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• It's (really) the end of the world as we know it

  No more peanut butter-and-jelly on bread that sticks to the roof of our mouths. No more turning pages (we'll need to swipe them instead). Forget the Mayan calendar. We saw some real endings in 2012. In the book of life, the year was a major transition chapter. What we [...]
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• Should kids at tragedies be interviewed?

  Within hours of the Sandy Hook Elementary attack that left 28 dead in Newtown, Conn., last week, social media unleashed a backlash against journalists for interviewing young children from the school. Some of the harshest critics came from within the media’s own ranks. Time TV critic James Poniewozik blogged [...]
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• 2012 moms who made us feel good about ourselves

  Remembers these moms? We are often our own harshest critics, but these mothers made even our worst mom moments seem like award winners. Patricia Krentcil – Better known as “ Tanning Mom ,” the New Jersey mom became toast overnight after being arrested for allegedly putting her 5-year-old daughter [...]
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• Cargo pants, tattoos & other threats to society

  When my oldest daughter started middle school, we stocked up during back-to-school shopping on cargo pants. They were cool at the time, comfortable and seemed perfectly suitable with her school uniform top. But in the first week of school the principal decided suddenly that cargo pants were unacceptable attire. [...]
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