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Family

• Little-hands art can boost design - 10/23/2009

  Having moved five times in the last nine years, Pam Syx, now of Venice, Fla.

  
• Tips on managing children's artwork - 10/23/2009

  Some tips to make storing — or trashing — kids' artwork easier:

• The Princess and the Pedestal - 6/6/2009

  All the pink, frilly and sparkly — from the princess dresses to the four-foot-high pink castle in the playroom — isn't necessarily what...

  
• Tips for growing your kids' interest in the garden - 6/6/2009

  The National Gardening Association has lots of ideas for getting kids interested in gardening at its Web site, www.kidsgardening.org.

• What to do - 6/6/2009

  TODAY

• The reading bug - 5/30/2009

  All the students in one first-grade classroom at Talent Elementary School caught a bug this year, though not the kind that kept them home from school.

  
• What to do - 5/30/2009

  TODAY

• Art is life - 5/23/2009

  One hundred and fifty students from South Medford High School and another 125 from Wilson and Orchard Hill Elementary schools converged on a grassy...

  
• What to do - 5/23/2009

  TODAY

• Good, Green Fun - 5/16/2009

  When we ask kids what world issue is most important to them, the same word comes up over and over again: environment, environment, environment.

  
• What to do - 5/16/2009

  TODAY

• Saving on summer camp - 5/9/2009

  Preparing for summer camp used to be as simple as planning healthy lunches, writing a check and having little Johnny or Susie pick the type of camp...

  
• What to do - 5/9/2009

  TODAY

• Living in the now - 5/2/2009

  When my 5-year-old needs to use the bathroom right in the middle of a cartoon, she asks me to pause the television show.

  
• How to cope with the tough teenage years - 5/2/2009

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• OK, who forgot the rubber duckies? - 5/2/2009

  Spa treatment? That's what seven Dutch babies are getting: a post-massage soak in warm water.

• What to do - 5/2/2009

  TODAY

• Social networking or electronic harassment? - 4/25/2009

  If you're older than a certain age, let's say, ahem, 40 or so, and you're online, chances are you've been harassed — or rather invited,...

  
• What to do - 4/25/2009

  TODAY

• Reading, 'riting, recycling - 4/18/2009

  Endangered species, energy hogs and mountains of garbage may sound like insurmountable grown-up problems to little people looking to make a...