007 3:57PM

Jared has been quite clear as of late that we wants to learn to play the banjo. This is a change from previously when he had his heart set on the bass fiddle. The only thing stopping him at the moment is the high cost of banjos. Sara, however, has ...
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The greatest parenting lesson

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Mar 6th 2007 10:30AM

I have learned many things about Nolan's birth: the shocking depth of my capacity to love, the vulnerability of parenthood, the untranslatable beauty of newborn innocence. And this weekend, when Nolan hurt his foot, another life lesson hurtled in to ...
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Are kids really overscheduled?

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 22nd 2007 2:30PM

Jared and Sara both take swim lessons and acrobatics/gymnastics classes. We volunteer at a nursing home once a week for a couple of hours in the evening. Jared also takes taekwondo. We want to sign them both up for tap dance lessons (it runs in the ...
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Kids want more free time, fewer activities

by Jen Creer, Posted Jul 13th 2006 4:33PM

Thanks, Alan, for this tip. This article didn't make me feel guilty at all. Not one iota. In this article, writer Virginia Anderson points to a survey done by KidsHealth, a division of the Nemours Foundation, a nonprofit organization that studies ...
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