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I live in the state with the highest number of drownings in the nation for children age 1 to 4 (according to a 2007 Nova Southeastern University pilot study of drowning prevention practices in Broward and Miami-Dade counties).
In fact, in 2004, enough children drowned in Florida to fill four preschool classrooms, despite local and state […]

My husband and I took our children to the Smoky Mountains last week. It was a family vacation, our first one that was just the four of us, and I declared it a VEGETABLE-FREE, EDUCATION-FREE, FUN ONLY time. Of course, I didn’t actually say that to my children or my husband, I just whispered it […]

I’ve been pulling together some resources, to share with parents, about kids who use the internet. This is not an article about safety, but if you aren’t sure how to approach that, you should do a quick Google search. There is a lot of great information available. This is intended more as […]

My daughter and her good friend were chasing bubbles at the edge of our old neighborhood park one sunny day last week. As a man with a large, leashed dog came toward us, a particularly fierce gust carried a flurry of suds out over the wide sidewalk, and both kids ran out to pop them […]