Parenting

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Setting the Obamas' Parental Controls

Stephen Balkam | Posted 12.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Family Online Safety Institute, Administration, Obama, Congress, FOSI Conference, Fosi, Barack Obama, Stephen Balkam, Parenting, Media News

It would send a strong signal if the president established the post of Chief Online Safety Officer, directly responsible to the CTO, to help unify his administration's efforts.

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Principled Choices

Kirsten Moore | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Pregnancy, Respect, Parenting, Choice, Healthy Sexuality, Barack Obama, Health, Politics News

I know President Obama isn't looking forward to starting in-depth public conversations on contentious cultural issues, but when the subject comes up, we have a leader who can help us move forward.

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SNL Star Amy Poehler on Her New Online Show "Smart Girls"

Marianne Schnall | Posted 12.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Girls, Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live, Feminism, Parenting, Teenagers, Women and Media, Entertainment News

AP: The idea came out of us wishing we could go back in time to the younger versions of ourselves and let them know it was gonna be ok. My goal is to be the Edward R. Murrow of girls.

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Nothing Says Home for the Holidays Like Take-Out

Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted 11.26.2008 | Style

Read More: Home Cooking, Holiday Foods, Cooking, Traditional Holiday Foods, Baking, Take Out, Food TV Network, Food, Chinese Takeout, Parenting, Baked Goods, Style News

Home-cooking may be on its way to becoming an oxymoron. It may only be Baby Boomers like me who still feel a smidge of guilt at not doing it all ourselves.

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Male Conspiracy in the Bedroom

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Division of Labor, Women, Family Relationships, Bedroom, Sexual Inequality, Men, Parenting, Sleeping, Families, Parenting Advice, Feng Shui, Living News

As my friends and I considered the implications of what we had uncovered, paranoia set in. What other areas of life were affected? Men always want to drive," declared a friend.

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Sweet Surprise

Christiana Wyly | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Children's Health Foundation, Children, Corn, Sweetener, Green Living, Parenting, Childhood Nutrition, Subsidies, Sugar, Childhood Obesity, Nutrition, Tv, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Children's Health, Soil, Video, Chf, Living News

What are we starving for? We are addicted to corn like we are addicted to sugar like we are addicted to oil. It's the cheap oil that enables the production of the cheap corn in the first place.

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My Most Over-the-Top Moment as a Mother

Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Fencing, Mother, Hover Geneartion, Mothering, Hover Mother, Ivy League, High School, Parenting, Help Applying to College, College Admissions, Living News

When my daughter's fencing coach moved to Seattle, I was beside myself. How, I worried, could she explain on her college applications why she stopped fencing senior year?

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The Parenting Path: Travel with Care

Kay Goldstein | Posted 11.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Relationships, Meditation, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, Parenting, The Four Fold Way, Helicopter Parents, Parent’s Prayer. Attachment, Angeles Arrien, Parenting Support, Living News

In a recent meditation class, a parent brought up how he was undergoing a great deal of external stress, finding it hard to support the busy and challenging level of activities of his teenager.

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Teaching Gratitude

Heather Cabot | Posted 11.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Heather Cabot, Gratitue, Parenting, Giving, Holiday Season, The Well Mom, Living News

Teaching gratitude is a big priority in my book and I do believe it's got to be an ongoing effort. Here are four fun and easy ways to keep the giving going beyond the upcoming holidays.

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6 Things Your Teen Needs to Know About Sex

health.com | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Teens and Sex, Parenting, Sex Education, Sex Talk, Sex, Living News

As awkward as it may be, educating your daughter about sex can keep her healthy--and even save her life. Unfortunately, most teens have different view...

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Why Girls With Asperger's Syndrome Don't Get Diagnosed

Newsweek | Jeneen Interlandi | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Aspergers Syndrome, Aspergers Girls, Parenting, Aspergers, Living News

Liane Willey watched from behind a two-way mirror as doctors at the University of Kansas performed a series of psychological tests on her 5-year-old d...

