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When I look over the PyCon 2010 talk list, I'd like to be at about half of them (a physical impossibility, until I master self-multiplexing). Still, these are the ones that I'll move heaven and earth to be at. What about you - what are your favorites?Extending Java Applications with Jython I'm hopeful that this can really (Read More)
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Engadget:
We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands -- a hacker named ikex has created what's apparently the first iPhone worm, and it's currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The "ikee" worm, as it's being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailb (Read More)
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Tracy's face-and-table cleaning hack is as fun as it is practical:Back when my kids were babies, we'd keep a box of baby wipes on the kitchen table to use for post-mealtime cleanup. Once the kids got older, the wipes dried up because they just weren't getting used as much. But we still occasionally have sticky messes (like (Read More)
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Vanessa Van Petten wrote her first parenting book in her late teens and has a great parenting website, www.radicalparenting.com She sent this a few weeks ago and I think it bears repeating! Myth: Kids want to be your friend.Reality: Kids want parents, not peers. Kids want a strong line between the parent role and the frien (Read More)
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This beats my "just add frozen peas" hack hands down. From Kelli:When I would prepare a meal for the whole family our food was either too hot for our preschooler and toddler or too cold for my husband and me. Because we also have a seven month-old baby, we have cubes of pureed veggies sitting in the freezer (I froze them in (Read More)
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Laura's indoor bowling hack is simple, fun, and (basically) free:In late Fall, and Winter especially, it can get pretty boring to have the kids indoors most of the time. My three young boys and I came up with a bowling game that they love, causes no mess and keeps them entertained for a long time. It's active too!We take ou (Read More)
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Diet Blog:
I don't think anyone would argue that underage drinking is a huge problem.Not only does it reap havoc on the health of developing teens, but the impacts on society are devastating as well. As a former teacher, I would often have students who were possibly intoxicated while in class or nursing a hang-over from the night befo (Read More)
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Oct 10, 2009
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Sarah (who has been sending me good hacks for years!) offers this germ containment strategy:I use packaging tape to attach an empty tissue box to a full one (side by side) so that when my kids use a tissue they can stuff it into the empty box. No more stray dirty tissues lying around. Works great when someone has a cold and (Read More)
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Here's a dandy article that tackles talking to kids with Autism about sex. Here's an exerpt and the link! Lots of regular puberty books use contemporary language - 'teen talk', if you like - and while this can be fun and amusing, it isn't always to everybody's taste, so I decided that it was more important to treat the subj (Read More)
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I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy this last several weeks. Things like kids’ right to privacy and privacy rules in families. How much privacy to preschoolers need? Tweens? Teens? The rules seem to change as children age and, of course, from family to family. One thing I just remembered is that we parents have a r (Read More)
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Submitted by Shayna
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There are a thousand things that I am sure divorced couples do and do not want to talk about after the divorce. Here are a few things that I remember sneaking up on us and causing havoc between by divorced households.Set your agreed upon boundaries on the following topics with your ex-spouse for the benefit of the kids:1) (Read More)
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Submitted by Shayna
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I wrote this post for Girls with Dreams:How do parents teach their teen daughter that they have to learn whether or not a guy is only interested in sex? It is important dating lesson, one that teens are learning earlier and earlier.Here are a few tips I like to give teen girls when they start thinking about boys and dating (Read More)
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Geekdad:
This 2003 certificate is backwards compatible. (source: User Friendly, 7/25/2003)Today is the 10th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, a special event that encourages everyone to thank your SysAdmins for all the long hours spent on the front line of technology battles, preventing and/or cleaning up our computer me (Read More)
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Submitted by Louisgray
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Let’s take a quick look at Louis Gray’s “Father” hat that I mentioned in “Part 1” of this hypothetical case study and how it might earn him some money.Under any hat, there may be one or more subhats. Since Louis has twins, his personally chosen father hat might look like this:Parent Father Twins Paternal Bo (Read More)
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Submitted by Jgmize
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When it comes to theories about how to best raise kids, I’m a big believer in what might be referred to “a resiliency approach” to child-rearing. That is, instead of endlessly coddling our children and hovering over them like “helicopter parents,” as so many parents do today, I believe it makes more sense to instill some c (Read More)
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