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April2017
Volume 22 Number 4
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Columns 6 Editor’s Note DeAnne Watson
8 Living With Children John Rosemond
Power Down the Parent Pressure
How and why you should stop micro-managing your kids’ goals.
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An Insider’s Guide to Choosing Child Care
8 things to consider when deciding where to place your child.
12 Kids Health Watch sponsored by Professional Pediatrics
14 Montgomery Education Matters by Superintendent Margaret Allen
42 Autauga Education Matters
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by Superintendent Spence Agee
48 Elmore Education Matters by Superintendent Richard Dennis
58 Parenting Today’s Teens Mark Gregston
64 Growing Up Online Carolyn Jabs
2017 Child Care Guide 10 Survival Tips for Our comprehensive listing of Single Parents River Region daycares, preschools, and MMO programs.
Plan ahead, resolve guilt, make time for yourself, and more ideas.
On The Cover Sadie Lee Myers, age 3, attends preschool at Frazer Memorial Christian Kindergarten and Preschool. Her teacher is Jennifer Williamson. Sadie’s proud parents are Chris and Jene Meyers, and she has a sister, Kylee (9), and a brother, Cason (8). Sadie enjoys gymnastics, soccer, swimming, reading books and playing outside.
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76 Get This! Gerry Paige Smith
88 A Page in a Book Gerry Paige Smith
Departments 10 Bits and Pieces 16 School Bits 80 Calendar/Support Groups 92 Movie Reviews
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