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18,000 in California Kicked to the Curb

Sara Whitman | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Issues, Kids, LGBT Rights, Parenting, Marriage Equality, CA Prop 8, LGBT Families, Safety for Families, Civil Rights, Proposition 8, Gay Marriage, Politics News

In California, 18,000 couples have no idea what they are. Some have kids, some don't.

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Ten Tips For Parenting The Facebook Generation

beliefnet.com | Hesham Hassaballa | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Children Internet, Online Dangers, Parenting, Internet Rules, Facebook, Living News

Technology continues to speedily change, improve, and advance. Computers get smaller and faster, texting replaces phone conversations, and social netw...

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11 Injury-Prone High School Sports

abcnews.go.com | Posted 11.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Sports, Parenting, High School Sports, Personal Health, Injuries, Living News

With the school year well under way, and Thanksgiving on the horizon, many fall athletes are winding down their seasons while winter athletes prepare ...

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Mystic Mom Revisited

Susan Smalley | Posted 11.13.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Parenting, Mystic Mom, Living News

A few years ago I wrote about what it means to be a mystic mom. As my children are now in college and beyond, I'm struck by how this mother-child relationship carries over throughout my life and theirs.

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Through Their Eyes

Heather Cabot | Posted 11.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Heather Cabot, Parenting, The Well Mom, Happiness, Living News

It's no biggie when a Mom yells out, "Wow! Look at that!" as she narrates the action on the street for her young children. But it feels a little sheepish when you catch yourself blurting, "Awesome!" to no one in particular when a noisy garbage truck crosses your way.

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Fat Kids Have The Arteries Of 45-Year-Olds, Study Shows

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Childhood Obesity, Obesity, Fat Kids, Heart Disease, Parenting, Living News

NEW ORLEANS — Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of hear...

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Hearing Ann Dunham

Ann Medlock | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Parenting, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Single Mothers, HuffPost Election Reaction, Ann Dunham, Election Reaction, Living News

Me, I'm looking for the first time at a President young enough to be one of my kids. Ann Dunham's son, Toot Dunham's grandson, is in fact younger than two of my sons.

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A Grandmother's Love

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Election 2008 Coverage, Obama Family, Obama Inspiration, Parenting, Inspiration, Parenting Magazine, Family Values, Grandparenting, Obama Grandmother Dies, Obama Grandmother, Grandparents, Living News

The strange timing of Obama's grandmother's death underlines what a grandmother's love is really meant to do; which is to prepare a child for a world that she may never lay eyes on.

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6 Steps For Raising A Charitable Child

Razoo.com | Lora Shinn | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Parenting, Volunteering, Charity, The Giving Life, Living News

Most kids love toys, video games, and Hannah Montana--and while they might know every Miley Cyrus song by heart, they wouldn't have a clue what the te...

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Barack Obama and My Kids

Julie Menin | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Without first acquiring a track record of reaching across the aisle, one of the greatest opportunities to create a modern "New Deal" to help Americans across the country will be lost.

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Community Organizer of the World

Joan Garry | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Obama stands today as the president-elect of the United States because of his credential as a community organizer. What a delicious irony.

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Preschoolers At The Polls

Heather Cabot | Posted 11.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Parenting, The Well Mom, Voting, Living News

Election Day got off to a rousing start over breakfast when my nearly three-year-old son stubbornly announced that he would not be going with me to "boat" because he did not want his feet to get wet.

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Third Screen: An Interview with Lisa Belkin of The New York Times

Vickie Karp | Posted 11.04.2008 | Living

Read More: New Age Parenting, Parents Texting, 21st Century Parenting, Parenting Styles, Financial Crisis, Virtual Parenting, Parenting, Parent Teen Relationship, Digital Parenting, Children in College, Living News

I don't have kids. Let's call it "Roomy Nest Syndrome." But that doesn't stop me from reading Lisa Belkin whenever I can.

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What To Do With An Overachiever

Christine Hassler | Posted 11.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Twenty-Something Advice, Parenting, The Balanced Life, College, Gen Y, Overachievers, Living News

Dear Christine, My son, a college student, has been on the honor roll his entire life. Getting a B on a quiz or a paper totally freaks him out. Whil...

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