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As parents we are responsible for teaching our children lots of things. But what are the most important things we need to teach them?

Summer is almost over, and it has been a busy few months for the local firefighters! Now they want your help as they do their annual Fill The Boot for MDA. On Friday August 7th from 10am to 6pm make sure you stop by (or drive by) the Addison/Locust intersection with your spare change and dollars.

It's times like these that I wish I had a parenting book. It's the end of summer break, my kids are tired from all their summer activities and I am running out of things to keep them busy.

Most parents don't mean to embarrass their kids but, it is guaranteed to happen at one point or another.

I will be the first to admit that before I had children I swore I wasn't going to bribe them. Then I started potty training and out came the candy. By the time my kids started school I was bribing them, or as I like to call it...rewarding them, with toys.

Helping a child at a park just seems like the right thing to do, right? Apparently, this isn't always the case. Last month, my family and I were at a park in Washington. A little boy approached me and asked me to lift him onto a swing.

We all post pictures of our kids on Instagram or on Facebook. It's our way of keeping our out-of-town friends and family caught up on what our kids are doing. But, have you ever wondered if these pictures will embarrass your kids later on in life?

I get that as parents our job is to take care of our kids. We have to make sure they are safe and healthy all the time...but at what point (if any) do we need to release the reigns and stop keeping track of them.

You love ‘Frozen’, but you've already seen the movie and listened to the soundtrack an infinite amount of times. What to do? Well, just keep counting down the days until March 13, when an all-new ‘Frozen’ adventure—‘Frozen Fever’—opens in theaters with Disney's ‘Cinderella’.

We already knew Aaron Rodgers was a good guy. This just further proved it.

When you were a kid, did your dad ever BLOW YOUR MIND with magic?

Just because a toys packaging says it's age appropriate, doesn't mean that it is.