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1. Is Your Baby on Track?
   

   There's more to tracking your baby's development than logging height and weight. There are a number of other childhood milestones to keep watch for. Pediatrician Michelle Bailey, MD, medical director of Duke Health Center at Southpoint, says you can look for signs of emerging motor and language skil

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2. Kelly Ripa’s Mom Survival Strategies
   

   For the woman who once famously said, “I think children are like pancakes: You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around,” Kelly Ripa’s kid-smarts come through first-hand experience, now that her third child, Joaquin, is 4. (Michael is 10 and Lola is 7.) That’s a wh

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3. 10 Secrets of Great Moms
   

   By Lindsey Palmer REDBOOK knows that moms know. So the life-tested parenting advice here comes straight from the mouths of the experts — you! “Enlist everyone you can to help you. Just because you’re a mother, that doesn’t mean you have to be Wonder Woman. When my daughter was born, I called my sist

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4. Kelly Ripa's Take on Mothering
   

   Every day is Mother's Day for fans of Live With Regis and Kelly. That's because Kelly Ripa -- the prettier and perkier half of the popular morning talk show -- regularly amuses her audience with hilarious tales of pregnancy, parenthood, and, yes, the occasional poop story. This is a woman who once f

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5. Why Kids Whine and How To Stop Them
   

   San Francisco mom Anne Crawford has three children, aged 8 through 13, so she has heard her share of whining over the years. “My kids whine about doing the chores, or about how unfair it is that one got something and the other didn’t,” says Crawford, 42, a freelance researcher. “I’d say whining pret

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6. Kids' Allowances: Expert-Approved Real-World Approaches
   

   By Elaine Pofeldt More and more parents are asking kids to earn their allowances. Here, three families share their systems — and the lessons they teach. All Lori Mackey wanted to do was inspire her two children to get ready for school on time. But no amount of cajoling or prodding worked. One day, o

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7. Talking to Teen Girls About Sex
   

   My mom called me into her room for “the talk” when I was 12 or 13. As I recall it now, 25 years later, the conversation seemed more focused on fallopian tubes, ovaries, and the mechanics of reproduction (which I already knew about) than on the real issues in my head: cute boys, love, feeling good. M

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8. The Hidden Epidemic of Very Young Alcoholics
   

   By Heather Millar The stats disguise a startling truth: Kids are starting to drink at the age of 11, 10, even 9. This is how it's happening - and how three young drinkers finally stopped. Mary Brennan was only 10 years old when she downed her first vodka screwdriver. Her dad, who runs a dental-equip

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9. How to Say No (Without Saying No)
   

   By Barbara Aria "No." Kids hate to hear it, and you hate to say it — but how else can you keep them safe and well-behaved? Try one of these smart alternatives to just saying no. The average toddler hears the word no an astonishing 400 times a day, according to experts. That's not only tiresome for y

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10. Buying Safe Toys for the Holidays
    

    At a time when children are compiling their holiday wish lists, parents are fretting over another one: the safe toy list. Barbie.  Batman.  Dora.  Razor Scooters.  Thomas the Tank Engine.  All top contenders for space under the Christmas tree -- until they hit the toy recall list for safety violatio

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