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All Hail the Nap!
A daily nap for young children, let alone adults, is not a culturally sacred institution in American culture. Americans applaud hard work and overtime, but hesitantly apologize if the need for rest...
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Entertainer-in-Chief: Confronting Boredom and a Culture Obsessed with Nurture
Living in the Information Age, we have access to more knowledge at the touch of our fingertips than past generations of parents. Free, high-quality information on child development and parenting...
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Princess Syndrome: 5 Ways to Rescue Your Daughter from the Kingdom of “Me”
If you have found yourself steadily transforming into your child’s minion and are subject to her whims, drama and crazed impulses, you are not alone. Many parents, upon observing their formerly sweet...
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Intelligent v. Pernicious Praise
During a grab-the-camera moment you exclaim to your child, “Good job!”. Your child beams and you respond with a bear-sized hug. Is there any good or harm done in this exchange? If you read the...
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Birth Order: Does it Really Matter?
The phrase “middle child” in American culture can, at times, sound like a dirty word. Before you dismiss me completely, consider if you have heard this comment when a child is acting overly dramatic,...
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Preschool & Kindergarten Shopper Beware
My kindergartner hates school and it doesn’t surprise me. I have eaten lunch in his cafeteria, spent time in his classroom, attended his field trip and reviewed his daily school schedule. Sadly, I...
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5 Essential Traits of a Great School
Beautiful classrooms, extensive and well kept grounds and shinning buttons on crisp uniforms are all undoubtedly alluring to parents when touring schools, but what really makes a school great? Last...
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Is Private School Worth the Price?
The opportunity to be afforded a free education is a gift. Luckily for Americans, society, on the tax payers dime, is willing to care for, nurture and teach your children for seven hours a day at no...
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Why I Throw My Kindergartner’s Homework Away…
Everyday when my five year old son comes home off the bus after being gone at school from 9am until 4pm, I open his backpack and throw his homework away. At times he protests telling me, “Mom! My...
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Futuristic Thinking for Tots
Parents may beam, but to a contemporary scientist a preschooler’s ability to recite his or her ABCs and 123s is a bit unremarkable. Nostalgic, rote memorization tasks like ABCs and 123s were once used...
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“It’s Not You, It’s Me.”
Whether by way of blessing or curse, life is full of stress. It is an unavoidable force, lulling us into a frenzied-haze of delirium, caffeine-binges and expecting the worse, but hoping for the best....
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Top Three Parenting Practices Worth Your Time & Money
When I was only eight weeks pregnant, living in Manhattan, my obstetrician congratulated me on my pregnancy and then took a deep breath before giving me my first bit of parenting advice- preschool...
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