The Parents Zone

To quit smoking you need to have exceptional will power and discipline. It is certainly one of the hardest addiction to get rid off. There are more than 1 billion smokers and it is definitely a world wide epidemic. Many smokers have tried to quit cold turkey but the urge to smoke is difficult to resist especially when the smoker has been smoking heavily for a very long period time. If you have also failed in quitting cold turkey, try replacing the habit with healthy smoking alternatives.

For some smokers, the habit is more about the action of bringing the cigarette to their lips and the need to feel them. Read full post…

Sometimes a beauty gadget gets created that is just so great, you dont know how you lived without it. is one of those gadgets. The Beachwaver is a curling iron that gives you gorgeous beachy-waves- the kind all the A-listers do- and takes the guess work out of which way to turn the iron to get the perfect curl (sometimes looking in the mirror, I get confused on which way to rotate the iron).

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Doctors at Yale University have successfully implanted a biodegradablescaffold seeded with a four-year-old girls own bone-marrowcells to help treat a serious heart defect, as WSJs Heartbeat column describes.

The tube about three inches long is made of polyester material similar to that used in the manufacture of dissolvable sutures.

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The thought of asking a classroom full of second-graders to sit still, breathe deeply and be aware of their feelings may sound like a near impossible feat, but at Miami Country Day School children are doing just that.

Lets bloom like a flower, Hope Stern beseeched her 7- and 8-year-olds standing in a cluster in the middle of the classroom. Clad in red-and-blue school uniforms, the 15 or so boys and girls slowly stretched their arms up and out as they watched a video guiding them on meditation. On the wall behind them, geometric-shaped, hand-colored paper mandalas representing the universe in the Buddhist faith were pinned up on a bulletin board.

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