Don’t tell your kids you’re on a diet. Save them the burden of knowing you’re counting calories, trying to downsize your size or watching the scale like a hawk. There’s no need to saddle them with your body issues, because surely, you don’t want them growing up obsessing about food and weight, right? What you [...]

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On Fridays, we list the links we love and point to the hot topics at our favorite sites. Jon and Kate are divorcing. What a sad story — and one that’s being covered, like, everywhere. Check out what ParentDish has to say about the big split. Poor kids. Feeling a bit more motivation to keep [...]

Is spanking a thing of the past? Well, if it’s not, then it should be, according to the writer of this article, who says: Unless your child maybe reaches for, say, an electrical outlet you left exposed or some roach poison you left where they could find it and is in danger of killing themselves, [...]

If your kids love the computer, and you love when they’re learning and not zoning into online games galore, I’ve got something that will make everyone happy — Starfall.com. As you can tell from the .com stuff, Starfall is found online (yay for kids), but it’s educational too (yay for Mom and Dad). A teacher [...]

Do you have a pool nearby? Doesn’t need to be your own, maybe just one in your neighborhood, or a pool belonging to a friend would work too. If so, consider booking it one late afternoon for a pool party hosted by your kiddos. That’s what we’re doing. The idea came from my 8-year-old who [...]

We’ve talked chores here before, and President Obama is taking on the topic too. He recently shared that his daughters — Sasha, 8, and Malia, 10 — are no strangers to making their beds, walking and feeding the family dog, taking out the trash and doing homework (well, I’m not sure that’s a chore, but [...]

On Fridays, we list the links we love and point to the hot topics at our favorite sites. Hope you didn’t skip breakfast this morning, because if you did, you might get fat. See what CafeMom has to say about this weighty issue — and think carefully about what you feed your little ones when [...]

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My kids subscribe to Highlights magazine. Well, mom and dad subscribe, and the kids are the lucky recipients who get to fish it out of the mailbox every month. It’s a good publication — short and sweet stories, activity ideas and best of all: Hidden Pictures. You don’t have to sign up for your own [...]