Subject: On Parenting: Preparing kids for college is not for the weak
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 12:00:28 -0400

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ON PARENTING

PREPARING KIDS FOR COLLEGE IS NOT FOR THE WEAK
Here are a few tips on how to slow down the emotional merry-go-round as you prepare for the college drop off. 
By Linda Wolff
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WHY ARE AMERICAN MOTHERS RARELY PORTRAYED AS COMPETENT?
Slapstick Mom who dominates maternal images is not an accurate reflection of the lives of millions of mothers—and fathers—who make it work and do right by their children every day.
By Michele Weldon
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1,001 STORIES: SHARING TALES OF &#8216;WHEN MAMA WAS LITTLE&#8217; WITH MY SON
Call me Scheherazade. Unlike the heroine of "A Thousand and One Nights," I use my storytelling powers not to appease a king, but to satisfy the craving for narrative in my 4-year-old.
By Kate Haas
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AFTER HER FATHER&#8217;S INFAMOUS INCARCERATION, SHE&#8217;S JUST A KID MISSING HER DAD
She's a 3-year-old kid, growing up with an incarcerated parent, who takes trips every other month to a correctional facility the way her friends take trips to the zoo. 
By Morgan Gliedman
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I TAKE MY KIDS TO THE PLAYGROUND SO THEY&#8217;LL ENTERTAIN THEMSELVES. IT&#8217;S NOT WORKING.
Grown-up days are busy too, and sometimes Daddy needs to just sit here and stare at the mulch for 10 minutes.
By Jeff Vrabel
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KIDSPOST
CURIOUS ABOUT TURTLES? THE SHELLED REPTILE IS EASY TO OBSERVE.
20 species of the animal live in the Washington area, on land and in water.
By Ann Cameron Siegal
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