Parenting
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How to teach your child to swimJun 17, 2015 6:00 am - Swimming is a popular activity once temperatures heat up. Millions of people flock to beaches and water parks to dip their toes in the water, and spend afternoons explor...
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Fertility medicine brings babies — and tough decisionsMay 25, 2015 5:45 am - Brenda Loblein never wanted to be in this position. She didn't want to be faced with a decision about what to do with an extra embryo — a potential child — sitting on ic...
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How to keep the sting out of summerMay 20, 2015 11:00 pm - From itches and scrapes to bites, bruises and burns, the lazy, hazy days of summertime fun can be fraught with unseen and unwanted challenges. Safety experts and two loc...
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Constable: Why Mom is secretly a hero, like this Long Grove cancer survivorMay 10, 2015 7:45 am - Many children don't realize their mother's secret identity until they grow into adults themselves. They have kids of their own, face the struggles of life, try to hold i...
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WWII soldier's gift to mom, lost for 73 years, returns homeMay 09, 2015 1:00 am - MILLVILLE, Mass. - This is the story of a loving tribute from a soldier preparing for war to his mother on the other side of the continent, who didn't know if she would ...
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Emma, Noah top list of most popular baby names in 2014May 08, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Emma is back. After slipping from the top of the most popular baby names six years ago, Emma was back at No. 1 in 2014. Noah was the top baby name for ...
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In defense of plain, unsweetened, unflavored waterMay 06, 2015 6:00 am - My daughter has her first crush. It isn't any of the boys in her nursery school (thankfully, as she just turned 4). Instead, she has a massive fascination with juice. It...
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Your health: 6-month-old babies are using smartphones, study saysMay 05, 2015 5:45 am - Look who's swiping now: Smartphone. Dumb idea. More and more Americans are handing their smartphones to their kids, some as young as 6 months old, according to a ne...
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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 ...