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• 10 Questions: Melissa Joan Hart
  Actor and director Melissa Joan Hart, a showbiz veteran since age three, talks with Modern Mom about how putting her family first is now her number one priority – and how she’s prepping for the any-day-now arrival of Baby #2!

• Sweethearts in Training: Teach Your Child About Love Through Example
  Teach your children that Valentine’s Day is about more than flowers and candy in heart-shaped boxes. It’s about showing each other love every day of the year.

• Sports Team Burnout: When It’s Time to Cut Back on the Lessons and Leagues
  Be it soccer or swimming, tennis or baseball, year 'round training or participation on too many teams can lead to burnout.

• 10 Questions: Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
  It's hard not to admire Bridgette Wilson. A successful actor, advocate for Mother's Against Drunk Driving, and wife of a superstar athlete, she's also a fully involved parent and her sons' co-op preschool.

• GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR ONLY CHILDREN: How Pressure to be Perfect Can Backfire
  Families are getting smaller, and have been since the early 1960s, giving parents more time to devote to each child. As a result, parents today all seem to be pushing for "star" progeny.

• 10 Questions: Lisa Rinna
  Celebrating 10 years of marriage to Harry Hamlin, a revived career, and a close-knit relationship with her daughters, Lisa Rinna, 44, chats with Modern Mom about scheduling a weekly family date & dancing up a storm.

• Why Homeschool?
  I had always looked forward to the day when my children would finally enter school. During those early years, when mothering feels like such a full-time job, I would assure myself that I'd have a glimpse of my old life back when my son

• Mommy, Why Cant I Have Blond Hair and Blue Eyes?
  With Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day approaching, we'd like to share the writings of author Mallika Chopra. In this article, Mallika talks to her young daughters about race and class.

• Strategies to Make Anytime With Your Child Quality Time
  Working and raising children is the great balancing act that an increasing number of us perform. Don't feel guilty about working outside the home, instead enjoy and make the most of the time you do spend with their children.

• Why Is My Daughter Friends with THAT Kid?
  Etiquette expert Melissa Leonard offers her advice on how to handle a situation where you don't approve of your child's friends.

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