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How to teach your kid to love the Beatles

How to Teach Your Child to Love The Beatles

Or Can My Nostalgia Please Be Your Childhood? Part 3 Like Star Wars, The Beatles have become part of our everyday conversations. People quote them now almost like Shakespeare – I mean without even noticing they’re quoting s...

by William Scheckel

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How to Treat a Patient Who’s a Dad

I caught my doctor in the act of treating not just my problem, but treating me as a dad, too. In the 5 years I’ve been one, it’s the only time it’s happened. Here’s what happened: Last spring, my doctor ...

by William Scheckel

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How to Talk about Death with a 5 Year-Old

Last week, my 23 year-old nephew David died and as family was about to gather, it was important to tell my 5 year-old son what had happened, what the next few days would be like and how he should be a part of it (or not). I’m...

by William Scheckel

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Star Trek, or How to Make Your Nostalgia Be Part of Their Childhood (part 2)

I’m much more of a Star Wars fan than Star Trek, but they each have their place. For me, Star Trek meant hanging out with my brothers while Kirk, Spock and McCoy solved the galaxy’s problems. And in 1976, a Star Trek...

by William Scheckel

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Saturday Projects: Lowes vs. Home Depot

Ahh the weekend. What to do, what to do? Both Lowes and Home Depot have an answer for you: handiwork projects with your kids. So far, we’ve built monster trucks, race cars, bird feeders and there’s a basketball hoop game co...

by William Scheckel

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Picture This: Preserve Your Memories, Even if they’re Digital

What do people grab when they are forced to leave their home in a disaster such as a fire or a flood? After accounting for other members of their family and pets – they usually run back into the building for their photographs...

by Dan Unger

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