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Funny Parenting Tweets

This week’s best parenting humor in 140 characters or lessMy 5yo just told me our house is a dump. I was hoping he’d be at least seven before he realized that. AstronAmy (@SpacePlankton) February 20, 2014 Always scared that the white noise machine over the baby monitor is going to start delivering messages from the dead like that movie. Bunmi Laditan (@BunmiLaditan) February 18, 2014 When I boast to my wife that …

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Climb for Catherine: One Woman’s Inspiring Journey

On January 18, 2014, Heather Purcell Leja will leave for Argentina where she will attempt to climb Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas at 22,841 ft. She will be raising funds in memory of Catherine (Hudgins) Tuck, her friend and classmate at The Hockaday School in Dallas, Class of ’80. Heather is a recent survivor of anal cancer and she promised herself that she would make this climb if she survived healthy and …

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The Dangers of Children on Facebook

Your 5th grader arrives home from school and tells you that John (and you get a nervous feeling in your belly because John is the boy who picks on her and is known as the class Bully) took a picture of her with his phone and said he is going to take her clothes off in the picture then post it on Facebook.

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Build Your Children’s Confidence!

I have always said that the single most difficult thing to do as a parent is to sing your childrens praise only because its constant, never-ending praise. The you are so smart, funny, cute, fast, a great artist, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, football player etc. is mentally exhausting. I never got that as a child. I was the last of five girls, and I am sure that by the time I came flying out …