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When Your Daughter Is Getting Married (And You Have 6 Kids)
When my children were young I would throw some of the most amazing birthday parties. Every year I would throw six fun birthday parties, one for each child with a theme, decorations, and activities. 20 years later I still bump into to parents and children who share their memories of the Newsome kids’ birthday parties.…
How to Survive a Road Trip With Your Kids
As a family, we are lucky enough to take a few vacations during the year, all are within driving distance from our home (between two and five hours away).
Are You Ruining Sports For Your Kid?
Every fall, there’s a bright shining sports moment when the four most competitive, most watched professional men’s games are simultaneously played in the United States. Sadly for Mets fans, gloriously for the Royals, the World Series ended Sunday night. But basketball, hockey, and football offer daily consolation. As so many of us, alongside our kids,…
How To Teach Kids About Money
It should be easy to teach our kids about money. We have it, they need it. The leverage is clearly on our side -- which is not always the case with parents and kids. But teaching children to respect money with out granting it too much power remains one of the more contentious, emotional, and…
What is Tay-Sachs Disease?
Hearing the words "progressive degenerative genetic neurological disorder" is a shot to the heart. That's exactly what I felt like had happened. I had been fatally wounded, and I hadn't even seen the sniper. Being told by a (now, in my mind) nameless faceless doctor that my seemingly otherwise healthy ten-month old daughter was terminally ill…