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Parents curbing TV, encouraging kids to read
AZCentral.com - WASHINGTON - Parents are taking a more active role in raising their children than they did a decade ago, setting greater restrictions on TV watching and reading more to youngsters, the government reported Wednesday. Teenagers are participating in …

Pediatrician: New toys for toddlers a disturbing trend
Dayton Daily News - Shifrin said parents must decide for themselves what fits best into their plan for raising children. But what is “tried and tested and true,” he said, is parents interacting with their small children to teach them letters, numbers, colors and phonics …

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! collection entertains children at Society …
Palm Beach Daily News - Meyer said children are not shy about raising their hands and asking questions about all things a little disgusting and very strange. … Richard Harvey, one of the adults in the crowd, came down from Tequesta to pick up a gift for his parents who …

School program helps migrant students and parents
Monterey County Herald - The costs of raising children can be overwhelming for some parents who earn their living in the fields of the Salinas Valley. Necessities such as food, warm clothing or dental visits can be cut from a family’s budget after the monthly rent is paid …

Al Franken Gets Serious For Senate Run
CBS News - … spaghetti lunch, his daughter had to write a school essay about how her parents met … when she was 17 months old, leaving her mother, then 29, to raise five children on … He then set about raising and giving away money for state Democratic candidates …

Tennis star Chris Evert’s name may come off children’s hospital
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - … district President and Chief Executive Alan Levine has encouraged hospital district commissioners to consider a different big-name celebrity ? one who could help ramp up fund raising and provide a higher profile name among parents of children, the …

Ask Our Experts: Is It School Phobia?
Raising Kids - Physical symptoms somtimes have emotional causes in young children. Raisingkids.co.uk’s guest expert Frank McGinty … Often, too, a ?problem? can be something that a child has misconstrued, so parents may not even be aware of …

Ask Our Experts: Talking To Teens About Drugs

Raising Kids - It’s natural for teenagers to go against their parents - discussing your own drug experiences is a … Make sure your children know where to go for information. Talk about legal drugs as well as illegal …

Forbes list the most influential under-5s
Raising Kids - Researchers at the magazine looked at the amount of column inches and commercial value of each child, to come up with a list of the ten children who are most likely to capitalise on their parents’ fame and wealth. The list is as follows: 1. Shiloh …

A Growing Divide Emerges as 2008 Fund-Raising Year Comes to a�Close
Chronicle of Philanthropy - A Growing Divide Emerges as 2008 Fund-Raising Year Comes to a�Close By Holly Hall … receive any donations for its drive to raise $5,000 to buy toys for needy children. … on to provide basic services such as reduced-cost child care to working parents at …

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