Get out of the heat and expose your kids to the creative work of other kids. Pint-sized actors, singers and dancers will show off their stuff at 5 p.m. Friday, July 9, in "1001 Dalmatians." The production is part of the theater camp of the Hollywood Arts and Culture Center. Tickets ar...

Techie tweens are saying goodbye to dolls.

Do your girls still play with Barbie? Or would they rather be on the computer?

Here is a report in today's Miami Herald looking at the trend:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/02/1 ... dolly.html

If you're not into grilling, Memorial Day weekend is the perfect time to get takeout and have a picnic on the beach or even in the living room. Here are a few places we recently wrote about for The Miami Herald's Weekend section: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/14/1626968/get-a-balanced-meal-in...

The choppers hovered over our apartment. Sirens wailed. Police spilled out everywhere. A murderer was on the loose and a 10-year-old boy lay shot to death inside his home across the main road from our apartment. Was it a robber? Was it an accident? It didn't take long for my 13-year-old to figure...

Have a sweet at a school bake sale to benefit the recovery in Haiti.

The event runs all day Saturday at Aventura Mall, first-floor center court.

Proceeds from the Aventura charter school bake sale will go to Food for the Poor.

Come out and say hello.

We try to cook every day, but sometimes we just need a break. So we do the too-easy thing: We head for the drive-through. Bad us. If you need to bring in food, there's life beyond the golden arches (although we're as guilty as they come when we're desperate). The Herald's Weekend section runs a ...

If you feel like you're preparing snacks for a group of kids around the clock, you're not alone. Read this article from The New York Times on how to approach feeding our little snack machines:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/dining/20gusti.html

The self-esteem patrol is going full force this week in our home. One of our girls has new full-time eyeglasses and a pair of dental retainters. The other girl is getting glasses in a few days. While they both know they'll benefit from all of this, having metal in your mouth and glasses on your e...

Does this characterize your household?

A Wall Street Journal columnist neatly summarizes ...

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Baby ain't no genius?

Get a refund!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/educa ... by.html?hp