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Tips for College Moving Day

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Tips to make the best of college moving day for freshmen and their parents by a mom who's been there, twice.  Graduation and prom are over, Beach Week is just a Facebook memory and soon—too soon for many of us—you’ll load up your…
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5 Tips to Help Make Your Child Bilingual

[Mamiverse's Bilingual Plus is an online channel devoted to bringing parents and educators the bilingual learning tools they need in the form of digital picture books, sing-alongs, and free curriculum-based family activities.] In our fast-paced…
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How to Help Your Kid Make the Team

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As the school year starts up, many parents’ stomachs begin to churn nervously. Fall sports tryouts are underway, and child athletes, or would-be athletes, are stressed. Chances are, parents are feeling just as anxious for tryouts as there…
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10 Money-Saving Back to School Tips

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Back to school season can get really expensive, especially if you’ve got more than one kid to outfit for the coming year. Online shopping site PriceGrabber®, in addition to offering a back-to-school shopping guide, suggests 10 money-saving…
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Eating Milestones: When Your Baby Starts to Feed Herself

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If you’re a new mom, you’ve probably gotten a slew of baby gifts that it seems like you’ll never need. I remember when friends visited me in the hospital while I was recovering from my C-section, and gifted me a baby cup, plate, spoon,…
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10 Great Back To School Tips

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And just like that, even before the temperatures go down or the leaves fall from the trees, summer vacation is over! In Florida, kids are back in the classroom August 19, while most of the rest of the country returns to school after Labor…
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The Real Cost of Your Child's College Education

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If you have children and you hope they will one day go to college, then you are probably already worrying about how you will pay for it. College is expensive—very expensive. According to a new Urban Institute report, adults in their 30s…
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Terrible Twos: Raising Twin Tweens!

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Whenever a friend or family welcomes a new baby- somewhere along the way my husband and I get asked- ‘HOW did you do it with two?’ The ‘toughness’ with twins almost always is associated with the infant and toddler years (and perhaps…
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Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till, & Men with Guns

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What happens when a man gets a gun in his hand? Does it conjure up a lust for violence, for death, even? Even a toy gun for a child’s game of ‘Cops and Robbers’ signifies power, a chance to shoot the bad guy on the playground. But is…