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Chris Dorman & Friends - Live Streaming Father's Day Performance

Tune in for an incredible, free streaming performance of the new album "Always There" from Chris Dorman and Friends this Father's Day!

Modern Career Advice for Kids

School is too focused on “education leads to a job.” This is not true anymore. The reality is the average person has 14 different careers in their lives and the average multi-millionaire has seven ...

An instagram famous travel photographer on how to take epic photos

If you've ever spent a few minutes on instagram, you know that not all phone photographers are created equal. Though considering the level playing field when it comes to hardware and software, the ...

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The Overly-Critical Kids Book Review: The Mitten by Jan Brett

The Mitten: a tale about a sniveling bully who torments his own grandmother, with an improbable side plot about animals peacefully coexisting inside the apparel after which the story is titled.

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How I Found Clarity By Looking Through My Son’s Filter

My son turned and looked in my eyes as he ascended the plastic grey climbing wall. Clambering to escape me as I advanced on him, his fingers slipped off of each hold and his attempts to elude me we...

Fourth graders dig up history in their classroom closet

At the Children's Workshop School in New York City's East Village, a fourth grade classroom's closet has been turned into an archeological dig site. Inspired by a book his class had read about a mi...

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Top 5 links for parents 5/22-5/29

Busy cramming in end of year concerts and sporting events? Ready to light backpacks on fire if you have to fill out one more school trip or summer camp form? Here's the hot list of interesting thin...

6 clever instagram accounts you should be following

Perfectly filtered selfies and forgettable shots of lattes and lunches are the currency of instagram. But every once in awhile, you stumble across someone who's truly worth following. If your feed ...

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5 links to share with your curious kids (week of 5/29/15)

5 fun, educational links to share with your curious kids curated by Today Box for Parent Co.

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Relationship Advice for Parents: How can we reconnect after a fight?

Question of the week: "My husband and I have a tough time reconnecting after a fight. How can we just be cool with each other?"

Read "Don't Call Me 'Mama'"

Over on The Awl, Laura June writes: Our culture has an extreme love-hate relationship with parents and their children. We deify the cult of motherhood, proclaiming that there’s nothing more inspiri...

Childbirth is finally getting the cultural treatment it deserves

Riveting stories of the human condition have found their way to page and screen for as long as they've all existed. But the vast majority of epic tales have passed over honestly depicting the most ...

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Ode to "The Village"

A shout-out to the good friends close-by who weave into the life of our family. That is, our village.

What's better than a classroom? The woods.

Eliza Minnucci, a kindergarten teacher at the Ottauquechee School in central Vermont, turns the woods next to the elementary school into her classroom every Monday. Rain or shine, for the entire sc...

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Books With No Pictures: Using novels to spark your child’s imagination

Reading novels to your kids teaches them to focus on longer texts while capturing their imagination.

Delaying cord clamping may have long term benefits

According to several recent studies, delaying cord clamping at birth may have small long term benefits including higher scores in social skills and fine motor skills at age 4. Delaying the clamping...

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This is everything your family needs for a night at the drive-in movies

From bug spray to the best flashlight, this everything you need to plan a family night at the drive-in.

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As a parent, use natural forces to your advantage

Anyone with kids has probably noticed the 5:00 hour is a portal to the dark side - but this provides a perfect example of using natural forces to your advantage.

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Houzz Tour: A Playful Home Drawn Up by 8-Year-Old Twins

Check out this family’s amazing house. It’s partly based on designs from drawings by the owner’s 8-year-old twin boys. It’s a series of small structures built around a tower. Best of all, it also h...

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The Brain Chase Challenge keeps kids engaged with summer learning

Our interview and overview of Brain Chase, a five-week online treasure hunt / learning competition for kids ages 6-16.

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Being A Parent and a Person. At the Same Time.

People talk of the downfalls of letting one’s job become one’s entire identity, but rarely speak of the job of parenting in the same way.

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"I was part of a study in the form of a day care that involved monkeys."

As a toddler in 1981 and 1982, I attended a day care with monkeys. Or, perhaps more precisely, I was part of a study in the form of a day care that involved monkeys. I was two, then three. I remem...

Laugh of the day-Matt Lauer Waits In Parking Garage For Anonymous Source On Parenting Trends

You can always rely on the Onion to deliver the hard hitting hilarity. (And we could totally see Matt Lauer lurking around a dark corner, smartly dressed in his Balenciaga trench coat waiting for h...

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Top 5 links for parents May 15 to 22

It's so hard to say goodbye, but this montage of David Letterman interviewing kids is a great look back on 33 years of hilarity. If you're gunning for the title of "Most Awesome Parent", you may wa...