Below are fifteen of our favorite quotes about fatherhood from The Quotable Dad and Wisdom for Dad: 1. “A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.” Anonymous 2. “I cannot understand how I managed to cope without getting cuddled this many times a day.” Russell Crowe, New-Zealand born actor and […]
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Finally, the last bell rings and off you go to music lessons, team practice, some other extracurricular activity, or a part-time job. When you finally get home, you still have a pile of homework to do, sometimes until late at night; then, you eventually conk out. A few hours later, you roll out of bed
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Once you’ve got your kids hooked on cooking, and they’ve grown a few years older, they’ll be chefs for life. To help you get your kids on track to a life free of TV dinners and packaged ramen noodles, we’ve put together a list of kid-friendly recipes that they’ll love making as much as they’ll
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This is the time of year when even ordinarily guileless children become fiendishly cleverand cleverly fiendishabout hunting for hidden packages whose contents they’d love to ascertain. Yes, I’m talking about The Great Hidden Christmas Present Hunt, an annual ritual in all homes where the kids know they’ll get presents from
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Yesterday, my son asked me to color with him. I told him I would, but I felt busy and tried to put it off at first. Finally, I sat down with him and asked him to choose me a page to color. He chose me a very nice page, where the smartest of the
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I glanced out of the driver’s side window of my car, toward the bus stop, just in time to see 230 lbs. of frustration and insecurity, packed in a flowery muu-muu, wielding what looked to be a King James Bible like it was a set of nunchucks. On the receiving end of this doxology is
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Anyone out there remember when the Disney label meant family entertainment? Any movie stamped with the Disney logo which is patterned after Walt Disney’s own cursive signature meant that parents needn’t worry about content, there would be nothing of a questionable nature in the film. Disney movies, both animated and live-action, beginning with
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Janna Vought is the author of the upcoming Evolution of Cocoons: A Mother’s Journey into Mental Illness and Autism, her memoir about raising her daughter who suffers from Bipolar I and Asperger’s Syndrome. Evolution of Cocoons will release Fall 2013. I built her from dust, a thousand wishes crushed, darkness crumbling light’s edges. I stood still silent watched her burn alive in
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You have a lot going on. Lots of homework, your friends are texting you, your parents are on your case, you have to go to practice (piano, football, ballet, you name it), your Facebook page is out of date, you wish you could go on a date, you don’t have enough friends, your SAT scores are too
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The family that runs together has fun together! Here are 7 fun family-friendly runs for the fall season. 1. The Oasis Zoo Run Location: Toronto, CA Date: September 20, 2014 The Oasis Zoo Run is a charity walk and run that raises money for the Toronto Zoo’s conservation programs. A popular race in the
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