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Do you know your child’s love language?
Several years ago at church my pastor’s wife related a story to a married couples group about a st.... |
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How to Use Twitter to Protect Family and Your Neighborhood
We live in a very quiet, historic neighborhood in South Florida but in the past year, a neighbor’s.... |
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Easy Ways to Get Healthy in the New Year
The facts are staggering: according to the American Dietetic Association, people who consume anima.... |
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The Story that Saved Santa
My 10-year-old son was about 3 when I first decided I would kick Santa out of Christmas by tellin.... |
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Parenting Tip: Strategize
Holiday Toy-Buying
In the blue-collar Latino family that I grew up in, everything was sacrificed to give the kids th.... |
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Christmas Shopping Guide
Few things cause us more stress annually than having to select which gifts to buy our spouses and.... |
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Clean Teeth Blues
If you’re like most parents with babies or toddlers, you’re having a tough time brushing their te.... |
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Raising Kids to be
Entrepreneurs, Part 1
The great recession we are still slogging through has taught me something critical: you can’t rel.... |
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Why Our Baby’s Back to Sleeping With Us
A couple of months ago I wrote that I was having a tough time getting my 2 year-old Briani to sle.... |
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Flu Season Parenting Tricks, Part 2
Strong hygiene habits should be practiced year round. I want to share some of the tricks I’ve use.... |
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Flu Season Parenting Tricks, Part 1
If you observe people as much as I do, you know that I’m not exaggerating when I say that most pe.... |
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American Girl’s Josefina Doll Makes a Great Cultural Gift
I don’t like dolls and I typically don’t do doll reviews but when American Girl approached me dur.... |
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Tricks of the Trade for Smart Parenting
Air travel trick
Our family either lives too far from us or is too busy to take care of our kids.... |
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Balancing the Scales:
The Case for Fair Trade Fashion
Fair fashion, fair trade
According to the Department of Labor, over half of the garment factori.... |
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Handle Your Children’s Lies with an Iron Fist
We were sitting at a restaurant the other day when my 10-year-old son Jonathan excused himself to.... |
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