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things to do
- 'Babes in Toyland' screened at BPL
- Tropical forest at Franklin Park Zoo
- Golden Books exhibit at Eric Carle Museum in Amherst
Family Filmgoer
How could the dashing Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson deliver anything less than biting repartee and emotional nuance in equally amusing doses?
featured blogs
Tips and tricks learned along the way: What are yours?
December 28, 2009At Working (on) Motherhood, Leah mentioned her favorite happy parenting accidents -- you know, the kind of parenting lifesavers you discover when you were trying to do something else. Which led me to start sifting through my own arsenal of...
Three days and counting...
December 22, 2009Looks like there was an overnight B&E at Ye Olde Advent Calendar. (Two elves in Natick are wanted for questioning in the case.)...
blogroll
featured community blog
Momicillin
I sat down at my computer to type this morning and found myself faced with a mental void. Gone were the to-do lists, recipes, presents, Christmas tunes, and the thousand other thoughts that could be categorized under ''Christmas 2009.''
- A Mom's World
- A Mother's Sojourn
- A Suburban Mom:
Notes from the Asylum - Auggie's Bookshelf
- Before I forget...
- Bold *Brave* Best Self: Parenting Resilient Teens
- Boston Family Life
- Boston Mamas
- dadtoday
- Dadventures in Beantown
- Diary of a Yummy Mummy
- dooce
- Eat, Drink and Be Mommy
- Eco Babyz
- Fairly Odd Mother
- Figs and Cupcakes
- FitMamaEats
- Food Allergy Buzz
- FoodieMommy
- Great Kids, Great Outdoors
- Green Mountain Moms
- Herspective
- HeyGirlMommaGo
- I Said, You Said
- Ladybug's Picnic
- MamaStories
- Manic Mommies
- Minnie Mama's Blog
- Mom et al
- Mom on Reserve
- Mombian
- Momicillin
- Mommy Niri
- Mompreneur Musings & The Quest For Balance
- Motherhood for Real
- Motherhood is Not for Wimps
- My Truant Pen
- New England Kids's Blog
- Rainbow On Your Plate
- Suburban Bike Mama
- The 36-Hour Day
- The Fashionable Housewife
- The Math Mom
- The Son Always Rises, but the Daughter Sleeps In: A tale of OPB*
- The Wise (*Young*) Mommy
- While She Naps
more news & features
- Surfing the Net with kids: To-do lists
- Op-ed: My lazy American students
- follow-up US students lazy, flirty
- Reimagining 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'
- Swine flu poses new risk to new mothers
- Zero tolerance can mean zero due process
- Mother calls cops on shoplifting daughter
- Boy revived after choking at class party
- Court rules dorm room search by BC legal
- You heard their cries
- New parents in need seek help to deliver their son a gift of joy
- Two former Medford youth soccer coaches face child rape charges
- Two EMTs called 'inhuman' for leaving pregnant woman
- Her sailing dreams dashed, Dutch teen charts troubled course
- MTV’s ‘Teen Mom’ revisits ‘16 and Pregnant’
- Spreading holiday joy to all
- A modern soldier’s story, told on mom’s blog
- High schools catching up with head injuries
barbara's mailbag
A serious fear of doctors
My 9-year-old has a really hard time at the doctor and dentist. She gets extremely anxious and protests being examined. -- Allison, Auburndale
Voices
Too much family drama on TV
We're not asking for an ''Ozzie and Harriet'' redux, but couldn't TV and movies show one happy home?
Parenting Traps
The season’s gifts
This year there’s less to give, but maybe more to receive.
Sunday's Child
Jack balances being active with diligence in class
''Active'' defined by Jack, 13, means playing football and experimenting with skateboarding tricks. ''Active'' also includes enjoying the outdoors.
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.