Parenting
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Gerber engineers chunkier baby food to stave off picky eatingMay 03, 2015 7:36 am - NEW YORK -- Gerber Products, the 87-year-old baby food maker, spent $100 million developing a new product line to help prevent crawling-age kids from becoming picky eate...
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Emerging brain science unlocks the secrets to the puzzling teenagerMay 02, 2015 7:00 am - Teenagers always have been a mystery, drawing perplexing parental questions: What was he thinking when he drove down a one-way street the wrong way, just for kicks? Why ...
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Apps for when it's time for kids to tell timeApr 24, 2015 6:00 am - Telling time is a part of everyday life, but introducing and teaching this important skill to your child can be difficult. Below are three fun and engaging iPad apps tha...
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Paving the way for those pearly whitesApr 23, 2015 6:00 am - What happens when it's time for your child to head to the dentist and the sights and sounds overwhelm them before entering the office? Are there ways to calm, soothe, an...
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Edible Explorations: Corn starch science experiment gives way to chocolate pieApr 23, 2015 6:00 am - Henry's addicted to YouTube. And I'm not sure it's entirely a bad thing. Sure he watches some inane stuff - like parody music videos (I admit some are pretty darn clever...
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Lake County mom helps others celebrate joy of parentingApr 23, 2015 1:00 am - When book reports go undone, gym shoes get strewed across just-mopped floors and cereal fights ensue between siblings, it's easy to forget about the everyday joys of par...
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Special Olympics athlete headed to World GamesApr 21, 2015 11:00 pm - Participation in sports can motivate, inspire and teach. For one young man it has been all that and more. Now it is opening a door to a dream he didn't even know he had....
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Medinah mom copes with son's heroin death by saving othersApr 20, 2015 1:00 am - Editor's note: Heroin has taken hold in the suburbs, and turning a blind eye to it isn't acceptable anymore. In an occasional series, the Daily Herald examines the h...
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Google's YouTube Kids Ads are deceptive, consumer groups sayApr 10, 2015 7:10 am - Google Inc.'s YouTube Kids app violates safeguards for children by deceptively blending advertising and programming, according to consumer groups that are asking U.S. re...
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Budget-friendly fun: Laura Ingalls Wilder Day, Touch-a-Tractor and moreApr 06, 2015 11:00 pm - Laura's life Take a closer look at the pioneer life of "Little House on the Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) during Laura Ingalls Wilder Day at Blac...