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Is School Causing Stress?

May 29, 2015 11:07AM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

I have been working this year with Riverbend High School Senior Abigail Williams on her Commonwealth Governor’s School Culminating Project. The focus of this project is working through...

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How to Combat Procrastination

May 12, 2015 10:38PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

I have been working this year with Riverbend High School Senior Abigail Williams on her Commonwealth Governor’s School Culminating Project. The focus of this project is working through...

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The Summer Camp Sprint

Apr 27, 2015 11:56AM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

Have you done it yet? Conducted the research, braved the lines and paid the fees? Yes, fellow parents, summer is almost here and that means that it is high time that you start planning some fun...

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Casting Off the Cape

Apr 27, 2015 11:39AM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

Why is it that we humans hold a superhuman standard for ourselves? Every human will confirm "... no one is perfect." We have flaws. We make mistakes. Perfection is unattainable! Yet, somehow, we...

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Dream Seeds

Apr 01, 2015 03:44PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

Ask any farmer or gardener—it is planting season: fields are plowed, soil prepared and seeds dropped. If any of these components are missing, there will be no harvest come fall. I would like to...

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Mother (Doesn't Always) Know Best

Apr 01, 2015 03:35PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

Entering the middle school auditorium to attend my daughter's first band concert, I felt dread. The bleats and honks coming from Laura's clarinet recently had not been encouraging. I was sure the...

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Taste the Real Rainbow

Apr 01, 2015 03:31PM ● By Dr. Nimali Fernando

by Nimali Fernando, a.k.a. Doctor YumEncourage kids to eat a rainbow every day! When it comes to food, presentation is everything. You can make kids' plates more exciting by offering bites of food...

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The Top 3 Things not to Say or Do to a Pregnant Person While they are Trying to do their Grocery Shopping

Mar 17, 2015 02:34PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color="" text_color=""]A[/fusion_dropcap]s some of you know, we are expecting a baby, our second, in April.  I am in the third trimester,...

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That Brazen Hussy

Feb 24, 2015 04:56PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

There are plenty of stories and essays about breast feeding. After a several years of holding back, I've decided it's my turn. I've resisted this topic for so long because I thought I had nothing...

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Frozen Phenomenon

Feb 24, 2015 04:40PM ● By Fredericksburg Parent Staff

This may not be the month to build a snowman, but I bet you know the song - "Do You Want To Build a Snowman?" Is there a parent alive that hasn't? Perhaps there are few "off-grid" somewhere in the...

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