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Allison Ward believes she spends thousands of hours in the car with her children. Ward takes her children to their respective sports during the week, and some of the locations are as far as an hour away from her home. She also embarks on several road trips that take more than a day of driving, [...]

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Texas dreams

I felt like a child on a sugar high as I sat in rush hour traffic on I-635 in Dallas, laughing inside my mini-van and telling my children how great it was to actually experience the Metroplex traffic first hand. They weren’t too impressed, and asked, “Is there a road with fewer cars? Can we [...]

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Top movies for kids and families

When I took my 3-year-old to see ‘Up,” we hardly made it past the previews. I know, it was a bit daring because she’s only 3, but her older sisters really wanted to go and she wanted to be included. Once we’d sat about the length of a “Dora” episode, she was too restless to [...]

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