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How 13-Year Old Girls Can Wipe Out Terrorism

Mitch Ditkoff | Posted 01.16.2013 | Comedy
Read More: Government, Girls, Jihad, Terrorists, Humor, Terrorism, Teens, World Peace, Fatherhood, Parenting, Peace, Teenagers, Parents-Dads, Sleepovers, Torture, Comedy News
Mitch Ditkoff

The girls, wired to the max (sugar and wi-fi), radically pick up the pace of their texting and talking like some kind of futuristic teenage particle accelerator. After five minutes, the prisoners stop smiling. After ten, they become silent. After twenty, they start twitching. A lot.

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10 Truths About Hosting Your Daughter's First Slumber Party

Elizabeth McGuire | Posted 01.02.2013 | Parents
Read More: Girls, Slumber Party, Mothering, 10 Year Old, Daughters, Sleepovers, Tweens, Parenting, Mothers, Parents News
Elizabeth McGuire

If your daughter is old enough for a slumber party, you are experienced enough to know the emotional build-up to any birthday is a tragic, unavoidable reality (Hello, remember your 40th?) and especially brutal when a party warrants you to kick the men out of the house.

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The Mass That Ended Sleepovers As I Knew It

Tom Cramer | Posted 12.14.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Sleepovers, Scolding, Junk Food, Sunday Mass, Wacky-Races, Groovie Goolies, Birthday Parties, Fifty News
Tom Cramer

One of the great things about the middle years of grammar school was the sleepover, usually as part of someone's birthday party. By fourth and fifth grade my friends and I had become more sophisticated. We had outgrown the parties consisting of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the crust cut off, Kool-Aid and pin the tail on the donkey. We no longer required naps either before or after such engagements.

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Untangling Me From My Daughter

Ariane Zurcher | Posted 08.08.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Autistic Children, Mothering, Sleepovers, Autism, Parenting, Mothers and Daughters, Parenting Child With Autism, Life With Autism, Child With Autism, Living With Autism, Autistic Child, Child Autism, Friendship Autism, Expectations Autism, Sleepovers Autism, Healthy Living News
Ariane Zurcher

Emma is without inhibitions. She is without embarrassment. She is without shame. Female neuro-typicals could learn a thing or two from Emma. I could learn a thing or two from Emma.

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Dadophobia: Forbidding Sleepovers When Only Dad Is Home?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 03.31.2012 | Parents
Read More: Sleepovers, Overnighters, Bias Against Fathers, Discrimination, Dadophobia, Pedophiles, Dad Bias, Parents News
Lisa Belkin

You've accepted a sleepover invite for your daughter, not realizing that only her pal's divorced dad will be home. What to do? 

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'90s Sleepover Magic Remembered

TresSugar | Posted 09.04.2011 | Women
Read More: Pretty Pretty Princess, Sleepover Memories, Mall Madness, '90s Sleepover, Dream Phone, Sleepovers, Ask Zandar, Girl Talk, '90s Boardgames, Women News

After all the pizza was finished and the necessary prank calls were made, playing a girly board game was next on the agenda for an ultimate '90s slumb...

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Professional Guidelines For Sleepovers Still Lacking

The New York Times | Perri Klass, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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By Perri Klass, M.D. The New York Times This night away from home, this now iconic childhood activity -- a step toward mock independence and at the s...

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Boy Scouts Of Americas' Portland President Blames Negligent Parents For Sex Abuse

AP | WILLIAM McCALL | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Court, Mormon Church, Boy Scouts, Rape, Cascade Pacific Council, Children, Sleepovers, Kelly Clark, Timur Dykes, Mormons, Boy Scouts of America, Parenting, Boys, Eugene Grant, Portland, Pedophilia, Girls, Lds, Scoutmaster, Sex Abuse, Molestation, Parents, Oregon, Home News

PORTLAND, Ore. — The president of the Boy Scouts council for the Portland metro area has testified he believes the parents of some Scouts were n...

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'In The Neighborhood': After Sleeping At My Neighbor's House, He Became Family (PHOTOS)

Peter Lovenheim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Community, Neighborhoods, Slideshow, In the Neighborhood, Books, Sleepovers, Neighbors, Marriage, Heart Disease, Books News
Peter Lovenheim

That first sleepover was a revelation to me. The intimacy of our conversation and the closeness I came to feel with Lou exceeded my expectations--and I think his, too.

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'In The Neighborhood': Sleepover At The Neighbors' (PHOTOS)

Peter Lovenheim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Authors, Murder, Rochester, Neighborhoods, Books, Sleepovers, Community, Slideshow, Neighbors, In the Neighborhood, Airlines, Books News
Peter Lovenheim

Why is it that in an age of discount airlines, unlimited cell phone minutes, and the Internet, when we can create community anywhere, we often don't know the people who live next door?

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Growing Up With the Secret Service

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Sasha , 24/7 Protection, Scott Alswang, Jenna Bush, Malia, First Kiss, Secret Service, Daughters, Sleepovers, Hand-Holding, Obama, Prom, Barbara Bush, Style News
Diane Dimond

What if the two Obama daughters want to go on a typical sleepover at a friend's house? You guessed it. The Secret Service will go too.

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