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Real Love & Real Life (Family Honor)
Family Honor program for parents to attend with their 8th grade (or mature 7th grade) son or daughter...
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Do You Know Where Your Kids are…on the Internet?
Keep your kids safe online by teaching them the seven stop signs...
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Pinecrest Academy Offers Year-Round Family Life Programs
These programs, designed to support the family unit and enhance family life, are open to all.  The fall schedule includes workshops such as Boundaries in Marriage, MomSense, Band of Brothers, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters and more... 
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Pinecrest Students Achieve 100% Pass Rate in Five AP Course Categories
Overall, 13% of Pinecrest students had a perfect score, 35% had a score of four, and 35% had a score of three. Many colleges in the U. S will grant exemptions for and award semester hours to students for each AP course passed in high school...
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Laura on Life
Laura writes a letter to a stranger about their son and how they are raising him. She writes on the small things that can turn into bigger things when raising children...
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Laura on Life
In this hilarious account of her family matters Laura writes on the never ending struggle of her daughter trying to keep her little brother out of her room...
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Laura on Life
Laura writes on a trip to a home improvement trip with her husband. She was glad he went at first, then later realized he was not the man for the job. How does she tell him with hurting his psyche...
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Laura on Life
Laura writes on the everyday heart stopping thrills and scares she used to get from roller coasters and horror movies but now have been replaced by her children...
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Surviving the Holidays Without a Loved One
Ingram's Funeral Home offers healing help and advice for getting through the holidays after the loss of a loved one...
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Laura on Life
Laura writes on teaching her daughter the female lesson in using guile to get back at her annoying older brother instead of getting angry at him. The daughter later finds her calling of writing that stemmed from her brother annoying her...
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Gifts for Gourmets: The Season for Creative Giving
I enjoy collecting cookbooks and I love to give them to ambitious home chefs and self-taught cooks.  Entertaining from an Ethnic Indian Kitchen, is 300-plus pages of gorgeous color photographs, featuring hundreds of delicious and unusual recipes by Komali Nunna, the 'Indian Martha Stewart'...
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Holidays Pose Special Problems
While families and friends gather to enjoy each other during the holiday season, holidays pose special challenges for families and friends of problem drinkers. Every festive event has the opportunity for conflict when someone drinks too much. Al-Anon Family Groups have been helping families and friends of problem drinkers since 1951. Over 14,000 groups conduct meetings every week throughout the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda...
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Cognitive Kidz are Successful Kids
A newly developed early learning program operated by Kidz Therapy Networks, Inc. is designed to boost cognitive skills and prepare children 18 to 48 months for pre-school success...
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The Roberts’ Family Journey with PKD
The Roberts family story about their battle with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). Their greatest hope is for families faced with PKD and doctors in the future to have more access to treatment options and information...
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Laura on Life
Laura writes on the challenges the "video game virus" plays with her children and even her husband...
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Laura on Life
With Halloween just around the corner Laura writes on her lesson on how to survive a zombie attack...
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The Consumer Decision Women Don't Want to Make Alone
Jack Allen, President of Ingram's Funeral Home says final arrangements are decisions almost always made by women alone, but it doesn't have to be that way...
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Cumming's Newest Child Care Center Now Open
The area's newest choice in educational child care, The Learning Experience® is now open in Cumming...
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Talented, Intelligent Children are Failing in the Classroom
For some children, an undiagnosed visual perception problem could account for struggles in the classroom and with school work. Dr. Kimberly Linert of Incredible Vision Center explains this condition and is offering free screenings to Cumming Home readers through the end of the year...
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North Forsyth High School Band Hosts the Taste of Christmas Short
The North Forsyth High School Band is proud to host the Second Annual Taste of Christmas at North Lanier Baptist Church on November 21, 2009 between 1-5. This is a family friendly festival with Santa, Food, Craft Show and FUN.
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Laura on Life
Life story of Laura and her husband coming up with their made up Native American names while painting their house.
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Laura on Life
Laura with a life lesson on the trials of having and being a family.
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Cotillion of the South
Two step what?  Open the door where?  Emily Post who?  If you don’t know the answers to these questions, then join us at the Cotillion of the South, where education, culture and proper etiquette come together in fun and creative activities that influence a positive outlook in today’s fast paced society....
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Funeral and Memorial Service Etiquette
Knowing how to act and what to say at a funeral or memorial service is sometimes difficult and awkward. Ingram's Funeral Home staff shares some advice for those difficults moments...
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Georgia Felony Defense Attorney also Handles Personal Injury
Georgia felony defense attorney Robert Giannini also handles personal injury cases including injuries resulting from motor vehicle accidents and dog bites...
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The Media Won’t Care if You’ve Made Final Arrangements, But Your Family Will
Most people's deaths, funerals, and final arrangements don't make national headlines, but you can bet your family will have a vested interest. Ingram's Funeral Home tells us why pre-planning is so important...
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Stars and Strikes Kicks Off ‘Luau at the Lanes’ and ‘97 Days of Summer’ with Bowling for 97 Cents
From now through Labor day, guests are invited to bowl each week, Monday – Friday from 9 - 11 a.m., for just 97 cents per person, per game, plus shoe rental.  And as a special promotion on Friday night, June 5, guests can join 97.1 The River’s ‘River Rat Bowling Club’ at Stars and Strikes in Cumming and sign up to be one of 10 teams of 4-6 bowlers to enjoy free bowling for two hours, and a free limited edition River Bowling Club T-Shirt...
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Sensory Overload
The expert pediatric therapists at Kidz Therapy Network explain a condition known as Sensory Processing Dysfunction and how occupational therapy can help...
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Zap Test Anxiety While Building Self Esteem in Kids
Schools are in competition to determine who can produce the greatest number of Einsteins each year.  It’s not enough to bring home a good report card any more.  Students and teachers alike are now under the gun to ace the various state-mandated tests that could propel their school to the top...
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Healing Help from Ingram’s Funeral Home
Ingram's Funeral Home shares why faith is important to healing when grieving and provides added support to the community through its services...
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