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New Parenting Weblog: Parent Hacks
Parent Hacks describes a hack as a workaround, a jerry-rig, a clever, pragmatic answer to a problem. Parents are some of the best hackers, because raising kids requires on-your-feet thinking and frequent improvisation. Parent…
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Google Salutes Louis Braille
Google has fun breaking up the monotony of their website by often tweaking their logo for a holiday or other special day. Today, they decided to honor Louis Braille, the inventor of the braille…
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Fried Donuts Is A Great Way To Start The New Year!
Since New Year’s Day is notorious for resolutions — particularly resolutions to eat better and lose weight — I thought it would fun to promote the opposite. Instead, you may want to start off…
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Obesity Before Pregnancy Linked To Childhood Weight Problems – Pregnancy And Baby
Results of the study, which included more than 3,000 children, suggest that a child is far more likely to be overweight at a very young age — at 2 or 3 years old —…
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Kill-A-WATT – Monitor Your Energy Output
Connect your appliances into the Kill A Watt™, and assess how efficient they are. A large LCD display counts consumption by the Kilowatt-hour just like utility companies. You can figure out your electrical expenses…
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Do Video Games Cause Violent Behavior?
According to Wired News, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman seems to think so, and is preaching that message to law enforcement officers and the FBI. Grossman, who claims to be one of the “world’s foremost…
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Resources For Low Income Families
Tight finances is a common problem for many single parents. It’s hard enough to keep on top of financial obligations, so having any kind of emergency cushion is oftentimes out of the question. Many…
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Will The Flock Browser Revolutionize Online Communication?
I got my hands on a new Mozilla-based browser called Flock tonight. The Flock browser aims to convert the traditional web browser into a communication and community tool. Adding special functionality to browsers is…
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Being A Father Can Sometimes Be Stupefying
Whenever I’ve been in a crisis, I’ve always had the uncanny ability to remain in control, and to do whatever needs to be done. However, I’ve found one crisis that renders me totally ineffective…
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Pediatricians Offer New Recommendations To Prevent SIDS
USA Today reports on new pediatrician recommendations for preventing SIDS To best protect babies from sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, they should be offered pacifiers and should not sleep on their sides, pediatricians…