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Dancing Tweens

They dont want to go to the dance. Why? Im not entirely sure but I must say Im not displeased by this development. So, you guys want to go to the dance on Friday night? I asked them the other day. How do you know about that? my 13-year-old daughter asked, raising her eyebrows suspiciously as she threw a glance over at her twin brother, wondering if I had indeed planted a spy in their middle school as Im always joking I will do.

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TV Characters are Getting Into Politics

In the recent documentary Miss Representation — which criticized American culture and the media for its negative impact on women and girls — child advocate Marian Wright Edelman lamented the scarcity of American women politicians saying that, “You can’t be what you can’t see.”

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Book Review: Father’s Day

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