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6 Ways to Prepare Your Preschooler for Kindergarten

Oct 25, 2015 09:56PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

As many of you know from my previous blog posts, my oldest daughter just started kindergarten.  If you are about my age, and were in elementary school in the 80’s and early 90’s, you probably...

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One Step at a Time

Oct 06, 2015 08:49PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

Since my last post, I've been busy preparing for all things Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Staying busy for this cause is easy because it's the right thing to do, giving back to the community...

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Fancy Nancy

Sep 30, 2015 11:53AM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

#fancynancy For a while I've wanted to write some fan fiction (FF). The fact that I've read very little of it and have no idea of how to write it has slowed me down. But my FF concept was so funny...

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Final Resolve: Value Family

Sep 30, 2015 11:48AM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

For over a decade, I have met you here each month. This has been a place of privilege for me. Sharing the parenting journey with so many of you has been a great joy. As our beloved Fredericksburg...

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Teachers and Parents Give Their Best Back to School Advice

Sep 15, 2015 09:01AM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

As many of you know, my oldest daughter started kindergarten this year!  I can’t believe that I have a child old enough to be in school when it feels like just yesterday that she was a baby, we...

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Pay It Forward

Sep 02, 2015 09:30PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

In late 2013, while living in Massachusetts, when the craze of Thanksgiving and the holidays were all around, my family and I finally made use of a Picture People gift card we received when Anna...

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Losing My Mind While Breaking My Budget

Sep 01, 2015 02:09PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

Did you see me at Target, Walmart or Office Depot back in August on the tax-free back-to-school shopping weekend? Yes, that was yours truly, clutching a Stafford schools shopping list flipping it...

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Morning is Broken

Sep 01, 2015 01:54PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

It's September. Morning dawns. Child No. 1 wakes chirping, humming, shining his way into the new day — a ray of sunshine. Child No. 2 yawns, stretches, easing her way into wakefulness — a quiet...

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Book Learning in a Busy Bistro

Aug 11, 2015 07:16AM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

Do you know what happens when "serious literary discussion" collides with rowdy party-goers? Take it from me, the party rockers win every time. If you can believe it, three of the moms featured in...

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Capture It

Aug 07, 2015 10:34PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

I watched my oldest daughter “A” scurry around her room, smiling and singing, gathering up her school supplies. It was May.  We had just gotten home from visiting the elementary school that my...

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