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Even the youngest babies wear red this month for heart disease awareness
Babies at St. David’s Women’s Center of Texas wear read hats on Thursday. St. David’s Women’s Center of Texas. Thursday at St. David’s Women’s Center newborns there were given red knit caps in honor of...
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Celebrate an early Valentine’s Day with family fun this weekend, Feb. 10-12
It should be a beautiful weekend for exploring Austin with your family. Try these family events: Friday: Tinkering Tots: Build the City! 9:45 a.m. Fridays for 2-year-olds; 10:45 a.m. Fridays for...
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Away from hospital, models at Children’s Blood & Cancer Center fashion show...
The Fashion Show grew out of the prom that the Children’s Blood & Cancer Center at Dell Children’s Medical Center holds every year. (RICARDO B. BRAZZIELL / AMERICAN-STATESMAN 2015) Confidence....
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Let this bear reveal your baby’s gender
Expecting parents are now coming up with clever ways to reveal their baby’s gender. Now you can buy a stuffed animal to help you. My Baby’s Heartbeat Bear comes with a bear in a gender neutral box....
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Get ready for summer camp with these tips
Clara Brady, 8, climbs at the Rock About Climbing Adventures Camp in Reimers Ranch last year. JAY JANNER / AMERICAN-STATESMAN We’re getting excited about our summer camp guide. Find in on Feb. 24 at...
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Keep track of your child’s teammates on the field with new Name the Teammate app
Name the Teammate app lets you follow your child’s game from your phone. Austin mom Laura LeMond has two boys ages 14 and 16 who grew up playing flag football. She remembers having to ask a fellow...
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Want to teach your tot Spanish? MamaLingua app can help
MamaLingua app helps parents and their young children learn Spanish or English. It’s from the minds of Austin moms Aileen Passariello-McAleer and Christia Madacsi Hoffman. MamaLingua Aileen...
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Do you remember Doublescoop column in the Statesman?
Before there was Raising Austin, there was Doublescoop, a column that ran in the Statesman several times a week. The goal was to give kids ideas of what to do during the hours between the end of the...
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Let’s go fly a kite and family fun this weekend, March 3-5
Marc Alcedo shows his daugthers, Avery, 4, left, and Cameron, 6, right, the fine points of kite flying at annual Zilker Park Kite Festival in 2010. Deborah Cannon/AMERICAN-STATESMAN There’s so much...
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New all-kids programming channel coming to KLRU
If you love “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” you will be able to watch it on 18.4, KLRU PBS KIDS. (PBS) KLRU, our local PBS affiliate, will soon offer kids’ television programming 24 hours a day, seven...
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What’s new from Cartoon Network? Talking STEAM education and moving beyond...
The new “OK KO!” from Cartoon Network premieres Monday at SXSW. Hey, kids. Cartoon Network has begun to figure you out. It knows that you like to do more than just sit down and watch a TV show. It...
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New study: Moms who find out they are pregnant are not drinking
Most women stop drinking the moment they find out they are pregnant. Photos.com Vanderbilt University surveyed 5,000 women as part of a study of early pregnancy health about their use of alcohol during...
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Woman featured in CDC anti-smoking ad talks about pregnancy and smoking and...
Amanda Brenden is featured in Tips from a Former Smoker ad campaign from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nicole Villalpando/American-Statesman Amanda Brenden might look familiar....
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See how YouTube sensation Caine’s Arcade inspired new Zach Theatre, Teatro...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U&w=560&h=315] Diego Rodriguez plays Jose Joaquin Hernandez in “JJ’s Arcade,” produced by Teatro Vivo and Zach Theatre. Almost 6 million people...
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Parents, are you burned out? Know the signs and what to do about it
Neil D. Brown wrote “Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle.” Are you stressed out? Do you feel hopeless? Do you feel like you’re a bad parent? Feel like your kid is impossible and unhelpable? You...
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What are girls thinking? New GEN survey finds stressed, savvy girls
Kensington Jordan dances to a DJ with other girls at the Girls Empowerment Network’s “We Are Girls” conference in 2015. DEBORAH CANNON / AMERICAN-STATESMAN As it hit its 20th anniversary of supporting...
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Olympic, UT track star Sanya Richards-Ross talks pregnancy before Capital One...
Sanya Richards-Ross, an Olympic track and field athlete and a member of Athletes for Hope, a non-profit focused on philanthropy through sports, huddles with students from Brooke Elementary School after...
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Sending a kid to college in fall, helicopter parent? Now’s the time to land...
Incoming freshman Maxwell Gaddy from Midland gets help from his father Chris and sister Jenna, 16, moving into Duran Residence Hall Friday morning at the University of Texas at Austin.RALPH...
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No cellphones before eighth grade? Wait Until 8th wants parents to make that...
Yep, Ben Villalpando got a phone in sixth grade. He used it often to talk to friends, look up stuff for classwork and let us know when he had a) missed the bus, b) left something on the bus or c)...
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Beautiful weekend ahead for Austin families – check out these events, April...
FRIDAY Wildflower Center. Sprouts. Hands-on preschool program. 10 a.m. Fridays. Wildflower Center, 4801 La Crosse Ave. wildflower.org Thinkery. Tinkering Tots: Mini Music Makers! 9:45 a.m. Fridays for...
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