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10 nutrition powerhouses for kids
Get your kids addicted to these colorful, tasty, nutrient-packed superfoods, like blueberries, cocoa, cinnamon and more. It’s a fact of life: Chips, cupcakes, and lots of other not-so-nutritionally noble foods are going to find their way into your child’s mouth. Heck, if left to their own devices, a lot of kids wouldn’t eat anything that…
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The End of the Best Friend
The End of the Best Friend – NYTimes.com. A Best Friend? You Must Be Kidding But increasingly, some educators and other professionals who work with children are asking a question that might surprise their parents: Should a child really have a best friend? Most children naturally seek close friends. In a survey of nearly 3,000…
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People always ask me what I do for a living…
What does a community manager do? – Blog – The Intersection of Community, Communication and Content. Here is a good blog entry by another person who does Online Community Management for a living. I am always given a hard time because I am on “Facebook” or about this blog. I do this for a living people.…
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Teaching Girls Programming
Here’s a pic of Hannah and her partner working on a small basic training module on Sunday. I wrote about it last week: Teaching Kids Programming Event. Although I think Hannah was a bit younger than the ideal age to introduce some of the concepts, it did spark some overall interest in programming. One the…
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Don’t Forget – Tomorrow Michelle Obama Talks to AOL Health About ‘Let’s Move’ Website
First lady Michelle Obama is speaking exclusively to AOL Health this morning about the relaunch of the website for her “Let’s Move” campaign. The first lady laid out her ambitious plans to combat the childhood obesity epidemic last February, calling on parents, educators and businesses to work together to help children eat healthier and move…
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The Clothes Make the Girl: Groceries vs. Dining Out
The Clothes Make the Girl: Groceries vs. Dining Out. My family eats out more than I would care to admit. Busy lives, easy convenient restaurants = eating out. I do have to say that for the most part – it is not McD’s but as we all know – unless we prepare it at home…
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SMALL BASIC – TEACHING KIDS PROGRAMMING
Join us July 11th for an event that will transform the lives of 20 young girls. Programming? For girls? ….YES! Programming has evolved and now more than ever girls have the opportunity in a world they’ve only known through technology to shape and mould the future of our society. So many young women have already…