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Another academic year has begun, and once again we must be mindful of keeping our children safe on their way to and from school, and while they’re there.
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9/6/12
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The Olympic Games in London were inspirational. We witnessed truly breathtaking athletic achievement.
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8/16/12
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The prom is one of the most memorable events in the life of a high school student. For many it’s a once-in-a-lifetime night, planned for months and talked about for years afterward.
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6/7/12
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Have you seen it? The cover of Time magazine last week featured a very attractive 26-year-old mom breast-feeding her 35-year-old son. Actually he’s only 3, but he looks way big.
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5/17/12
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On a recent family vacation I noticed that the only kids who played harder than the little grandkids were the adult “kids.”
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4/19/12
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To the many sports parents who dream of sending their star athletes to college on full athletic scholarships, think again, says Seth Tierney, head men’s lacrosse coach at Hofstra University in Hempstead.
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Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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1/28/12
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center and Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg will present a program about the college athletic recruiting process, “Does Your Child Dream of Playing Sports in College?” The event will take place on Thursday, Jan. 26, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Brookside School, 1260 Meadowbrook Road in North Merrick.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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1/17/12
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They’re called “pharm parties,” short for pharmacy parties. A group of teenagers –– perhaps as young as 12 and 13 years old –– methodically swipe opiate-based pain killers like Oxycontin and Oxycodone from their parents’ and grandparents’ medicine cabinets, dump the pills into a big bowl when no adult is looking and take turns rolling a die. Whatever number comes up, that’s the number of pills a teen must ingest.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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1/12/12
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In days past, parents used to be able to send their children off to school without a second thought about whether they would return safely. And while children are still in good hands during class …
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9/16/11
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Perhaps you’ve seen the recent flood of stories about grown children moving home again. Or maybe you have your very own 35-year-old leaving his laundry on the floor. Apparently kids are landing on their parents’ doorsteps at various stages of adulthood due to bad luck, the bad job market, bad marriages or bad karma.
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6/23/11
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