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.
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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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2/5/2013 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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1/28/2013 5:23 PM
When browsing for something to read at bedtime, parents should always look for a shiny silver sticker on the cover that identifies a book as a Newbery or Caldecott winner.
They've ...
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1/25/2013 3:35 PM
If your kid’s diet has enough “long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids” in it, he’ll grow up smart enough to know what that means.
Apparently, it’s fish oil.
Researchers ...
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1/23/2013 1:25 PM
If their parents stay married, kids are twice as likely to go to church regularly when they grow up, according to a report Wednesday from the Institute for American Values.
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1/16/2013 1:05 PM
Four years ago in Mariemont, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, officials transferred Maria Waltherr-Willard from the high school to a junior high, where she taught Spanish.
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1/10/2013 11:00 AM
Using the old “if they’re old enough to vote and go to war” argument, a Colorado state senator wants to let parents buy drinks for their over-18 children.
They would ...
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1/9/2013 9:43 AM
The Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia is taking a lot of flak for telling an 11-year-old girl that she can’t play football anymore.
But it’s not a religious issue. ...
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1/7/2013 3:58 PM
Worried that his son was wasting too much time with video games, a father allegedly paid other gamers to hunt him down and kill him – over and over again, if necessary. ...
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