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Last Minute Stocking Stuffers

It’s almost that time! Well, if you stepped into any CVS right after Halloween, then it’s been that time for quite a while. The holiday season is here!  Sleigh bells are ringing, your children aren’t listening … ever, the slow is glistening and your house is totally decorated and ready for some holiday action. You’ve…

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Kids Have No Filter: Funniest Reader Submissions

Last week, we featured a blog post called “Frank and Funny: Kids Have No Filters.” It’s about those moments when your child says something totally embarrassing and you wish the floor would just open up and swallow you whole. You know what we’re talking about – you’re in a public place, when all of the sudden your little darling loudly points out some observation or repeats something you once told them.

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Misty May-Treanor Welcomes Baby Girl

Its a girl for Misty May-Treanor! The three time Olympic beach volleyball player and her former professional baseball player husband Matt Treanor welcomed their first child, Malia Barbara, in Long Beach, California on June 3 her representative told PEOPLE. The baby girl most likely gets her middle name from May-Treanors mother Barbara, who died of cancer in 2002. The 36 year-old new mom posted on Facebook, We were so blessed to welcome this …

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Don’t Lump My Son In With Mass Murderers

Another mass shooting. This time, in my own backyard. I can be in Santa Barbara in under two hours. I have a writers retreat there in June. It?s gorgeous, idyllic, peaceful, and a college town. With mass shootings on our minds yet again, families with people on the autism spectrum are again having to ask the general population to not label our kids. Here?s an example (post-the latest shooting): One headline in particular angered me …