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• Money Can Buy Happiness -- Sometimes March 8, 2010
  If you're thinking about putting off that family vacation to buy a new flat screen, you might want to reconsider your priorities. What you choose to spend your money on can affect how happy you are in the long run, says a new study from Cornell University. Spending your money on things like vacations and massages -- or in other words, things that you ex […]
• Fewer Kids are Being Bullied March 8, 2010
  The number of kids who are being bullied is going down, says a new study from the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center. Researchers conducted two surveys of children between the ages of 2 to 17. The first survey, of 2,030 children, was conducted in 2003. The second, which examined 4,046 children, was conducted in 2008. C […]
• Does Your Grade-Schooler Eat Snacks? March 7, 2010
  My third grader generally loves snacks. I say "generally" because he sometimes goes through periods when he scarfs down snacks like a linebacker and then just as suddenly goes through phases when he decides that he doesn't feel like having anything before dinner. His fluctuating appetite used to worry me when he was younger and I was a new mom […]
• Thrifty Thursdays: Got Any Spare Change? March 4, 2010
  What do you do with your spare change? I've made a habit of gathering up my change and putting it straight into my son's piggy bank. This, in addition to his allowance for doing chores around the house, has added up to hundreds of dollars a year for my little boy. Not bad for someone who's not even 9 yet. When the piggy bank gets full, we empt […]
• Wash Your Bagged Salad March 1, 2010
  Do you buy pre-packaged salad greens? If so, you may want to read this recent report from Consumer Reports, which found that some of those so-called "pre-washed" bagged salads contained bacteria that are common indicators of poor sanitation and -- ugh -- fecal contamination. The level of bacteria varied from bag to bag, even within the same brands; […]