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Best Baby Products of 2018

Every parent has a few baby products they absolutely can’t live without—gear they’d choose to take on a desert island instead of a lifetime supply of chocolate. We asked Babylist families to fill us in on their three must-have baby products. Thousands of parents nominated hundreds of products, which we analyzed to create this list. And with no further ado, …

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12 Dating Tips That Will Transform Your Love Life

By Arielle Pardes Real talk: Dating is sometimes harder than it should be. After countless dinners and drinks, it can be tempting to throw in the towel and resign to nights of forever watching Netflix alone in your bed. But when dating is done right, it can be amazing, and those great dates often lead to great relationships. So consider this …

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Top 10 Greatest Tech Gadgets for Parents

by: Nicole Fabian-Weber   1. Pacifier Thermometer   Summer Infant Pacifier Thermometer, Teal/White   It’s the perfect antidote to taking baby’s temperature “the old fashioned way.” Beside the fact that the pacifier thermometer makes it so we don’t have to combat wiggly, kicking legs (and a few yelps!), it’s a great way to see if baby has a fever in …

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75 Movies Your Kids Must See Before they are 10

By: Melissa Heckscher Looking for a great flick to watch with the kids at your next family movie night? Hoping to introduce your child to the films that defined your childhood? From A Miracle on 34th Street to Despicable Me, here’s our definitive list of the movies your kids absolutely must see before they’re not so little anymore. Grab the popcorn. 1. E.T. (1982) Still one of …

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My maternity checklist: Essentials for hospital and after

If your new baby’s nearly here, it’s time to get your hospital bag ready. Here’s a new baby checklist so you can take all the essentials to hospital with you – and make sure you’ve got the baby basics in place for when you get back home. Baby essentials 3-6 sleep suits, depending on how long you think you’ll stay …

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The 13 Key Benefits of Early Childhood Education: A Teacher’s Perspective

By Vicki Palmer When children are young, they are learning sponges. Every new experience, every word they learn, every behavior they adopt, is an investment in a more fruitful future. You can never have a greater impression on a person than when they are in their early childhood years. Most parents have always inherently understood this and the Government is …

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Surviving the Summer

The final bell rings and excited children everywhere flee the school in happiness…this marks the start of the Summer Vacation. As children dream of this day quickly approaching, parents and caregivers look for help to keep the kids busy and to avoid hearing those dreaded words… “I’m Bored!” Hopefully I can bring some ideas and insights to make this the …

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What Are The 10 Main Intuitive Eating Principles?

By Juliet Kuehnle, MS, NCC, LPC What Are The 10 Main Intuitive Eating Principles? The 10 main intuitive eating principles are: 1. Reject the diet mentality. This idea that there’s got to be some diet that will work for you – often with lots of unreasonable rule. 2. Honor your health. 3. Honor your hunger. Keeping your body biologically fed with an adequate intake. …

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UAB professor receives award for malaria prevention study in pregnant women in Cameroon

Jodie Dionne-Odom, M.D., assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Division of Infectious Diseases and chief of Women’s Health Services at UAB’s 1917 Clinic, has been awarded a five-year, $841,000 K23 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. The award will fund a randomized controlled phase II study …

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Higher Math in Lower Grades: Hurting or Helping Kids?

by Education.com Every parent wants to see her child keep up with peers, and these days that means taking algebra in the eighth grade. But sometimes we forget that algebra is a very demanding course, full of sophisticated and abstract ideas. Do students really need to take this higher math course in lower grades, or can it do them more harm than good? …

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