Author Archives: Anonymous

How to Have Fun Learning

The internet is an amazing tool, for literally a countless number of reasons. But if you’re trying to help teach your children, there’s a plethora of websites that don’t really do a good job of it. Jill Robbins from sheknows has put together a great list of educational sites that don’t just educate, but entertain. So go take a look at

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Working Your Way to the Front of the Line

A Florida middle-school has come under controvesy lately with their lunchtime rewards plan for good students. Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Tampa, Florida, had instituted a policy that saw students with high marks in class given preferential spots during lunch lines. Other students with C averages or worse found themselves at the back. After protest from concerned parents, the policy

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Going Sober on Screens

We live in a digital age, but sometimes it can be important to get away from all of the distractions. Take the Bernaba family, who decided to try out removing all those conflicting and all-consuming screens and see what happens. Turns out, families grow further and further apart when they have distractions going off in between them, because obviously. It’s

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Breaking the Santa News

Every child has to learn that Santa isn’t real at some point, but sometimes it can get out of hand. Twenty six second graders in a Stoneham, Massachusetts school has a substitute teacher arrive into the class and, during the course of the day, casually brought up how Santa totally isn’t real, because that person is a monster. The children

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Making it Matter

Amy Anderson was pregnant with her third son, when tragedy struck. Tests revealed that he had a lower urinary tract obstruction that put too much pressure on his heart early on. He died in utero, after just twenty weeks. But Amy was still going through the physical fallout of being pregnant, and that means breast pumping. But with so much

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