Rita
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Want your kids to love reading? You need to love reading to them.
Evidently reading to your kids is more than just reading to your kids. And seriously pedigreed educational consultant Diane W.…
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Keeping her pants up while getting down
My daughter’s going through a growth spurt, and any jeans without those little adjustable waist button-and-elastic dojobbies tend to sag…
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A female pirate? Ahoy.
We love Oliver Chin, author of the Tales from the Chinese Zodiac Series. In his latest book, Baltazar and the…
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Brains = Cool
With my daughter starting kindergarten, I’ve been thinking a lot about kids thinking lately. And more specifically: how to make…
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Cartoons for the thinking mama
When I was in high school, an artist friend of mine and I wrote a graphic novel during biology class…
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Green: A great color for every baby
There’s so much advice for new moms to wade through, and after being pregnant and told you can’t eat spicy…
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I can bring home the bacon, I can wipe your butt with one hand
My childless co-workers are intrigued by my ability to open almost anything with one hand. I did not possess these…
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Excessively motivated parents, your owners manual has arrived
After researching my proposal for my own parenting book (Ahem, Sleep Is for the Weak, shameless plug, shameless plug) I…
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Just the right shade of … skin
My daughter recently drew a picture of herself and one of her school friends. She made herself pink and her…
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Our favorite dolls get ink
We love Melissa Conroy’s Wooberry dolls. The originals are not only designed from her child’s sketches, they’re also handmade. And…