Primary Sites:
BabyZone.com *
BabyZone.com is North America's fastest growing Parenting website.
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Cooking for Your Vegetarian Kids ****
ISBN:1859679641
Author:Roz Denny
Publisher:Lorenz Books, Anness Publishing Ltd. (London, England), $26.50 (CAD);
If you could look up "picky eaters" in a dictionary, the definition would be "kids." Even if you describe a recipe to them and tell them it has some of their favourite foods in it, quite often the reaction is going to be (as only children can say it) "eeeewww." Vegetarian kids are no different.
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Failing Our Kids: How We Are Ruining Our Public Schools -- Why Jonnee kant spel gud *
A major difficulty in giving prominence to education is that it is seldom newsworthy. Although everyone knows education is important, it never seems to attain the priority of a police search for a criminal or a health crisis such as the need to contain SARS.
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Promoting Healthy Body Image *
Wondering what you can do to encourage your daughter to develop a
healthy relationship with food, an active lifestyle, and a positive body
image?
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The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids -- Families: Please excuse the mess *
There's a reason teenagers sometimes seem crazy, writes MICHAEL VALPY. Underneath that baseball cap, there's a brain that's still under construction
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Adoption: And baby makes one *
Bren Hoadley spent thousands of dollars trying to adopt a foreign child, writes MARGARET PHILP. Now she has an empty stroller and a message for other would-be parents
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Folic acid crucial for mothers, research suggests *
Canadian researchers have made a startling discovery about the benefits of folic acid. The nutrient, which is added to foods to prevent neural-tube defects such as spina bifida, also appears to prevent one of the most common forms of childhood cancer.
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Let's Get Ready for Kindergarten (Lassau review) ****
Four stars: "It's a great guide as a benchmark to help parents to realize what their child should know by the end of Kindergarten." evalu8.org's Parenting Editor Marissa Lassau rates this book at four stars. Mother-recommended in actual use.
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Much-Needed Resources for Unique Families *
Canadian publishing house Groundwork Press is publishing books that it knows many families will be happy to have in hand. And how does it know this?
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Sanity Savers: The Canadian Working Woman's Guide to Almost Having it All ****
ISBN:0075605392
Author:Ann Douglas
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., $21.99 (CAD)
This comforting and humorous book is full of innovative solutions to help balance busy days. Offers advice from more than 200 diverse professionals plus tips and anecdotes from real life working women. Ready to hit the panic button? This book's for you!
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Sanity Savers
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The Myth of Ability: John Mighton, educational alchemist *
Does this Toronto playwright have the secret to turning dunces into fraction-cracking mathletes? As TRALEE PEARCE reports, his new book uncloaks the mystery
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