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Let’s go fly a kite and family fun this weekend, March 3-5
Marc Alcedo shows his daugthers, Avery, 4, left, and Cameron, 6, right, the fine points of kite flying at annual Zilker Park Kite Festival in 2010. Deborah Cannon/AMERICAN-STATESMAN There’s so much...
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Is your kid ready to search for college? Austin-based SchooLinks helps make a...
Each college has a profile page on Austin-based SchooLinks, which was created to help connect high school students to potential colleges. SchooLinks This college thing is looming in my house. Every...
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New all-kids programming channel coming to KLRU
If you love “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” you will be able to watch it on 18.4, KLRU PBS KIDS. (PBS) KLRU, our local PBS affiliate, will soon offer kids’ television programming 24 hours a day, seven...
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Looking ahead: 5 things to do with Austin kids during spring break
Bullfighter Wacy Munsellbulllooks for an opportunity to distract a bull named 805 Major Malfunction as fighter Lance Brittan lands after being hooked by the bull when he was saving bull rider Reid...
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Here comes the Easter Bunny! Find him at your local mall
Sam Peraza, 2, smiles as he looks up at the Easter Bunny Sunday at the Upper Valley Mall. Staff photo by Bill Lackey I have to say, I still don’t understand this tradition of going to the mall to get a...
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Did your kids attend Westminster Presbyterian Day School? Reconnect for 40th...
Westminster Presbyterian Day School’s Ruth Ann Lostracco with her son, Anthony Lostracco, who was one of the first students, and his children Hutton and Parry, who are students at the school now. She...
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Your kids don’t conform? Good news. That’s a sign of intelligence in the...
Is your kid the kind of kid that would do the exercises with mom if you went to a Tribe class or is your kid the one would be walking around? Alex Winkelman Zeplain/Tribe A new study in the Journal of...
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Put these things on your spring break to-do lists
The ABC Zilker Kite Festival has been rescheduled to Sunday, fingers crossed. AMERICAN-STATESMAN 2012 Spring break is a great time to reset the clock, as it were, on your family life. And, of course,...
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Can women have work-life balance and have a career? Lisen Stromberg discusses...
Lisen Stromberg wrote “Work Pause Thrive.” Lisen Stromberg was at South by Southwest Sunday signing her book “Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career.” (BenBella,...
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What’s new from Cartoon Network? Talking STEAM education and moving beyond...
The new “OK KO!” from Cartoon Network premieres Monday at SXSW. Hey, kids. Cartoon Network has begun to figure you out. It knows that you like to do more than just sit down and watch a TV show. It...
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New study: Moms who find out they are pregnant are not drinking
Most women stop drinking the moment they find out they are pregnant. Photos.com Vanderbilt University surveyed 5,000 women as part of a study of early pregnancy health about their use of alcohol during...
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10 things “Beauty and the Beast” can teach your kids that you’ll want them to...
This image released by Disney shows Dan Stevens as The Beast, left, and Emma Watson as Belle in a live-action adaptation of the animated classic “Beauty and the Beast.” Disney Tuesday night we watched...
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International study being done at Dell Children’s for Niemann-Pick disease...
Pam Andrews, her husband Chris Andrews, and their two children Belle, 7, and Abby, 2, color together in their home in Southwest Austin last May. RESHMA KIRPALANI / AMERICAN-STATESMAN Dell Children’s...
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Parents, new free support group open to Austin middle-schoolers with mental...
#OK2Talk is a support group for teens. Last fall we wrote about the rate of suicide, specifically among middle school girls. One of the hopes was that our local National Alliance on Mental Illness...
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Need a babysitter in a hurry? UrbanSitter app connects you with Austin sitters
Parents on UrbanSitter can see sitters who have been used by other parents in their social circles. Lynn Perkins is like many of us. She’s a working mom with three boys. On her way to Austin to speak...
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Raising a beautifully blended multicultural child? New book from MixedNation...
Luke Whitehead started MixedNation and the Eracism campaign. Sixteen years ago, when we were expecting our first child, my husband and I wrote a column in the Statesman for a year about raising a...
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Your kids and poison don’t mix. Some reminders for poison prevention week
Laundry detergent pods are one of those household items we don’t think of as poisonous, but they are. It’s National Poison Prevention Week. (I know you’ve marked your calendars for this one.) And these...
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WebMD now studying pregnant women who use its app
WebMD is asking women who are pregnant and use its pregnancy app to help gather information about pregnancy risks. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that in the United States about 65,000...
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Ready to spring clean your kids’ toys? Now you can recycle them
Turn your broken toys into park benches and picnic tables. TerraCycle, Tom’s of Maine Oh, I know there are toy boxes all over Austin that are full of broken toys that don’t work, haven’t been thought...
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Chess takes 14-year-old Emily Nguyen around the world
Emily Nguyen, 14, is ranked as a junior girls chess player and is going to be playing in the U.S. women’s championship in St. Louis. Nicole Villalpando/American-Statesman Emily Nguyen was 4 when she...
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