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The 2025 Measles Outbreak: Time to Call Your Parents and Ask for That Old Vaccine Card

If you’ve been doom-scrolling through the news, you probably already know—a measles outbreak is back, and it’s spreading fast. For many of us, measles was just something our parents dealt with back in the day, before vaccines turned it into a distant memory. But now? Well, let’s just say if you’ve never been so grateful for childhood immunizations, now is the time.

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5 Ways To Teach Your Kids To Be Thankful This Thanksgiving

5 Ways To Teach Your Kids To Be Thankful This Thanksgiving

Thankful, teaching kids gratitude“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” – Cicero

Gratitude – or a lack thereof – is something all parents encounter during the process of raising children. At some point or other, what mother hasn’t looked on with horror as her child blurted out a variant of, “I don’t like this! It’s not what I wanted for my birthday!” or worried that her kids took the many blessings and privileges in their lives for granted?

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Shutterfly Pro Gallery by Wendy Irene

For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to work for myself, and have my own business. As a child I loved to block off our dining room, re-arrange chairs, and create a store. A store where I pretended to sell tickets to my dance recitals, or brownies that I had baked. I used lots of saran wrap, tin foil, and brown paper bags because of course a product had to be …