Our daughter was adopted and that is something that we are happy to share about with people. However one of the things we are usually struck by when talking about it is that the language used by some...
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© lavendercupcaker What happened to all the old Ice Cream Shoppes? The ones where you actually sat down and were waited on? They'd have a whole menu of wonderful ice cream sundaes and other...
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I'm having to loosen the reins now and it isn't as tough as I thought it would be. My daughter is growing up and I've got to let her have more opportunities, slowly but surely. Last night...
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With summer in full swing, taking a few minutes to go over bee safety issues is a good idea. A number of people are allergic to bee stings with the range of a bad reaction all the way to death.......
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop...
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Summer has rolled around and even if your kids are in camp, there is still a lot of time to be filled. Having silly family fun with your kids helps make lasting memories for them. The activity...
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Saturday was my 20th high school reunion. In fact it was exactly 20 years ago this week I graduated high school from the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. My big goal at the time was getting down...
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Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High - TIME I'm astonished to read above linked story about a group of seventeen high school girls that decided to get pregnant together at a high school in...
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High School Musical 3 started shooting on May 3rd of this year and with a scheduled 40 days of filming, sometime this week or next the work should come to an end. Now editing and about 90 days...
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You don't see the old 'Mom's Taxi' joke as much as you did when I was a kid. The parent act to lampoon - the sports pack Mule. The bags that parents carry about with newborns with the...
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We got an interesting email that might appeal to some of you: My name is leah Gritton and I work at an advertising agency in Los Angeles. Bugaboo is one of our clients. I was wondering if you could...
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I can't wait for summertime, even if it is a shorter summer with our daughter being in year-round school. It has been a pretty good year at school but there has been some conflict. My child...
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Bear with me and read this... the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) defines the PG13 rating for a movie as the following: PG-13 rating is a sterner warning by the Rating Board to parents...
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Summer has arrived here where we live and the temperatures have been hovering around the 100 degree mark the past few days. We are going to get a small reprieve and just low 90s for a few days -...
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The newest celebrity mom and dad are Jessica Alba and Cash Warren, respectively. The "Love Guru" co-star and her new husband, Cash Warren, are new parents, her publicist Brad Cafarelli said...
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I hope to highlight some of the exceptional parenting blogs out there. Have you ever read Dream Mom's blog? While she'd never ask for sympathy or pity, she is an amazing woman who is a single...
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I'm not on their payroll but I love Off Skintastic. If your family is anything like ours, the bugs drive you nuts when you are outside at certain times. Half the time my daughter doesn't even...
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Today is a rough day for my daughter. She's dealing with several disappointments and while my heart goes out to her, she unfortunately is responsible for the problems. It's a rough lesson of...
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One of my favorite websites for inexpensive summer fun is orientaltrading.com. They sell all sorts of fun craft kits, ones for small and big kids (ok and adults who like to sneak in on the action...
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© Peter Gene When I was applying to colleges in 1987 and 1988, it was sort of a scattered process. My parents helped some but my grandmother was in a coma from Thanksgiving until New Years Eve when...
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© IamSAM. Cellphones are everywhere aren't they? I knew when Disney got in the market for cell phones, the trickle down to kids would be fast and furious. My daughter can use my phone as well as...
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