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Healthy neighborhoods can reduce the risk of diabetes

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Do you live in a healthy neighborhood? Is there such a thing as an unhealthy neighborhood? Personal choice has a big impact on many aspects of our health, but do we really have the wherewithal to choose our lifestyle, or do most of us fall into a pattern determined by what’s easy to do and what everyone else is doing? Sure, there are a few motivated individuals who swim against the stream and set their own trend. Most of us don’t. Whether we realize it or not, we follow the lead of our parents and friends and do what’s easy along a path of least resistance.

Playtime is over, time to get off the Playground~

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Shine- TGIF~~ Now to get down to business... Playtime is over, now it is time for ME to get off the playground. My recent argument with my "man" over that toilet seat (see wednesday's blog) really got my mind going. AND after talking to my Twin~ I realized that…

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…

5 Second-Grade Boys Found with Heroin

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Wait, how the heck did a bunch of second graders score heroin?

For now, the Philadelphia Police…

Playground Couture

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As you know, I spend my Monday and Wednesday afternoons over in Brookline babysitting too great girls. This means I get to catch up on my kid shows (recently, that means lots of iCarly) and hang out on the playground.

I've started to get to know the the girls...

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

5 Best Playground Pick Up Lines

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Most of us have put the singles scene behind us and have happily retired any and all pickup lines we may have once used such as gems like â€œIs...

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.