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Home Air Quality: Are Americans Suffocating Themselves?
From apartment buildings towering over crowded urban streets to sprawling, tree-lined colonials situated on open rural roads, the most lovingly tended, pristine home can be harboring enough air-borne...
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Dealing With Mental Illness In Our Homes, An Expert Weighs In
Despite great strides in treatment for individuals suffering with mental illness, the myths and stigma concerning diagnoses such as bipolar disorder, depression and other disorders such as...
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Gun Safety: Tips For Safely Keeping A Gun In Your Home
Over a third of American households currently contain at least one working firearm. With so many homes containing weapons, gun-related accidents make all-too familiar tragic headlines, compounded by...
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Genetically Modified Foods: Why One Expert Wants Them Out Of Your Kitchen
You most likely ate a genetically modified food today and didn’t know it. Once the stuff of science fiction, food genetically manipulated in the laboratory, has become more commonplace than people...
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8 Easy DIY Projects to Ready Your Home for Fall
Fall is the season of change––the leaves change, the temperature cools, and with the proper planning, you too can be prepared for the autumn season. Whether weatherproofing in preparation for winter...
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Bike Sharing Programs Transforming Commutes Coast To Coast
A new breed of public transportation, bike sharing programs are transforming the commutes of thousands of people from coast to coast. Typically fueled by annual membership or rental fees, bike share...
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Vegetable Plots Behind Our Homes, In Our Communities
Even in the densest cities, a walk down a crowded, urban street might yield a surprising glimpse of lush, enclosed greenery. Community gardens and front-lawn vegetable patches have become more...
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Nursing Furry Friends Through The Recession: The High Cost Of Pet Care
Animal people get it. Your pet is part of your family and owns an unconditional piece of your heart, forever and always. No matter how much your pet pulls at your heartstrings, however, a thousand...
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Secrets Of Adoption: What To Know Before You Adopt A Child Home
Once upon a time, families always matched. A walk down the street would yield the sight of husbands and wives hand in hand with their children, whose hair and eye color mimicked their own. If any of...
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Lean In Or Lean Out: America’s Pregnant Workers Decide
Despite individual preference to either lean in or out, America’s pregnant workers are all at a disadvantage when it comes to family leave time after bringing baby home, particularly when compared with...
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From Your Kitchen: Best Packed Lunches for Kids
It’s 7 a.m., the school bus will be there in 15 minutes and suddenly, a thought blasts to the front of your pre-caffeinated brain – you haven’t made your child’s school lunch yet. Before you reach for...
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Creating An Atmosphere For Studying
Children thrive on routine. As the school year begins and the easy days of summer fade into a distant memory, routines help to ease this transition by creating a sense of stability, comfort and purpose...
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How To Make The Most Of Back To School Night
From kindergarten through high school, kids benefit from parental involvement in their schooling. While the appropriate amount of hands-on interaction needed will vary from child to child and grade to...
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Back To Work: Preparing Family For Your Return To The Office
Most people, especially children, thrive on routine. If you or your spouse are planning a full-time return to the workforce, your family may feel a sense of upheaval and uneasiness about this change,...
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What To Eat (And Cut) For A Healthier Planet
It’s lunchtime and hunger is calling. Your goal, of course, is to simply fill your grumbling tummy and get back to work within an hour and, if you’re like most people in a hurry, you’re not thinking...
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Using Technology In The Home To Improve Education
As with all good things, technology can be used effectively, or misused inappropriately. This is especially true for kids, who seemingly grow up with a smart phone surgically attached to their hands....
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Is Hosting An Exchange Student Right For Your Family?
Young men and women the world over strive to come to the United States as exchange students to study and learn about our culture. Paving the way for these world leaders of tomorrow are host families,...
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What To Consider Before Leaving The Workforce
Life has a way of happening, whether you’re spending yours building a meaningful career or simply earning a less-than-meaningful paycheck. People meet and fall in love, I dos are said and leases are...
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Caring For The Elderly: Does China Have It Right?
Some of them banned the bra and boogied down at Woodstock. Others still tout the “Madmen” generation as their own. America’s older population is living longer and due to escalating numbers, becoming a...
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The Pros & Cons Of Working From Home
According to a study done by Stanford University, 10 percent of the American workforce currently telecommutes at least one day a week. While some fields have traditionally eschewed the...
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