Playground on Shine

Summertime OUTDOOR Workouts: Easy, Fun & Fast

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Summertime all child-focused? Im here to help.

No gym membership? NO PROBLEM.

No TIME? No more excuses.

Join me as I workout at the playground while my tornado of a daughter wreaks her own brand of havoc around me.

TV-Free: Why does not having a television make me so unpopular?

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by Kate Haas

My family doesn't own a television. Our boys don't watch TV. And here's the thing: this is not about you. I didn't want to let the no-TV thing slip. I don't, usually. But my five-year-old spilled the beans when your daughter mentioned Dora and now you're…

Bullying Prevention Awareness Week: 5 tips to help your kids deal with bullies

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I've been spending some time on the radio over the past few weeks talking about schoolyard bullies. Most kids are a month into the new school year and while it seems like a short period of time, it's long enough for children to experience bullying. This week, October 5-11, is

Crabmommy: Beware of hothouse parenting!

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I'm lying on a bench at the playground. From the corner of my eye I see my daughter gesticulating at some kid. And he's gesticulating back. And they're looking tense. And one of them is climbing UP the slide! My body stiffens. UP the slide! If ever there's a playground no-no for me that's it. Because just think of all the things that can go wrong, the kids that can get hurt, the bad manners... And so on and so forth. But I'm not budging. Do I seem like I'm lazy? Actually, what I'm doing takes work. I am in fact trying very hard to resist a powerful urge to march over to the kids, observe, mediate, modify, and otherwise interfere with the business of child's play.