"Classical Kids," classical music-and-story CD series from The Children's Group
These have been highly recommended to me.
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The Columbus Dispatch : Where's Dad?
As of 2006, the proportion of babies born to women 30 and under who are born out of wedlock rose to just over half.
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Christopher Noxon, "Is my kid a dick, or is he just 2?," Salon (Sept. 8, 2008)
"My son bullies me, insults his mother and once punched an old man in the nuts. I know it's probably just a phase. But what if it isn't?"
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TotSpot - A place for kids
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Transgendered Oregon man is pregnant (he says)
Thomas Beatie, who has undergone sex-change surgery and is legally male and legally married, has conceived a child via a home insemination from a sperm donor. He plans to carry the child to term. Others, however, are skeptical of his claims.
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Suburban kids are more messed up than inner-city ones (2005)
A 2005 study showed that the average suburban, well-off white teenager is more likely to engage in substance abuse or suffer from depression than kids living in poverty or in the inner city.
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"Alison": a father's portrait of his daughter
Three decades' worth of Jack Radcliffe's photographs of his daughter Alison. Extremely moving and beautiful images.
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Renaissance Academy - Edison Charter School
Website for the Renaissance Academy, a local K-12 charter school run by Edison Schools.
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Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse"
Larkin's bitter (not to say vicious) classic short poem.
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Internet pranking leads to teenager's suicide [7]
An alarming story. A troubled teenage girl befriends a boy on MySpace. Eventually he dumps her. She commits suicide. The parents then find out that the boy was a fictitious creation of an ex-friend of their daughter's with help from a parent.
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Internet pranking leads to teenager's suicide
An alarming story. A troubled teenage girl befriends a boy on MySpace. Eventually he dumps her. She commits suicide. The parents then find out that the boy was a fictitious creation of an ex-friend of their daughter's with help from a parent.
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Diaper organizer pouches for $20
Handy idea. But there must be a cheaper solution than spending $20 on a bunch of cotton bags. ($5 cheaper at Drugstore.com - http://snipr.com/1t4sg)
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Mini-diaper-changing kit for $30
Another miniature version of a diaper bag: a folding changing pad holds a couple of diapers, plus pouches for wipes and creams, and that's it. Looks handy, and the price is right.
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Mini-diaper-changing kit for $50
A miniature version of a diaper bag, including changing pad and various compartments and pockets. I hate huge, unwieldy diaper bags, especially when I'm on foot.
Now I guess I'll have to clip something about football or guitars to prove my masculini
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A Guide to the Family Dinner
Recommends MariaLisa Calta's book, "Barbarians At the Plate: Taming and Feeding the Modern American Family," on ways to make family dinners happen more easily.
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For teens, family dinners are best predictor of success
The best predictor of a teenager's positive and negative social and academic outcomes -- doing well in school, using drugs and alcohol, experimenting with sex at a young age, fighting -- is how frequently he or she eats dinner with his family. This is mor
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Video diary: Talia crawls, Zeke lectures on crabs
It's been a while since I did one of these. The big news: Zeke had his first experience in a real sw
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Bisphenol A: health risks of consumer plastics
Salon's overview of what we know about bisphenol A (BPA), a component of many consumer plastic products (most notably including most baby bottles). It may well pose serious health risks, especially to children and pregnant women, but exactly how bad is un
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Polycarbonate-free baby bottles: protect your child
Every parent of a bottle-feeding baby should know about the potential dangers of bisphenol-A, used in the manufacture of polycarbonate baby bottles (such Avent, which I've been using, [i]until today[/i]). This post runs down which brands are safe.
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