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Know How: How to Fake Being Sick
Parents be warned: Your kids have savvy tricks to avoid going to school.
Beating the Back-to-School Blues
Right now I’m struggling with the back-to-school blues. Happens every year. With my kids, sure, but also with me. In mid-August that feeling of depression hits—summer is over, time for life to become regimented again, with homework and tests and science projects and packed lunches and so on. Bleh. It’s pretty much the worst time of year in kid-dom, and I feel their pain.
Trapper Keeper: The First iPad
The price was already at $22 when I put in my bid, an ambitious $35. Factor in the $8.50 for shipping and this could be a pretty expensive, rather pointless purchase. But there was something driving me. An unknown force of a long-forgotten youth. I had to have this Trapper Keeper; it had to be so from the moment I saw the grainy pictures on eBay. It was classic. Computer-generated designs on the cover, the kind of design that screamed opening title sequence from "Saved By the Bell." It came with a couple of folders and was listed as in 'near-perfect' condition. Near-perfect? The fact that this thing existed at all was perfection incarnate.
10 College Dorm Supplies You Might Forget
Ten college dorm supplies you might easily forget when your new scholar is matriculating.




