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T. rex clothes only

T. rex clothes only

My 3.5-year-old Josiah is very into dinosaurs lately. I think the fascination started after he first watched “The Land Before Time.” Did you know there are 14 “Land Before Time” movies now, plus 26 episodes of a TV series? My husband and I learned the hard way that after the first movie, composer James Horner

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Hand-me-downs

Hand-me-downs

One of the many things I did not anticipate about parenthood is how much time I would spend sorting through clothes. Kids, of course, grow. I knew that. But I didn’t realize it would mean pawing through my daughter’s dresser drawers every month or two, evaluating what still fits and what’s still in season. I

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Starting solids

Starting solids

Somewhere around 5.5 months, our baby started lunging for the food on our plates. She’d watch us eat and start to salivate. Was she ready to try real food? We decided she was. My husband and I were both spoon-fed baby food from jars. He was a picky eater; my mother recalls a period when

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Ear-replaceable memories

Ear-replaceable memories

Last weekend my daughters experienced an important rite of passage: ear piercing. They were determined to get their ears pierced after watching the 1998 version of “The Parent Trap,” where Lindsay Lohan, playing a pair of twins, plunges a needle into her sister’s ear at summer camp. The girls wondered if they would scream like Lohan

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Fresh squeezed fun

If you ever begin to fear that random acts of kindness or joyful interactions with strangers have become a thing of the past, then I have a recommendation: Set up a lemonade stand. This simple and timeless ritual inspires the very best of humanity. We set up a stand on Sunday, in the gap we

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