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Millennial parents, your daycare for one child is like paying college tuition...
Child Care Aware of America’s map of cost of child care of Millennial parents found these statistics about Texas. Childcare Aware of American (yes, it’s a group that wants you to be aware of how much...
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Woman featured in CDC anti-smoking ad talks about pregnancy and smoking and...
Amanda Brenden is featured in Tips from a Former Smoker ad campaign from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nicole Villalpando/American-Statesman Amanda Brenden might look familiar....
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Zach Theatre announces its 2017-2018 season. What’s in it for families?
Zach Theatre has become one of the best theater for all — aka children’s theater — programs in Austin. Next season, it will bring some classic stories — “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and...
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Brave the rain on Friday, enjoy the sun Saturday and Sunday and these family...
Bullfighter Wacy Munsellbulllooks for an opportunity to distract a bull named 805 Major Malfunction. Mark Matson/Rodeo Austin 2014 It’s going to be a fabulous weekend for going outside and enjoying...
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Register now to make lemonade for annual Lemonade Day
Finn Holt was the 12-year-old winner of the 2016 Austin Lemonade Day contest. Photo from Austin Lemonade Day. Registration is now open for Lemonade Day Austin, May 6. This will be the ninth annual...
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Get free tickets to Pollyanna Theatre’s “All Aboard”
“All Aboard” is on stage with Pollyanna Theatre Company at the Long Center. Austin family theater group Pollyanna Theatre Company will be presenting its newest play “All Aboard” beginning next week at...
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Get your tickets to Parents’ Night Out at new Alamo Drafthouse, Thinkery
The new Alamo Drafthouse at Mueller will have family-friendly activities, including in the Barrel O’ Fun, but it turns into the Bar O’ Fun at night.RICARDO B. BRAZZIELL/AMERICAN-STATESMAN One of the...
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Get ready, STAAR tests are back
This week, kids in Texas will be sitting down with their No. 2 pencils and opening up a fresh round of STAAR tests and end of course exams. Here’s the schedule: Tuesday Grade 4 Writing Grade 7 Writing...
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NerdWallet says: Would-be parents have no idea how much a baby costs
This baby costs more than $1,000 or $5,000 a year. Andy Sharp / For the American-Statesman. Surprise, surprise, parents-to-be have no idea how much a baby costs. A new survey by NerdWallet of people...
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What’s happening in April for Austin families? Check out our calendar
Grace Miller (from left), Aiden Carney and Anabelle Aranda and receive large Easter baskets after being prize-egg winners for 3- and 4 year-olds at the Lakeway Eggstravaganza on March 28.KAREN WHITTY...
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Kids love butterflies? Add them to your garden for free
If you take a pledge to plant a garden that offers a food source for butterflies and pollinators at your house, your school or in your neighborhood, the National Wildlife Federation will give you a...
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Jump into April this weekend with fun for the family inside and out, March...
“All Aboard” is on stage with Pollyanna Theatre Company at the Long Center. Oh, it is going to be a thunderstorm-filled Saturday and Sunday. Brace yourself if you’re planning on going outside,...
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Could breastfeeding reduce hyperactivity in children? Maybe, says new study
Nursing moms can talk to a lactation consultant through Doctors on Demand and UpSpring. A new study that of 8,000 children that were part of the Growing up in Ireland data collection survey looked at...
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What do you do when you think you or someone else might harm a child? Follow...
Deacon Garay was killed by his mother’s boyfriend when he was 2 years old. Deacon’s Superman costume was used to make a teddy bear after he died. LAURA SKELDING/AMERICAN-STATESMAN 2014 It’s so easy to...
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See how YouTube sensation Caine’s Arcade became new Zach Theatre, Teatro Vivo...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U&w=560&h=315] Diego Rodriguez plays Jose Joaquin Hernandez in “JJ’s Arcade,” produced by Teatro Vivo and Zach Theatre. Almost 6 million people...
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Dell Children’s expands emergency care to Seton Northwest
Austin Police Assistant Chief, Steve Deaton, right, visits with patient, Isabella Moreno, 7, at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. Now kids can go to Seton Northwest or Seton Hays and be...
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Time to sign up kids for swim lessons for summer: Registration is open
[vimeo 100724669 w=640 h=360] Brigitte Decato, a swim instructor with the Swim Safe program at the YMCA, works with Octavio Ruiz, 5, (center) on the backstroke. 2007 Laura Skelding AMERICAN-STATESMAN I...
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Parents, are you burned out? Know the signs and what to do about it
Neil D. Brown wrote “Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle.” Are you stressed out? Do you feel hopeless? Do you feel like you’re a bad parent? Feel like your kid is impossible and unhelpable? You...
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What are girls thinking? New GEN survey finds stressed, savvy girls
Kensington Jordan dances to a DJ with other girls at the Girls Empowerment Network’s “We Are Girls” conference in 2015. DEBORAH CANNON / AMERICAN-STATESMAN As it hit its 20th anniversary of supporting...
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Ever think about taking a global trip with the kids? Local author Tsh...
Local writer Tsh Oxenreider wrote and her family started their yearlong journey in China, where they saw Tiananmen Square. Tsh Oxenreider With three kids in tow, Tsh Oxenreider and her husband, Kyle,...
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