In order to protect your property with home insurance, you need to establish rules in your home that can be grasped and followed by your family members, especially the kids. They are not aware of any danger and they move freely. They pick up the things that they see and they do not care if [...]

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Since today is National Trail Mix Day I thought that it would be a good idea to give a quick and easy recipe for trail mix, in its honor. Trail mix is often taken on the road to increase your stamina and your energy levels.

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News from around the worldwide web... School's barely back in session and already the suspensions have begun. A first grader in Texas has been given in-school suspension for violating the school's dress code. His offenses? Wearing his hair too long, and sporting an earring.

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There is nothing like spending a week vacation with your kids to make you want to send them back to school as soon as humanly possible. If I have to break up one more it's-my-turn-to-play-Angry Birds!-fight, I'm going to lose it. Needless to say, I'm counting down the days 'til I can send my two boys off to be someone else's responsibility for a few blissful hours so I can bolt to the nearest coffee shop to sit and stare off into space.

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Bullies have always been as much a part of going to school as reading, writing and ‘rithmetic, but many of today’s pint-sized tyrants have gone beyond a little lighthearted teasing and cutting in line to plain and simple cruelty -- in some especially horrific cases, victims of "extreme bullying" have been forced to drink toilet water or even worse, harassed until they committed suicide such as in the case of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince. To combat kid aggressors, New Jersey has implemented an Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights, which takes effect tomorrow.

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Inspired by a new HBO documentary about Gloria Steinem, Katie Couric asked on her Twitter feed the other day:  Are you a feminist? YES, I tweeted, in caps. I am now and always have been.

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UPDATE: JC Penney is pulling the shirt from stores and apologizing. See their full statement below. JC Penney is selling a girls' T-shirt that proudly declares "I'm too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me." Wow. Just...

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When I was a kid, I would watch “The Wizard of Oz” almost every day. The idea that a tornado could lift an entire house seemed believable to me at the time, and whenever tornadoes were predicted in my town, I would worry that my house would be lifted away into the sky. Recently, I experienced [...]

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Fellow blogger Michele Cheplic recently blogged about "Slave Labor." Or should I say, kids doing chores.

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