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Crossing the Line

It’s probably true that we’ve all been in a situation where someone else’s child is out of line, and they’re either not there or simply not doing anything about it. In fact, it tends to happen a lot around the holidays when we start visiting with family and friends who we don’t see everyday. When faced with this situation, we’re often tempted to scold the child in loco parentis – or, hey, maybe even discipline the negligent parents themselves. After all, we’d never let our kids behave like that. Which is exactly why an article in Newsweek caught my eye recently. In it, Kathleen Deveny lamented just this situation – and claims she still regrets not having taken it upon herself to say something to someone else’s child in a situation or two, rather than buying into what she calls one of society’s “parenting taboos.”

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Back to the Backyard

What do you do when baby comes home, you quit going to the gym, and several years later you still have yet to lose the baby weight? According to a recent article in The Washington Times, the solution for time-pressed yet exercise-deprived parents is to make fitness a family project.

Lots of gyms and fitness centers have already thought of this, which led to the creation of numerous family fitness programs and even brand new fitness centers dedicated to allowing families the opportunity to get moving together. Parents and their children of all ages can take part in a variety of family-friendly classes ranging from swimming to jogging to dance. Yet club memberships or trips to the gym aren’t the only way to get your family in shape.

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Not the Same Latchkey Kids

Good news for all those parents whose heart breaks every time they drop their kids off at daycare or leave them with a nanny and head off to work. According to a GfK Roper Consulting survey, kids claim to be much less affected by working parents than we tend to think they are. Which, at the very least, should relieve some of that maternal guilt.

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