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Get smart: Water balloon math

Let your kids make a splash—and soak up some number skills with these simple games.<h2>SET IT UP</h2>1. Place skewers within folded lengths of duct tape to make four or five flags. With a permanent marker, write numbers (these will be the solutions to the problems, ...

3 social media apps that stir up drama in schools

If your kid is among the 73 percent of teens who have access to a smartphone, you’re well aware of the app obsession that can take over a brain and body in seconds. Multiply that by the average student population at your middle or high school, and you see the problem many schools are facing ...

Parents @ Play: Winning games for single or two players

Game nights are a great way for family and friends to send time together. But for single-parent, single-child families (or even a one-on-one date night), finding fun games for two players can be a challenge. Single-player games are even harder. This week we take a look at a number of games that ...

App review: Angry Birds 2, less satisfying than original but still smashing fun

Parents need to know that Angry Birds 2 features the same characters, theme and physics-puzzle style as the other games in the franchise, but rather than being a self-contained, paid app, this is both social and freemium (free-to-play but with lots of in-app purchases and pushes to connect to ...

Move it Monday: Start your week right

It’s Monday, a day to get things off to a good start. A day to commit — or recommit — to healthy changes.It’s also Move it Monday, a campaign from the Monday Campaigns, a non-profit public health initiative associated with Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and Syracuse universities that ...