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Want your teen to make a difference?

Jul 12, 2016

 Here’s advice from TeenMD’s pioneers.

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The droid you're looking for
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Education: Go team science!

Jul 11, 2016

Robot battles, drone tournaments, fan-filled arenas: The new brand of STEM education is goal-driven, group-oriented -- and giddily intense

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Relationships: It takes a village

Jul 11, 2016

... to stop a bully. The state has an ambitious new program to deal with the issue — and one zealous new anti-bullying czar 

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Money matters: Common cents

Jul 11, 2016

Modern financial literacy education teaches children to save for a rainy day — and for college, homes and more

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From no way! to Monet!

Apr 09, 2015

Introducing your child to art — how to look at it, how to make it — can be a fulfilling experience for both of you. Here’s how to do it.

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How your garden grows

Apr 08, 2015

As they sprout across the valley, school gardens are growing more than vegetables and herbs. They’re cultivating a broad new approach to elementary science education — and stronger community roots.

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Under the eggshell sky, 1976

Apr 08, 2015

For a 6-year-old, this was a magical city of lights, mysterious voids and basketball — the stuff memories are made of.

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The kid's got talent

Apr 15, 2014

These prodigies are off to a fast start thanks to their natural
gifts — and supportive parents

Annick Haczkiewicz

This queen of the greens might be future golf royalty

Thirteen-year-old Annick Haczkiewicz (hutch-kuh-veech) has a regular Friday night skins game that is anything but regular: “I play with a bunch of older guys that are like 80 years old and stuff, and we play for money,” she says, and often enough, Haczkiewicz wins. The older fellows like to give each other the gears about losing to a small girl, but really you can’t blame ’em — Haczkiewicz has a 2 handicap and a killer short game.

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Are we Candy Crushing our kids?

Apr 15, 2014

When it comes to kids and tech, no one knows how much is too much — but it’s clear all these screens are changing them

The iPotty — I’m not making this up — is a toilet training seat that looks like a small school desk, on which an iPad replaces the desktop. Or there’s Fisher Price’s Apptivity seat for newborns and toddlers — a baby bouncer with an iPad mount.

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Keep your friends close

Apr 15, 2014

In a hyperconnected digital age, how do you manage your kids’ social media use? Parents: If your head is spinning trying to keep up with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram, well, brace yourself for the next wave: Ask.fm, Tagged, MeetMe, Snapchat.

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Working it out

Apr 15, 2014

An unorthodox couple finds grace in the challenges of co-parenting

Family life now commonly comes with challenges that were exceptional a couple generations ago: divorced parents, joint custody, two-home arrangements. Diana England and Tammy Goodrich have all these, plus some other potentially complicating factors: They’re a same-sex former couple who adopted their children, Audrey and Logan, birth-siblings now 7 and 6 years old, respectively.

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