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Kid Tips: Tips on keeping the kids in bed until morning
As you tiptoe out of your preschooler's bedroom after three bedtime stories, four hugs, two requests for water and two unnecessary visits to the...
Oakland Tribune, 11/25/09 by Tom McMahon · More from publication -
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Parents, I'm going to let you in on a well-kept secret about your children: They appreciate you. They are grateful for all you have done for them....
Oakland Tribune, 11/18/09 by Tom McMahon · More from publication -
Kid Tips: Teen girls have greater burden than boys
Teen girls have a much greater burden than their counterpart boys. They give birth to 750,000 to 800,000 babies each year in the U.S. Forty-five...
Oakland Tribune, 11/11/09 by Tom McMahon · More from publication -
Kid Tips: Kids, go read to your dog
PETTING A DOG is soothing for both giver and receiver. It can lower your heart rate, calm you down, improve your mood and reduce stress....
Oakland Tribune, 11/04/09 by Tom McMahon · More from publication -
Kid Tips: This toy fosters thinking outside the box
The simple cardboard box, first used in the U.S. in 1895, has reached a milestone for providing countless hours of creative and make-believe child...
Oakland Tribune, 10/28/09 by Tom McMahon · More from publication -
Kid Tips: Anxieties are strong with infants
Babies have lots of anxieties that come and go during their first two years of life. Two of the most challenging for parents are stranger anxiety...
Oakland Tribune, 10/21/09 by Tom McMahon · More from publication -
Kid Tips: Dads, daughters and puberty
According to many of my female college students, dads sometimes keep a little more physical distance with their daughters after puberty begins. A...
Oakland Tribune, 10/14/09 by Tom McMahon · More from publication -
Kid Tips: Adolescents and religion
During the LAST decade, researchers such as Laurence Steinberg, author of "Adolescence," have shed light on an accumulation of data pertaining to...
Oakland Tribune, 10/07/09 by Tom McMahon · More from publication -
Kid Tips: Kids love finger food for school lunch
Much that is learned about children in developmental psychology seldom trickles down to the folks who could use it the most: parents. For example,...
Oakland Tribune, 09/30/09 by Tom McMahon · More from publication -
Kid Tips: School uniforms are a fashionable idea
Ten years ago my wife, two daughters (ages 9 and 12) and I moved to Cambridge, England, for one semester as I ran a study-abroad program for my...
Oakland Tribune, 09/23/09 by Tom McMahon · More from publication
