2/14/2013 2:14 PM
I never thought much about what my grandkids call me.
Our first grandchildren, twin boys, began to call us Nonny and Papa almost as soon as they could talk, and ...
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2/14/2013 12:21 AM
Bringing back an old campaign promise from 2008, President Obama used this week’s State of the Union to push the idea of making public preschool available to kids nationwide.
For ...
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2/12/2013 4:05 PM
Not sure if my kids are historically aware enough to have a favorite president yet, but I’m making a big plug for Abraham Lincoln. My father-in-law, World War II and ...
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2/12/2013 1:20 PM
Once upon a time, a long time ago, white people hated black people. Then that Luther guy had a dream and made it so they could like each other. If it wasn’t for him ...
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2/12/2013 12:03 PM
Sometimes you find an author and you want to read everything they wrote. My first experience with that was as a young reader of Judy Blume novels.
I probably started ...
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2/11/2013 3:28 PM
Reading the British press before writing Monday's column about our 'sexualized world,' I kept running across the name Steve Biddulph, often quoted as an expert in child ...
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2/8/2013 12:43 PM
There's nothing in the world more boring than an ultrasound. Unless it's your kid in there. Then there's nothing more fascinating.
No word on price, but if this ...
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2/7/2013 1:29 PM
My wife and I re-watched one of our favorite old movies the other night, Moonstruck, about an Italian family in New York City.
In one poignant scene, the wrinkled ...
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2/6/2013 6:20 PM
When the news came that a student had committed suicide at a Coweta school Monday morning, my first thoughts were of my middle-schooler.
Less than six months after ...
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2/5/2013 2:30 PM
It's always hard to know what to make of ratings like this, considering all the complex realities that have to be distilled down to a simple letter grade.
In her ...
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2/4/2013 2:23 PM
I watched the game Sunday with my wife and 4-year-old son. But if it hadn't been the Super Bowl, we would've kept him away from some of the content.
First, CBS seemed ...
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2/4/2013 11:19 AM
I'm afraid that this isn't one of my cute-baby entries, but rather, one of those entries where I'm sharing info that I wish I knew before it happened.
It is sick ...
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