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Love science? Check out the Curiosity Cube at Earth Day Festival
The Curiosity Cube will be at Earth Day Festival on Saturday. MilliporeSigma photos If your kids love science, this might be something to check out this weekend. The Curiosity Cube from MilliporeSigma,...
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Austin teen heads back to school after New Year’s Day heart transplant
Rome Henderson, 13, returned to school on Monday after having a heart transplant on New Year’s Day at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. Robyn Henderson photos On Monday, 13-year-old Rome Henderson...
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Did you see Austin’s Zach Anner on “Speechless”?
Zach Anner fist bumps with Micah Fowler in a scene from “Speechless.” ABC/Richard Cartwright This week’s “Speechless” on ABC featured a guest role for Austin’s Zach Anner. Anner, you might remember,...
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Your infant, toddler doesn’t have healthy eating habits, study finds
Is your baby being encouraged to eat fruits and vegetables? Andy Sharp / For the American-Statesman. A new study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics today, which will be in the June issue...
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Like Jimmy Kimmel, Austin family knows about Tetralogy of Fallot heart condition
Jimmy Kimmel’s heartfelt monologue Monday on the “terrifying thing” that his family had gone through had everyone talking about the proposed replacement for the Affordable Care Act and pre-existing...
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New Nanit baby monitor helps you track how baby sleeps
The Nanit can see your baby when he’s sleeping and tell you if he’s awake. Nanit [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qASwMefxodM&w=560&h=315]Is there such thing as too much information as a...
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Dealing in girl drama? You don’t have to, says Texas author
Does it feel like “Mean Girls” at your house? Cady (Lindsay Lohan), Karen (Amanda Seyfried), Regina (Rachel McAdams) and Gretchen (Lacey Chabert) took out much of their drama on their mothers as well...
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Shop, eat and cycle your way around Austin to help foster kids
Kids in a New Groove music teacher Missy Hance coaches a student during a recital. COURTESY OF KIDS IN A NEW GROOVE This month, Kids in a New Groove, which provides music lessons for kids in foster...
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It’s not your imagination. Girls’ clothes are so much smaller than boys’
Girls Will Be offers shorts that are not so short. Girls Will Be Imagine you have twin 6-year-olds, one boy and one girl. You hit the boys’ and girls’ departments of your favorite clothing store in...
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American Academy of Pediatrics: Quit giving babies fruit juice
What’s in this baby’s cup? It should only be milk or water. American-Statesman 1999 Children younger than age 1 should not be given fruit juice, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a...
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Sharing a room with your baby might lead to less sleep, study finds
Babies should share a room with their parents until 6 months to a year, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends, but a new study finds they don’t sleep as well in that scenario. Have a baby and...
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Is there such a thing as ‘dry drowning’? How can you prevent it?
Morgan Shirley, 7, leaps into Mabel Davis Pool. Shelby Tauber / AMERICAN-STATESMAN The story of the 4-year-old boy who died in Houston from “dry drowning” has parents everywhere wondering what is “dry...
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Is Texas a great place to be a working dad? Not really
Photos.com WalletHub, a financial site that loves to crunch numbers, released its 2017’s Best & Worst States for Working Dads report. How did Texas do? Not great. We’re No. 38. But what’s worse:...
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Back to school to-do list: Improve your child’s online reputation
StudentMakeover helps students get rid of the bad posts and create good content about themselves. Our kids are online and playing with social media, often before they have the maturity to do so. That...
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Pediatricians should ask parents if there are guns in the house, new study...
This Sunday, March 29, 2015, file photo provided by the Jefferson Police Department shows a gun involved in the accidental shooting of a 3-year-old in Jefferson, Ga. Shootings kill or injure at least...
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Plan your July with these family events in Austin
Families will once again gather to at Zilker Hillside Theater for the annual summer musical. This year “The Wizard of Oz” is playing. Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN 2008 July is a great time for...
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Follow “The Wizard of Oz” and other family events, July 7-9
Families will once again gather to at Zilker Hillside Theater for the annual summer musical. This year “The Wizard of Oz” is playing. Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN 2008 It’s back. The Zilker...
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Back-to-school to-do list: Consider donating school supplies
As you head up and down the school supply aisles in the coming weeks, consider teaching your children a valuable lesson: The joy of helping others. Each year, thousands of kids in Central Texas show up...
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What are you doing with the family this hot weekend? July 21-23
The heat is on. Keep that in mind as you are heading out this weekend for some family fun. Expect to see very little (probably no) rain and temperatures in the 100, 101 range. It will feel much hotter...
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Raising quintuplets? What another Austin-area mom can tell the Hodges family
Sunday, we wrote about the last Hodges quintuplet leaving Seton Medical Center after being born on March 24. Liz and Daniel Hodges headed home with daughter Teagan and sons Connell, Liam, Nolan and...
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