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Giveaway: Who wants “Shaun the Sheep” tickets?
Animated film “Shaun the Sheep,” from the creators of “Wallace & Gromit” and “Chicken Run,” will be released in the United States on Aug. 5, but you can see an early screening at Alamo Drafthouse...
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What a chair can do: Hand to Hold, an Austin family and the Kangaroo Chair
Teddy Boyd tries out the Kangaroo chair with father Nick at the Ronald McDonald House Family Room at Seton Medical Center on Tuesday. When Teddy Boyd was born on Nov. 13, he was two months earlier than...
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We’re all about back to school all the time here
I just finished our Back to School package, which will run in print on Aug. 8. Following my own advice, below, I looked up such things as when do my kids have orientation and discovered that egad, my...
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First day of school still 12 days away and we’re already tired
This week we’ve got back-to-back school orientations, one for middle school and one for high school, dentists and doctor appointments, one parent orientation. Next week it’s another parent orientation,...
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Last weekday before school starts. What are you doing?
This was Ben Villalpando at the start of the school year last year. Monday he heads to high school. We’ve hit the doctor’s offices, but hopefully, you’re actually doing something fun before the daily...
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First day of school hooray!
Driving Ava to middle school for the first time. Today Ben started high school and Ava started middle school. Yes, it really is happening. They are teenagers. For the first time in nine years I did...
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Are kids playing anymore? Study says not once they reach age 9
Dea’wntanique Sorrells-Walker, 9, works out during the KnockOut Club Volleyball Camp in July. As kids get to age 9, they are playing less. You have to find more organized activities. Joe Harrington/...
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Evidence that I now am the mother of two teenagers
Skipping the elementary school drop off on Monday and heading to middle school should have been my first clue that we really have hit the teenage years. But this week there’s been even more proof. I’m...
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Study: Parents want to hear more from teachers, teachers want to hear more...
Second-grade teacher Meredith Scaggins writes her name on the board for students on the first day of school at Eanes Elementary School. Teachers want to know what is happening in their student’s home...
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Austin mom Jennifer Bourgoyne’s solution to C-section scar pain: soft, padded...
Jennifer Bourgoyne founded Czela Blue, a company that creates underwear for women that have had C-sections. Austinite Jennifer Bourgoyne found a solution to something that no one probably wants to talk...
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Mark the milestones with photo cards
You will want to celebrate when Baby does sleep through the night for the first time. Miffy Milestone Cards will help. The first kid had a baby book that made it through maybe the first nine months....
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Before you ask for a teacher change, talk to the teacher
Most teachers want to know when there is a conflict between your child and them or a story that your child brings home that doesn’t make sense. Juli Naranjo teaches a science camp in the summer as...
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Choo Choo! Thomas the Tank Engine is coming and I have tickets
Update: We have picked a winner: Matt Hendrickson. Check back to austin360.com/raisingaustin for more family-friendly event ticket giveaways. Thomas the Tank Engine rolls into Burnet Sept. 18-20. Jay...
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What’s trendy in baby names? Bruce Lansky has the answers
Bruce Lansky wrote “100,000+ Baby Names.” I blame Reese Witherspoon. In 1999, she had a daughter, she named Ava. She planted a seed in a lot of people’s heads. Myself included. When we went to name our...
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Five myths about car seats and other things you should know about kids in cars
As part of Child Passenger Safety Week, Safe Kids Austin sponsored a free child car seat inspection. 2007 Ralph Barrera/American-Statesman. Buckle Up for Life, a national child safety passenger...
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Parenting teens is tough, but rewarding, St. Edward’s professor Sara...
Sara Villanueva wrote “The Angst of Adolescence.” St. Edward’s University psychology professor Sara Villanueva wants you to know that the love/hate relationship you’re having with your teenager is...
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Get your car seat inspected for free
As part of Child Passenger Safety Week, Safe Kids Austin sponsored a free child car seat inspection in 2007. They will do the same this weekend at Highland Mall. 2007 Ralph Barrera/American-Statesman...
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Ticket giveaway: Family four-pack to Barton Hill Farms
Search the “Great Pumpkin” maze at Barton Hill Farms. We are heading toward cooler weather (let’s hope!) and fall festivals. Sept. 26 two pumpkin patches and hay mazes open up. One at Sweet Berry Farm...
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Looking ahead to October: Lots of family event, Halloween fun
The Austin Zoo puts on Boo at the Zoo next month. DEBORAH CANNON / AMERICAN-STATESMAN Believe it or not, I’ve spent this work day working on my October family calendar. Here’s what we have to look...
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What are you doing for Austin Museum Day on Sunday?
The new planetarium at the Texas Museum of Science & Technology will allow the museum to show different types of star shows as well as do star talks before. I love Austin Museum Day because not...
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