7/19/2012 11:11 AM
Police in Philadelphia are questioning a suspect in the attempted abduction of a 10-year-old girl, whose escape from the kidnapper was captured by nearby surveillance ...
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7/18/2012 5:15 PM
One of the joys of life is taking people you love to places you love.
I had that joy last weekend when I took my granddaughter Holly to see the Sandia Mountains ...
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7/18/2012 9:00 AM
Every so often a story comes along about a pregnant woman being outraged at the reaction of her drinking wine or alcohol.
The latest comes from a
babycenter.com ...
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7/17/2012 1:06 PM
I love reading mysteries, and the news of Donald Sobol's recent death -- read an obituary here -- had me thinking about my favorite childhood detectives.
Sobol's ...
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7/16/2012 7:05 AM
Baby questions of the week:
How can you gradually introduce pets to children?
How soon should children handle some pet responsibilities?
What precautions ...
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7/13/2012 8:05 AM
If you jump head-first off the bed, you will hit your head on the floor. And if you hit your head on the floor, it will hurt.
The immutable law of cause and effect ...
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7/12/2012 12:15 PM
What were my four pre-marriage theories about raising children? I have no idea now and I didn’t have a clue then, either.
One of my favorite parenting quotations ...
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7/11/2012 3:54 PM
I never met my maternal grandfather, but later in life I learned we had a lot in common. He was a newspaperman who ran his own newspaper in several Missouri small towns, ...
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7/11/2012 9:00 AM
My husband swore our daughter would not have her ears pierced until she was 16 years old.
I was thinking more like 6 or 7, which was when I went through this rite ...
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7/11/2012 6:00 AM
In the remote jungles of Peru, a 6-year-old girl goes on a leaf-gathering expedition with her tribe, which expects her to work hard like everybody else.
She sweeps ...
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7/10/2012 8:00 AM
How big is the tooth fairy in your house? She's a pretty big deal for my girls.
Any loose tooth is continually wiggled and waggled, and progress is measured in how ...
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7/9/2012 3:05 PM
Researchers have once again crunched the numbers and analyzed all the data, coming to the scientific conclusion that -- brace yourself -- parents should pay attention ...
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