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10 Electronics-Free Ideas to Entertain Your Kid on a Flight

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We know how plane rides go when you bring your kids along on your summer vacation. You settle into your seat with your guilty pleasure magazine, hoping for a quiet, peaceful flight. Before you know it, your children are squirming in their…
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15 Alternative School Styles that Might be Right for Your Kid

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As Common Core and standardized tests continue to permeate our educational system and in-school violence leaves parents afraid to send their kids to traditional, public schools, alternative school and education programs are booming. “Education…
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10 Hidden Super Powers of Your Shy Child

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Is being shy always a negative? Not necessarily. Granted, it’s not good when a child is extremely shy to the point that it inhibits their social growth—but a child who is only shy around strangers can also be viewed as cautious, which is…
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8 Essential Money Lessons Parents Need to Teach Their Kids

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Sadly, many kids’ financial knowledge is limited to the idea that money comes from ATMs and that you just need to swipe a card to buy something. As adults we know it’s a bit more complicated and we struggle to teach our children how to…
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Does Your Kids’ Math Homework Make You Hyperventilate? 15 Ways to Up Your Numbers Game

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Most of us parents haven’t had to do a real math problem in years. It’s tough enough to remember the math skills we learned way back when we were in school but to grasp the newfangled ways they’re teaching math today can be downright…

8 Ways to Manage Your Child’s Insomnia

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Remember that popular book, Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach—read brilliantly by Samuel L. Jackson—that made parents across the world simultaneously laugh and cry? You expect a tiny baby to disturb your sleep; but at some point, you…
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15 Reasons You Should Consider Online Education for Your Kids

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Once upon time we chose schools based on things like proximity, secular versus religious studies, and whether or not we preferred private or public schools for our kids. Well the Internet has changed all that. Back in the day, educating your…
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10 Ways to Get Your Kid Amped About Reading

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There’s no getting around the reality that everything is becoming more hi-tech. When was the last time you picked up a book, anyway? In these computer-driven times, we worry that our kids will be limited to reading text messages and social…
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15 Ways to Help Your Kid Rock it this School Year

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School culture has become increasingly competitive over recent years. Everyone wants to make sure that his or her child comes out on top, and the kids are invested too. We, of course, want our kids to live up to their full potential but we’re…