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This Week in the World of Parenting

• Nancy Shute at U.S. News & World Report did an interesting blog posting on a few ways to ensure your breastfed baby is getting the (newly defined) proper vitamin D in their diet [*that would be the breast milk diet], including supplements for newborns as well as kids and teenagers, fortified milk, cod liver oil and she forgot to mention broccoli which is high in vitamin D.
• I stumbled across a wonderful post by Starr King Elementary School in the San Fransisco area describing “Five Easy Ways to Earn Money for Your School.” Great ideas that I am going to being sharing at the next P.T.A. meeting.
  
• The fine folks at the San Fransisco Gate posted an article this week aptly titled, “Hey Kids, Go Outside and Play” This article describes the pitfalls of kids spending too much time indoors. Good stuff.
• Also, over at Datamation, writer Mike Elgan posits some interesting thoughts on how social networking websites (using Facebook as the prime example) are endangering the commonly head concept of the nuclear family in his article, “How Facebook Is Destroying the ‘Nuclear Family’“. I will leave it up to you whether that is a good thing or bad.
• And with Halloween quickly approaching I have been sifting through the sands of the web for that prefect low maintenance solution. Over at Associated Content I found an interesting list of “Single Dad and Son Halloween Costumes Ideas.“ My favorite is definitely – The Man with the Yellow Hat and Curious George.