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Set aside family fun time, on a budget
Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:12 Written by Hilary Dickinson Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:10
Going to movies and festivals is fun family entertainment, but that can get pricey.
That fiscal factor is one of the reasons why Beloit family game manufacturer, Patch Products, currently is encouraging families and groups to bond through board games through its annual Million Minute Family Challenge.
Playing board games, however, is just one of the many inexpensive, family-friendly activities Beloiters can partake in during these tough economic times.
Spending quality time together, regardless of the expense of an activity, is huge in children’s development because it increases the chances of them involving parents in major life decisions as they get older, according to Jennifer Fruin, who often works with families as the director of the counseling program at Family Services of Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, Inc.
What happens when parents clash over the children?
Written by Administrator Wednesday, 18 November 2009 15:11
Meals. Bedtime. Discipline. The reasons parents clash over the kids are endless, especially now that more unemployed dads are filling in for back-to-work moms as the bad economy grinds through a second year.
Nerves are definitely taut on today’s home front, compounding the challenge for parents looking to navigate and negotiate disparate views on child-rearing.
“I’ve never seen such stress in parents and families,” said Michele Borba, a psychologist and mother of three boys who has written 22 books on parenting. “The recession is causing stress, number one. And number two, it’s a pressure-packed world. Parents are very often at that level when they think being a to-do list is more important than who they are.”
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It's a boy? Some moms struggle with disappointment
Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:59 Written by ANGIE WAGNER Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:55
My good friend just found out she is pregnant with a boy. It is her first child, and instead of celebrating the good news, she cried during her ultrasound.
That's because she really wanted a girl.
Good mothers are supposed to say they are happy with a boy or a girl, as long as the baby is healthy. But gender disappointment is a very real and heartbreaking issue that affects many pregnant women.
Christine Lich of Lindenhurst, Ill., always assumed she would have a girl. Instead, she got three boys. She wanted to appear to be the perfect mother, so she never let anyone except her husband know her disappointment.
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A is for alphabet
Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 November 2009 22:41 Written by Leanne Italie Wednesday, 04 November 2009 22:14
Alphabet books aren’t just for preschoolers anymore. They’ve exploded into mini-encylopedias stuffed with real lessons on a broad range of subjects to attract bigger kids, too.
There’s still plenty of simple, comforting rhymes by the letter, but some publishers have pepped up the genre by providing extra text to suit readers as old as 12.
How guilt-ridden parents can learn to live with TV
Written by Administrator Tuesday, 27 October 2009 21:09
NEW YORK (AP) – It was hard not to hear the banging, the fake gunshots, coming from the next room.
I tried to tune it out. A snowstorm had left me at home with my 6-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, but I still had work to do. That meant turning on the electronic babysitter, the television set.
My editors wanted a story about a Parents Television Council report saying children’s TV is studded with violence – even more than in prime-time – and that much of it is darker and more realistic than when Elmer Fudd aimed his gun at Bugs Bunny.
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