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Listen to Round 3 Encore: Letting Kids Watch Scary Stuff from October 28, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 3 Encore: Letting Kids Watch Scary Stuff

[This is an encore presentation of a Parenting Roundabout episode originally released on June 24, 2015. If you listened to it the first time, this is your second chance to follow up on all the...

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Listen to Round 2: Dancing With the Stars and Award-Show Hosts from October 27, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 2: Dancing With the Stars and Award-Show...

It was Halloween theme night on as well as team-dance night, which provided lots of opportunities for the costume, hair, and makeup folks to show off. (Or not: in the group dance? for his couples...

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Listen to Episode 91: You've Had Your Turn, You Need to Sit Down! from October 23, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Episode 91: You've Had Your Turn, You Need to...

Parents who think their children's activities give them a second time around for childhood too are getting us hot under the collar this week. Nicole is particularly steamed at parents who turn a...

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Listen to Round 3: Fitting in Fitness from October 21, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 3: Fitting in Fitness

Susan Adcox, who writes about , joins us on the third Wednesday of every month to chat with Catherine about grandparenting issues. This time, they spoke about as well as some interesting recent news...

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Listen to Round 2: Famous Dances and Popular Shows from October 20 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 2: Famous Dances and Popular Shows

Famous dances of some sort or another were the focus of this week's and Catherine and Terri found both the dances and the judging to have no particular rhyme or reason. They chatted about the dances...

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Listen to Episode 90: Revisiting Screen Time and Visiting Book Characters from October 16, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Episode 90: Revisiting Screen Time and Visiting...

Screen content is usually the domain of our R, but for this week's group chat we wanted to revisit the question of screen time for kids in the context of a recent announcement from the American...

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Our "Lost" watch continues with S6 E8, "Recon," in which we learn that even terrifying smoke monsters can have bad-parent stories. Listen at toooldforcool.substack.com/p…
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Listen to Round 4: Sports Superstitions and Rituals from October 15, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 4: Sports Superstitions and Rituals

The Insufficient Ice Incident of September 2015 prompted Catherine to take a closer look at . So in this week’s Round 4, she and Charlie Zegers discussed the difference between superstitions and...

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Listen to Round 3 Encore: Birthday Parties Are a Big Deal from October 14, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 3 Encore: Birthday Parties Are a Big Deal

[This is an encore presentation of a Parenting Roundabout episode originally released on May 13, 2015. If you listened to it the first time, this is your second chance to follow up on all the...

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Listen to Round 2: Dancing With the Grandfathers and Grinders from October 13, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 2: Dancing With the Grandfathers and...

It was switch-up night on , and also "Judges say what?" night, because the scoring was all the heck over the place. We talked about the dances we liked, the conspiracies we wondered about, and the...

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Listen to Episode 89: Halloween and Other Things We Love/Hate About Fall from October 9, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Episode 89: Halloween and Other Things We...

It's October, which brings a lot of change in the parenting world. Along with the seasons changing, and the settling in to the school year, we have Halloween anticipation ... or dread, as the case...

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Listen to Round 3: Homework Help from an OT from October 7, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 3: Homework Help from an OT

Each month Meghan Corridan, a pediatric occupational therapist, joins Catherine to share some of what she’s learned from her clients and her own 5-year-old daughter. Now that her daughter is in...

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Listen to Round 2: Dancing With the Stars and Legos from October 6, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 2: Dancing With the Stars and Legos

It's the most thematically uncomfortable of the season: the dreaded Most Memorable Year episode, where celebs are asked to honor the death of a loved one with a cha cha. The mix of real-life hardship...

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Listen to Episode 88: Children's Books We've Loved and Loathed from October 2, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Episode 88: Children's Books We've Loved and...

What's your very favorite children's book? The one you read to your kid until it disintegrated? The one that got your child hooked on reading? The one you dug way more than your kid? We compared...

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Listen to Round 4: The Unforeseeable Future from October 1, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 4: The Unforeseeable Future

As a parent of a child with , you'd like to think that the will be some sort of triumphant finish line to all the advocating and planning and worrying and . Sadly, although the IEP meetings end, the...

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Listen to Round 3: Maker Faire and Making Things with Your Kids from September 30, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 3: Maker Faire and Making Things with...

Maker Faires are springing up all over, in a or a near you, and we asked Kathy Ceceri, author of and the upcoming , about what these events are all about and how you can bring some cool DIY tech into...

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Listen to Round 2: Dancing With the 100-Year-Old Man from September 29, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 2: Dancing With the 100-Year-Old Man

Football pre-empting ABC's schedule foiled Catherine's efforts to watch this week, and if you had to pick an episode to be pre-empted in your viewing area, this would be the one. Terri gave a recap...

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Listen to Episode 87: Parent Hacks and Hissy Fits from September 25, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Episode 87: Parent Hacks and Hissy Fits

Our group chat started off on a positive note as we shared those clever tricks we've developed over the years to solve various organizational and parenting problems. We gave ourselves pats on the...

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Listen to Round 4: Complicated Kids and Public Perceptions from September 24, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 4: Complicated Kids and Public Perceptions

For this week's Round 4, Amanda chatted with her husband, Jon, our audio engineer and blogger at , to talk about the ... educational challenge of taking children with special needs out in public. Do...

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Listen to Round 3: Close, But Not Too Close from September 23, 2015. #FarewellTour parentingroundabout.libsyn.c…

Parenting Roundabout: Round 3: Close, But Not Too Close

Susan Adcox, who writes about , joins us on the third Wednesday of every month to chat with Catherine about grandparenting issues. This time, they talk about family closeness: what grandparents and...

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