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How to Make Pom-Pom Animals from Martha Stewart's Favorite Crafts for Kids

How to Make Pom-Pom Animals – Martha Stewart’s Favorite Crafts for Kids

  Need some summertime craft projects to keep the kids busy? Martha Stewart’s Favorite Crafts for Kids has ideas for all ages and skill levels. Here’s a sneak peek at how to make Pom-Pom Animals!     Pom-Pom Animals from Martha Stewart's Favorite Crafts for Kids by CrafterNews

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DNA and Ancestry

Years of wandering through my family’s DNA and dusty archives in faraway countries (to say nothing of clicking into the all-night abyss that is the internet) have given me solid respect for people who take up genealogy as a hobby. Tracing family history is like putting together pieces of a puzzle without knowing how the [...]

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Five Tips for Encouraging Healthy Interfamily Relationships

Five Tips for Encouraging Healthy Interfamily Relationships

  How do you know when the line separating good old-fashioned rivalry and true bullying has been crossed? And when should you, the boss, step in and shut down what might have become a one-way barrage of insults or jibes? The same rules apply both at the office and at home. 1) Remarks about personal [...]

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Quiz: What Type of Mom Are You?

Read more about I Am So the Boss of You…

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8 Parenting Tips from Kristine Barnett

KRISTINE BARNETT is the mother of Jacob Barnett and his 3 younger siblings. She runs a daycare that includes both typical and special-needs children. She is also the founder of MyJacobsPlace, a nonprofit organization designed to help children with autism, as well as an award-winning sports league for autistic children. 1. Genius is more common [...]

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Six Social Media Tips to Pass on to Your Kids

Six Social Media Tips to Pass on to Your Kids

  Just in case you’ve been living under a rock and somehow missed this whole phenomenon, let’s backtrack and clarify what we’re talking about here. Social media is a term generally used to describe information and conversations that happen in the digital space, through recognized “socially” enabled services/tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, foursquare, [...]

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Summer Camp Moms

Six Reasons Why Business Trips Are Like Summer Camp for Moms

  1) While away on a business trip, you have a set schedule of activities to accomplish during the day. At camp, these activities are listed on a sheet hung by the cabin door, and there is little flexibility. On a business trip, these activities have been entered into your smartphone, and there is a [...]

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Food Has the Ability to Bring People Together

  The following is an excerpt from The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis The poor, marginalized and hungry rarely get a place at the discussion table. Most people don’t even bother to ask why there is so much hunger and [...]

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It’s Not WHAT You Say; It’s HOW You Say It

Welcome to the Relationship Revolution! Making Marriage Simple is the accessible, essential road map to building a strong marriage in the modern world. Bestselling authors Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt distill into ten essential truths what they’ve learned about how to create a successful and satisfying relationship. Below is an excerpt about how to [...]

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How Food Can Grow a Community

  Meet Nick Saul & Andrea Curtis, they’re the authors of  The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement. They’ve stopped by Crave by Random House to share their story of how they food brought their community together! When we decided to build a raised bed vegetable garden [...]

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