Archive for ◊ March, 2010 ◊

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• Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

MyParenTime.com’s Thoughts:

There are way too many fatalities among adolescents who think this truly is a game. One look at the DB Foundation’s  statistics database proves them wrong.  If you look into this list you’ll find a boy, age 10, who was just ten days away from his 11th birthday when he decided to try the choking “game.” Unfortunately, neither he nor his parents realized how dangerous this “game” was. Another child on the list was 17 and loved computer games. Another child was 13 and loved her dogs. She too fell victim to the choking “game.”

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• Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Movie: The Princess and the Frog; Rated G; Disney Pictures
Released on Home Video: March 16, 2010

Would-be Princess Falls for Freewheeling Frog

When her favorite teacher takes maternity leave, your daughter is skeptical about her replacement. She seems to find fault with everything the new teacher does: the homework she assigns, her teaching style, even the way she dresses! But the day your daughter comes down with the stomach flu – right in the middle of class – the teacher comforts her, cleans up after her and walks her to the nurse’s office.

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• Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Every fall millions of American children and teenagers return to school. And like clockwork, hundreds of articles and news stories expounding the potential dangers of kids backpacks return to virtually every newspaper, television station and news website.
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• Friday, March 19th, 2010

When you build your website, you, of course, want to get high rankings in the search engines. There are lots of ways to do this and lots of ways to NOT do this. Below are 10 things to avoid if you want to be in good standing with the search engines.
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• Thursday, March 18th, 2010

The bonding period for you and your baby begins long before birth. As your baby grows and develops within you, the special relationship between you and your child is already beginning to form. This special relationship, full of intense emotion, a deep sense of connection and a strong attachment is what drives a mother to feed her baby in the middle of the night or comfort her when she’s crying. This same bond waters the roots of trust and open communication with your baby and teaches him or her that she is loved, valued and respected.
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• Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Yesterday would have been my eighteenth wedding anniversary. Had my now-husband, then-fiance, not broken our engagement, that is. That was my first, first-person heartbreak. Meaning, I had gone through being a child of divorce, but that was more about my parents than about me. So, this was my first, big, hard thing. And it was devastating.
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• Sunday, March 07th, 2010

There are so many words that we use in our everyday speech, without even a thought as to where they originated. You may know that a word originated from another culture or language, but you may not be familiar with its origin.

The book, ‘A Certain “Je Ne Sais Quoi,”‘ by Chloe Rhodes, is just the book to help you learn more about all the common phrases that have become a part of the English language.

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• Sunday, March 07th, 2010

Picture this scenario: You’re having a tête-à-tête with an old friend from your alma mater, who is a wine aficionado. So you pick an al fresco table at a chic little café, and order from the a la carte menu. However, your companion won’t stop exchanging double entendres with the woman in the sarong at the next table. So you’re stuck listening to the klutz of a waiter droning on ad nauseam about the soup du jour. At that point, you’re ready to say hasta la vista — but you don’t want to seem like a diva.
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