The Maybe-Baby Dilemma

What to do with unused embryos, a byproduct of a booming fertility business, is a question patients are rarely prepared to deal with.

Voices: Mom vs. Mom

Anxiety fuels mom competition to score swine flu shots for their kids.
Swine flu is making some alter their holiday plans

Kids should not be
seen or heard in theater

Even when they’re good, they’re unwanted distractions.

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One might want to dismiss "The Blind Side" as just a phony feel-good story in which an African-American youngster from the projects is rescued by idealistic white people and given a bright future. In this case, however, the story happens to be true and it's mighty involving and entertaining, even if director/screenwriter John Lee Hancock lays it on a little thick.

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Child Caring

Race and identity: Do parents of biracial kids face special challenges?

November 18, 2009
When social scientist Marion Kilson's children were born, in the 1960s, she assumed that they would identify as African American, like their father, not European American like herself. "I was still in graduate school," she remembers. "I wrote my term...
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Flu Blues, Part II

November 15, 2009
Thanks to all of you who chimed in on No shot at a shot: When you can't get the flu vaccine I see I am not the only furious parent out there. I especially appreciated the comments from the...
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I Said, You Said

I got a job! Well, I already have a full-time job that keeps me pretty busy as a stay-at-home mom. But I just got a job outside of the home. I feel embarrassed saying it, but I’m pretty excited.

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Barbara's Mailbag

Barbara Meltz is on vacation. Her Mailbag will return Monday, Nov. 23. If you have a question for Barbara, submit it here.

Voices

Give thanks you’re not related

Family values took a hit this year with some high-profile people in the news.

Parenting Traps

Play time

Getting prepared for harmonious musical-instrument practice.

Sunday's Child

Faith has talents, qualities a loving family will prize

Faith has talents, qualities a loving family will prize

Faith is 11, a lovely little girl who is somewhat quiet and shy and somewhat unsure and critical of herself. But that is only because she is not yet aware of the wonderful qualities she possesses.

Early education and care

The state Department of Early Education and Care lists all licensed programs - family child care, center-based and school-age.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children, whose accrediting process of center-based programs and preschools is a widely-accepted proxy for quality, lists accredited programs.