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Military kids bowl

JEB Little Creek- Fort Story Youth Days at the bowling center: Mondays and Thursdays beginning June 18 through August 27 from 9 am to 2 pm, $1 per game plus free shoe rental. Open to all ages 18 and younger, adults accompanied by a youth will receive the same special rates.

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05/13/2012

Globe trotting with kids, solo

As I write this month's column, my three children are reading, playing a video game, and watching the sun set over the left wing at 36,000 feet. We're flying to South America for spring break on our latest adventure.

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05/02/2012

Pooch, meet baby.

Newborn babies have a way of taking over a house - fast. Rooms get rearranged, equipment piles up and new sounds and smells fill the hallways, from crying and cooing to dirty diapers and spit-up milk.

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05/02/2012

In the Loop: Groovy Gear

Help Mom this Mother's Day with a pet of sorts, one that requires little work and actually makes life easier. These "animals" will keep her organized - and smiling.

a mini trunk

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05/02/2012

In the Loop: Kids Culture -- Books

May is the month to celebrate Mothers Day and what better way than to curl up with a book and Mommy. These titles will touch your heart.

Mama and Me by Arthur Dorros, illustrations by Rudy Gutierrez.

Rayo, 2011.

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05/02/2012

Risk of injuries as sports season begins

Nearly 30 million children and adolescents participate in youth sports in the United States each year. According to the National Athletic Trainers' Association, more than half of all sports injuries occur at practice.

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05/02/2012

So you want to be my kid's friend?

Welcome to the Van Slyke Children's Friend Screening Process! We'd like to thank you for your application and it will be reviewed in the order in which it was received. It is truly an honor to have you apply to be a friend to one of our boys. Please make sure to indicate whether you are applying to be friends with 7-year-old Aidan, 4-year-old Kyle or both.

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04/04/2012

Flat Stanley has an adventure

Thanks to military friends around the world and the speed and reach of social media, my son and his first grade class learned a powerful lesson about the kindness of others and traveled vicariously thousands of miles with Flat Stanley.

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04/04/2012

Hop to it

Stop me if you've heard this one before: there was an old lady who ate a... grasshopper.

No, not the jumpy kind with legs and antenna and eyeballs looking back at you, but the culinary grasshopper - a term used to describe the classic combination of mint and chocolate.

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04/04/2012

Braces. Is your child ready for them?

For many former metal mouths, brace faces, train trackers and zipper lips, visits to the orthodontist didn't begin until the teenage years. But times have changed: increasingly, orthodontists are evaluating younger kids and in some cases advising early work on baby teeth, hoping to lessen time in braces later.

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04/04/2012

In the Loop: Groovy Gear

"Going Green - and Clean" is my motto this spring, and I need my tween daughter's help to make it happen. So I bribed her with cute clothes, accessories and supplies. Here's what we discovered together keeping with our green theme; I plan on having just as much cleaning as we did shopping!

Clean sweep

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04/04/2012

In the Loop: Kid Culture

Newbery Medal winner

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011.

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04/04/2012
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