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    How Much Do You Spend On Your Kids’ Activities?

    ByKat Hours Nov 13, 2019Sep 24, 2020
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    How much do you spend on your kids’ activities? Is cost the major consideration — or time, or logistics (such as dropoff/pickup)?

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    3 Ways to Teach Kids a New Language

    ByKate Antoniades Hours Sep 7, 2016Nov 1, 2018
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    I still remember the big day in 6th grade that we got to choose the foreign language that we’d start learning: Spanish, French, or German. (I picked Spanish.) Many schools in the U.S. still don’t begin to teach kids a new language until middle school, while most European countries, for example, start instruction of a second language when kids are six to nine years…

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    School Break Camps: Open Thread

    ByKate Antoniades Hours Feb 10, 2016Feb 18, 2021
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    Do your kids go to school break camps during winter and spring school vacations? With day care, you usually don’t have to worry — just send them to your regular provider. But parents of school-age kids need to find an alternative child care situation. Good sources for information about school break camps include local parent magazines and websites, and…

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    Childcare | Extracurriculars | Grade Schoolers | Mom Issues

    Your Kids’ Activities, Overscheduling, and Working Parents

    ByKat Hours Sep 16, 2015Sep 24, 2020
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    A reader wondered, “Kat, could we do a discussion on overparenting/overscheduling when a working mom?”

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