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Protect Your Child From Cyberbullying

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Cyberbullying—or online bullying on social network sites—is on the rise. Children are most vulnerable to this type of bullying, and the results can be tragic. Too often, we hear about another child or teen who has committed suicide as…
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Open Letter to the Class of 2025

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Editor’s note: this is our contribution to an initiative of NEA, who is asking friends of education from across the country to write open letters to the Class of 2025, this year’s incoming kindergarteners. These letters should convey…
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Gay Parents

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Recent statistics show that roughly 25 percent of gay and lesbian couples in the U.S. are raising children as a family. So, that means that there’s a good chance that your kids may have one or more classmates with gay parents and they…
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How To Enjoy Your Nieces and Nephews When You Aren’t A Parent!

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When you don’t have or want kids of your own, it is hard to imagine that you’d enjoy having children around—or know what to do with them for entertainment. Perhaps you get a vague idea of the responsibility of parenthood by watching…
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How A Mother Explains September 11 To Her Young Daughter

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The new North Tower is finally high enough to partially restore the skyline I used to see when I stepped outside my home in Greenwich Village. It was a glorious sight before September 11, 2001. Two shiny towers created a reference point…
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Teaching Your Kids to Appreciate What They Have

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UPDATED: August 1st, 2016 Houston businesswoman Anna Sykes says she felt neglected as a child. Now a mother herself, Sykes has gone out of her way to give her daughter Nia, 9, everything she never had. To her surprise, this approach has…
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Parent-Teacher Collaboration for Your Child's Success

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As an elementary school teacher, at the beginning of each school year, I’m always hopeful that parents will take an interest in their child’s schooling. I hope they’ll come to Orientation Day and introduce themselves to me, or send…
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Why You Shouldn’t Force Your Picky Eater to Eat

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I understand picky eaters. I am one of them. I wasn’t raised to be a picky eater; I was just born that way. Growing up, my whims were almost never indulged. My mother was very severe, and everything had a very strict schedule, including…
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What is the Best Age for Kids to Enter Kindergarten

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The school year is upon us, and many moms are asking an increasingly popular and perplexing question: Five or six? No, we’re not talking about what time mami gets off of work. We’re talking about which age is best for starting a child…