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Dreams Resorts Launches Partnership with Master Chef Junior

In January, Hyatt Hotels and Endemol Shine North America, producers of the FOX hit cooking competition show, Master Chef Junior, announced a unique collaboration that promises to cook up fun and adventure at participating Dreams Resorts and Spas. Together, the brands will offer innovative culinary experiences designed to delight families and make the all-inclusive dining experience even more delicious!

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How To Raise A Teenager Without Losing Your Mind

Most parents do not relish parenting teenagers. Teaching them to drive is terrifying. Catching them drinking – and puking – for the first time is appalling. The horrors of teenage sexuality. The surliness, the lying, the sleeping until 3 pmDealing with teenagers is a grind, a bore, something to be SURVIVED.But I love being a parent to teenagers, as I recently told Michel Martin on NPRs Tell Me More.There was a parenting roundtable …

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Why Sexting is Not Child Porn

It’s horrifying to parents: why would our children WANT others to see naked pictures of them? Why do we have to even TALK to our children about the many reasons that voluntarily taking, sending, or sharing nude pictures is not in any child’s best interest? But despite our horror over this digital and cultural divide…

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Should You Go to Jail If Your Teen Drinks?

The story I’m about to tell is not unusual. But it’s personal, tragic, and common, repeating itself almost every day throughout our country. We parents need to pay better attention. Three summers ago, a picture surfaced of then-candidate for Maryland governor, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, at a party attended by his teenaged son. The…