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5 Gadgets That Will Bring the Family Together

When it comes to family the time you spend together matters most, especially as the oldest members of the family continue to age. Cross-generational bonding is at an all-time low, but it doesn’t have to be. There are some pretty simple ways to bring the extended...

Helping Your Overweight Child, It’s All About Teamwork!

It’s never easy being the fat kid. Overlooked to play sports with or unnoticed by a crush; being overweight is difficult on the body but as a kid the real damage is on their potential social life. It is heartbreaking to see your child become reclusive and not enjoying...

Raising Strong, Compassionate Boys

If you have been blessed with a boy (or two or four) then you have seen the many surprising and heartwarming things that boys are innately capable of. You have also undoubtedly seen the energy, unruliness, defiance, and aggression that have given boys such a bad...

Fuel Imagination with Creative Play

You may have heard it said before: play is the work of childhood. Does that seem like a strange statement to you? It’s true. Play helps develop a child’s imagination, and imagination is critically important in life. First of all, a child with imagination is able to...

Is Your Smartphone Safe for Your Children?

As a parent, you take many precautions to protect your children. You baby-proof the house, you put up safety gates, you give them swimming lessons, and you teach them about stranger danger. You even activate parental locks on your TV and game consoles. But one...