Submitted by Reechard
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Scott Olson / Getty Images As neo-Nazis take to the streets this weekend, officials say their new boldness echoes the homegrown terrorism of the 1990s. James Verini talks to the extremists leading the charge. A year after President Obama's election, hate groups are feeling bolder than they have in (Read More)
WebMD Health:
A study showing kids shed H1N1 virus six days after a fever strikes is raising questions about how long children with swine flu are contagious. (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
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It’s a sad statistic, even if it’s one I made up on the spot. Let’s look at the facts through, there are a lot of things that can kill your project: flagging economy, bad planning, incompetent teammates (everyone else), incompetent founder (that’s you) or just plain vanilla stupidity but the one that strikes most often and (Read More)
WebMD Health:
Eleven children died of H1N1 swine flu last week, raising the October child death toll to 43 -- more child/teen deaths in one month than seen in a normal 8-month flu season. (Read More)
Parenting.com: Mom Tips and Expert Advice:
Researchers from the University of Toronto have some earth-shattering news, folks: parents lie to their kids. "Our findings showed that even the parents who most strongly promoted the importance of honesty with their children engaged in parenting by lying," said Kang Lee, one of the scientists of the study. (Read More)
Parenting.com: Mom Tips and Expert Advice:
Each year, Working Mother magazine (part of the Parenting group) publishes their list of 100 companies that really get how important work-life balance is for employees with children.
See the full list here.
Here's a summary of some of the perks. (Read More)
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)
Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen:
Weird, contrarian business ideasOne of the best books I’ve read in the recent past is Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense by Stanford Professor Bob Sutton. (He now also has a great book called The No Asshole Rule, which you may have heard of also) In the Hard Facts book, he talks about a variety of differe (Read More)
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)
Submitted by Shayna
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I had been struggling to teach my oldest son, Jaken, how to ride a bike. I tried several approaches throughout the learning process. We started off with the traditional route of raising the training wheels off the ground so he would have to learn how to balance on his own. However, all he did is lean at an angle so t (Read More)
Submitted by Shayna
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This question has been on our minds quite a bit recently, as our three and a half year old son continues to grow and mature. We’ve long planned on giving our children small allowances that are not tied to household chores, and now we’re actually faced with a child that’s nearing the maturity level to understand it.He under (Read More)
Submitted by Fruchter
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Wanted to share the following post with all of you. This post comes from the Vice President of MARCOM (Marketing & Communications) Tim Hawley.Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd . . .Father’s Day is something special for all of us who are raising or have raised children. Through the ups and downs, we’l (Read More)
WebMD Health:
The birth of children has an immediate negative impact on even blissfully happy couples raising stress and undermining satisfaction levels of both husbands and wives new research says. (Read More)
Submitted by Seansharp
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Ann writes:"My son, who is now 19 months, has entered the wonderful world of temper tantrums. We've figured out that a tantrum is morelikely when a meal is later than normal, so we're handling that. I'veseen Harvey Karp's "Happiest Toddler on the Block" video, and I wastrying that technique (basically, speak for your toddle (Read More)