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What is the best snack for soccer teams?

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Last year, my daughter's soccer club participated in a research study conducted by Jennifer Sacheck at Tufts University in Boston to examine the effects of three different pre-exercise snacks on exercise intensity, fatigue, blood sugar and stress levels in children playing an indoor soccer match. The results indicated that "pre-game snacks ...

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Summer Camp ‘Kid-Sick’ Parents Struggle to Let Go

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

TownConnect member Janet emailed us a news story about summer camps and parent having trouble letting go. "These days, camp leaders and family counselors say it's an increasingly common dynamic. It used to be the homesick kid begging to come home from camp. While that still happens, they've noticed that it's ...

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Moms: Best of the Web

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Helping connect families and moms we get the chance to meet and correspond with movers and shakers in the Mom blog movement. While there are a lot of blogs discussing the amount of milk in a morning latte we found some excellent sites offering time-saving, useful tips and ...

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