Resolutions and Reflections: Getting the New Year Started Off Right

January 01, 2009

Ah, the new year. A clean slate, a fresh start. White, crisp sheets of paper ready for the next chapter of your family's story. A time of possibility, predictions, and promises. Resolutions and reflections. Do you have rituals to start the year off? Good luck charms like black-eyed peas or grapes or long, slurpy noodles to eat? A book you

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Wise Words from T.S. Eliot on New Beginnings

January 02, 2009

New Year's festivities, it seems, are a way of celebrating new beginnings for their own sake. Something must be left behind, but something exciting, if not entirely known, is ahead. And so we come together to toast and rejoice. Those of us raising small children are immersed in new beginnings. We can't escape them if we try. Indeed, if we

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A Reading List for the New Year, Preschool-Style

January 05, 2009

So many (and so many wonderful) books for preschoolers are about bedtime , closing down after a day, quieting down and putting an end to things for at least a stretch. But starting a new year is like waking up from a winter's nap, and what about books about getting going, making a start of it, looking ahead? Well, there's A Great Day for Up ,

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The Big Picture: Five Things We Do as Parents that Really Matter (and Some that Really Don't!)

January 06, 2009

Call us conflicted. We tend to cast a jaundiced eye at the "new year, new you" promises we hear this time of year. And, yet, we place real faith in any opportunity for reflection that offers a bit of perspective, a perch from which we can look at ourselves, see what we like, wince a little at what we don't, and resolve to tip the balance a bit

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Savvy Welcomes Jacque Grillo's 10 New Year's Resolutions for Parents

January 07, 2009

TEN PARENT RESOLUTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR Resolve that one day each week will be a day without television, videos, computers, and electronics of any sort. Shut the things off. Reclaim your homes. Resist the pressure to become your child's day planner, social secretary and entertainment organizer. Allow for days where nothing is

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