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Are Smartphones the New Pacifiers?

In times past, parents have pacified unhappy or tired children by giving them a toy or game (or a pacifier). The concept is alive and well today, but something has changed. With the rise of tablets and smartphones, parents are starting to use them to pacify a restless child.

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Six Ways To Save Money This Holiday Shopping Season

Deck the halls with boughs of savings! If you’re looking for ways to stay within in your budget this holiday season, look no further. Jodi Furman – smart shopper extraordinaire and the lady behind fabuLESS – has great tons of tips to help you save money while checking all the boxes on your holiday gift list.

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Are We Raising a Generation of “Calculator Kids?”

Forty years ago, an Indiana electronics company brought a product to market that did more to impact the way we educate our kids than almost anything else in the past century. The company, Bowmar Instruments, began selling the first handheld pocket calculator – for a whopping $240!