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How to talk to your kids about 9/11
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I don't know how I would talk to my child about 9/11. I'm currently not a parent, and I secretly fear days like the one on which I'm asked to explain what happened on that stark September day.
If I am to be a parent, my child will be told years from now what happened. Sept. 11, 2001 will be a past event, written into dog-eared school history books with American flags on the cover.
But 9/11 - as all significant American moments - remains seared in my experience and shaded by what followed.
How would I - but more importantly, how should I - how should we - tell our children about what happened?
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Nationwide bike ride honors dad who died on 9/11
Cecelia Kauth on her ride across the U.S.
(Credit: Cecelia Kauth)Special section: 9/11 10 years later
Today, Kauth is 25 and working hard to finish a long, cross-country bicycle ride in her father's honor. Kauth embarked in June from her home in Portland, Ore., and is hoping to finish her ride on Sept. 10, in New York City, in time to attend 10th anniversary memorial services with her family on September 11.
Continue »Do-it-yourself safety for back-to-school driving
A woman checks her car's tire pressure.
(Credit: Cooper Tire)Safety on the road seems like a no-brainer, but considering how much parents drive -- especially when school rolls around -- now might be just the right time to check out your vehicle.
Dad comes clean about "miserably hard work" of parenting
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One father, Allen Greenblatt, has just said what may be on your mind right now about raising kids: It's "not all lavender and honey."
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Visiting America's endangered historic sites
A view of the Greater Chaco Landscape in New Mexico.
(Credit: National Trust for Historic Preservation/Jonathan Poston)Though not every site on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places is open to the public, there are a few gems you and your family may want to check out. From historic Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, Ala., to the Greater Chaco landscape in New Mexico, the sites are rich with history - and scattered across the country.
Pictures: America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places
Check out our gallery of the sites to see if you have some endangered history nearby.
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Public school student performance by state
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest national continuing assessment of what America's public school students know and how they can do in various subject areas. Assessments are conducted periodically in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history.
"Eye on Parenting" recently put together a ranking of each state's scores -- and Washington, D.C.'s, based on average NAEP results in reading and mathematics for fourth grade. The scores were taken from the 2009 NAEP, the most recent year for which the numbers are available.
Find out where public school kids in your state stand in our "Best Performing Public School Students by State" gallery.
Kid fall fashions for less than $100
A model wears an outfit for the 2011 back-to-school season.
(Credit: CBS)Looking for great back-to-school clothes you - and your kids - will love? Check out lifestyle expert Tara Vera's wardrobe choices for less than $100 in our "Eye on Parenting" back-to-school fashion show.
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Click on the video below to check out the chic looks she put together for school-aged kids.
Kidnapping survivor talks child safety tactics
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Imagining them out of your sight for the first time -- or again after a summer at your side -- can be scary, indeed.
However, you can prepare your kids for the larger world by teaching them what kind of behavior is safe and OK -- and what is not. "Eye on Parenting" recently sat down with child safety advocate George Molho to discuss ways parents can equip their kids for dealing with threatening situations.
Molho is the author of "Scarred," a memoir about his abduction by his father when he was 7 and yearlong torture before he escaped. Molho says he wants to teach parents how to teach their kids to be survivors.
So seize the back-to-school moment. Click on the video below. You might be surprised by what you didn't know. We were.
Families of triplets, quads convene
The 5-year-old Bockey triplets, from left to right, Zane, Luke, and Andrew, from Lima, Ohio, dress like the 'three little pigs' during the Triplets Connection Convention parade and picnic at Valley Forge National Historical Park, on Saturday, July 30, 2011, in Valley Forge, Pa.
(Credit: AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)Three dirty diapers, five runny noses, six crying kids.
Families with multiple births face a unique set of challenges every day that many parents cannot imagine taking on.
Parenting triplets, quadruplets and higher multiples was the subject of a recent convention in suburban Philadelphia.
The event, called "Let Threedom Ring," was held in King of Prussia, Pa., by Triplet Connection, an information website for multiple birth families.
Pictures: Triplets: Growing up in a set
At the event, the triplets, quadruplets and higher-order multiples ranged from babies and younger children to teenagers and college-age young adults.
Workshops were held to help adults with parenting issues, while the kids took part in entertainment and social activities.
N.Y. stroller mom banned from grocery store
People shop at a Brooklyn Fairway grocery store on Aug. 14, 2008, in New York.
(Credit: Getty)(CBS) A New York mother was recently kicked out of a popular supermarket on the city's Upper East Side after she failed to pay for a half-gallon of milk and other beverages she says she accidentally left in her stroller.
Elissa Drassinower, 33, told the New York Post, "The security guard took my photograph, told me I was banned from Fairway for life and said I was lucky she didn't call the police. I was crying, my 20-month-old son was crying. It was humiliating."
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