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What Your Family Can Do To Help The Environment

Posted 05.17.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Last week, the earth hit an environmental milestone that has climat...

How Safe Are The Products Your Family Uses Every Day?

Posted 05.10.2013 | Parents

Heavy metals might not be something you’d generally associate with makeup -- but a recent study from the University of California Berkeley's School ...

The Cicadas Are Coming -- Has Your Family Spotted Any?

Posted 05.03.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Over the next few weeks, East Coasters are going to get some very l...

How To Begin The 'What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?' Conversation

Posted 04.26.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: This week is the perfect time to think about what you want to be wh...

What Can We Learn From Female Leaders?

Posted 04.12.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: This week, the world lost of one of its most notable leaders when M...

How To Celebrate Poetry Month With Your Kids

Posted 04.05.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: In 1996, the Academy of American Poets founded National Poetry Mont...

What Your Kids Should Know About The Newest National Monuments

Posted 03.29.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Over 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt made Devils Tower ...

Who Decides What Kids Can Read In School?

Posted 03.22.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic novel, Persepolis, is her mem...

How Teens' Internet Use Is Changing

Posted 03.15.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: If it seems like smartphones have changed the way we interact with ...

Celebrating Women's History Month

Posted 03.08.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: March is Women’s History Month. The National Women's History Proj...

Celebrating Read Across America Day

Posted 03.01.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Today, March 1, is the National Education Association’s 16th Annu...

15 Tips To Eat Dinner With Toddlers Without Losing Your Mind

Charity Curley Mathews | Posted 05.01.2013 | Parents
Charity Curley Mathews

It's such a dream, the Family Dinner. From the moment I saw my first ultrasound, I could see it so clearly. A happy family sits around a table, passing heaped platters of colorful food.

Talking About Achievement, Movie Magic And The Oscars

Posted 02.22.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: You might think anyone who’s made it into a major movie – as an...

Table Talk: Explaining The Pope's Resignation To Kids

Posted 02.15.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: This week, a surprising announcement came from the Vatican: Pope Be...

How Would The End of Saturday Mail Delivery Affect Your Family?

Posted 02.08.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: It might sound crazy to you that mail was once delivered twice a da...

How One Teenager Is Making A Difference

Posted 02.01.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Sarah Kavanagh, a Mississippi 15-year-old, was surprised by what sh...

Getting Ready For Black History Month

Posted 01.25.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Every February, we observe Black History Month to honor the achieve...

Watching The Inauguration With Your Kids

Posted 01.18.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: This Monday, Barack Obama will officially begin his second term as ...

This Teen Is The Opposite Of A Bully

Posted 01.11.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Jeremiah Anthony, a 17-year-old high school junior from Iowa City, ...

3 Questions About How Your Family Uses Libraries

Posted 01.04.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: There are approximately 121,785 libraries in the United States. Bu...

How To Make New Year's Resolutions As A Family

Posted 12.28.2012 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Next week, it will be 2013. And while it may seem like the world ar...

Teaching Respect For Others' Holiday Traditions

Posted 12.21.2012 | Parents

Hanukkah is already over, and there are only three days left until Christmas -- so chances are you've been hearing a lot about people's holiday plans ...

Explaining The Royal Family To Kids

Posted 12.07.2012 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: There was big news from the UK this week: Kate Middleton, the wife ...

Talking To Your Family About Screen Time

Posted 11.30.2012 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Not so long ago, we lived in a world of very few screens. Yes, home...

Do Your Kids Understand The Voting Process?

Posted 11.09.2012 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Election Day takes place in the U.S. every November, but this past ...