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Drinking, Voting, Driving, Having Sex Shouldn't Be Based on Age, Author Says

by Tom Henderson, Posted Apr 9th 2010 4:00PM

Dr. Robert Epstein says we don't give teenagers enough opportunity to prove their competence. Photo courtesy of Dr. Robert Epstein. Photo courtesy of Dr. Robert Epstein.
Dr. Robert Epstein says kids as young as 12 ought to be able to smoke, ...
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Teasing is Good for Kids?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jan 6th 2009 2:00PM

Back in my own school days, there was a kid everyone referred to as Tank. The nickname was a play on his last name and a comment on his enormous size. Another kid was called Pep. As in pepperoni-pizza-face. I didn't know either one of these kids well ...
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The 7 Habits of Happy Kids - A new book by Sean Covey

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Sep 23rd 2008 11:00AM

As a self-described cynic, I'm not a huge fan of self-help books. I've no doubt that there are good books out there that can help people, but the sheer volume of these kinds of books on the shelves turn me off. How do people wade through the garbage ...
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Toys and gender - Is it nature, nurture, or both?

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Aug 23rd 2008 3:00PM

Before I was a mom, there were a lot of things I was never going to do as a parent. I was never going to let my kids watch TV, I was only going to feed them homemade, organic food. I was never going to let them play with plastic toys adorned with ...
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Are mama's boys for real?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted May 30th 2008 7:00PM

I don't know about in this country, but in Italy apparently they are. Of all the fears I have for my son, perhaps the one that gets to me the most is that I will turn my son into a mama's boy. Is there anything I want more than to keep my son around ...
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Using modeling effectively

by Heather Craven, Posted Jul 31st 2006 8:01PM

We all know that our babies mimic and copy what we do. In fact, having them imitate our actions is one of the joys of parenthood. A recent study in Developmental Psychology examined how a model's demonstration and the communication cues interact with ...
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Indigo children in the New York Times

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jan 12th 2006 7:07PM

Children who are bright, disruptive, impatient, resistant to authority, energetic and intuitive have a new label. Attention Deficit, you know, is so 90s. The new millennium requires a new label, and it is Indigo. We've talked about indigo children ...
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It's official: parents are more depressed than non-parents

by Karen Walrond, Posted Jan 7th 2006 1:04PM

Good news for those who've decided not to have kids:  The Washington Post is reporting the results of a study indicating that parents are more miserable than non-parents.  The findings, published in last month's Journal of Health and Social ...
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