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A Rhyming Game You Can Play In The Car

Two summers ago, when my daughter was really getting interested in letters, I started playing a rhyming game with her in the car one day that was both lots of fun and educational. My daughter really got into it and we were able to play it for long stretches, which helped the travel time pass [...]

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“Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” – The Last Lecture

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” – Randy Pausch Red Pill Parents, it’s late at night, but this was just too good/important/uplifting/moving not to share with you immediately! I just finished watching this 1 hour 16 minute lecture by Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor who is most famous [...]

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Talking To Our Children About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Today, my dear friend Ann Ruckert, a musician, composer, arranger and educator, posted the following on her blog at www.annruckert.com. While she may have been born at an earlier time than many of us current parents, she is the embodiment of a Red Pill Parent. A conversation that I had with her several years back [...]

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Raising Thinking Citizens

As a gentle snow fell on New York City this past New Year’s Eve day, I had the good fortune of attending a US naturalization ceremony at the Federal Courthouse in Manhattan. While observing the faces of the new citizens and their friends and family who came to share this special day with them, a [...]

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Tips From “Food Rules” – Michael Pollan’s New Book & Going Gluten-Free

Nutritionist, activist and author, Michael Pollan, has a new book which distills many of the ideas presented his earlier works, “The Omnivoire’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” and “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” into simple food rules. These are wonderful rules to teach to children of any age. Whether kids follow [...]

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Outraged? Yes! Cadmium in Children’s Products China’s Latest Export (USA TODAY)

Since the CPSC lead paint toy recall, I have had my doubts about all children’s products that are made in China. Here’s new reason that we should remain skeptical at the least and simply avoid all Chinese-manufactured products that our children play with and wear at best. Perhaps this could be somewhat of a boon [...]

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I Am An iPhone Addict (please help!)

My wife and I are trying. She has her own fashion business and I work from home. As much as I hate to admit it, my iPhone is usually on the floor next to me while playing with our daughter. I check it at red lights while driving. It’s on the table at restaurants and [...]

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Through The Seasons: One Year In 90 Seconds

Thanks to the work of Eirik Solheim from Oslo, Norway I was touched deeply by the magic of nature. For an entire year in 2009, Mr. Solheim captured 30 seconds of video roughly every week and edited the year’s footage down to a total of 90 seconds. If you have a child nearby, why not [...]

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Thinking About Speaking | Detriments of Gossip And It’s Permanence On The Web

After reading a piece about the effect of gossip on our culture and the way that it affects the way our children speak and interact, this article suggests that we teach our children to ask three questions before we say something to or about someone else: 1) Is it kind? 2) Is it True? 3) [...]

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Will Your Kids Still Be KooKoo For Cocoa Puffs?

From CNBC article dated Dec. 9, 2009: “The Rudd Center recently published a study that found the least-healthy breakfast cereals are the most frequently and aggressively marketed directly to children. It also found that General Mills markets to children more than any other cereal company, and six of 10 least-healthy cereals in its study were [...]

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