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Family News Update: Spoiled Generation All Grown Up, Video Games Distract Kids from School Work, Photos of the Strangest Pet-Walking You’ll Ever See and more

• AND, they’re UGG-ly:
UGG boots are bad for your back and feet (The Toronto Star)

• Wait just a minute! So, you’re suggesting that coddling our kids, passing them even though they should have failed and praising them for fear of offending them with constructive criticism has led to a generation who think they deserve success without hard work? But we just wanted our kids to like us:
Generation Me employees seek gold stars, vacation time (The Toronto Star)

• The grown-up life of a shaken baby:
Assaulted as an infant, violent teen left in limbo (The Toronto Star)

• “Okay honey, go play. But not too much! Take a rest once in a while. But not for too long!”:
Obesity may be a growing problem among children, but so too is over activity (The National Post)

• Who’d have thought the novelty of a new video game system would have taken kids’ attention away from something as riveting as homework?:
Study suggests new video gamers face drop in reading, writing skills at school (Yahoo)

• A must-read for parents with kids who have behavioural/related issues:
Concocting a cure for kids with issues (The New York Times)

• Or, perhaps you’d be happy with a nice cat:
They say: Two kids better than one or none (The San Francisco Chronicle)

• For lack of the usual funny, family-related article to end the week, enjoy this:
20 Moments in Strange Pet Walking (BannedInHollywood)
* NOTE: There’s a photo of a man walking a fish.

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New Daily Contest: Win Impossibly Cute Finger Puppet Books

Puppets will surely make story-time your child’s most favourite time of the day. With the help of our friends at Raincoast Books, we are excited to offer you the chance to win a fabulous finger puppet book.

Each book has a cute and cuddly-looking finger puppet that pops out from the centre of each page. The finger puppet is conveniently attached to the last page so that it will never get lost.

On Monday, will launch our brand new daily contest. We will be giving away a different finger puppet book every weekday from March 22 to April 16.

We will giveaway a different book each day, so take a look at the titles below and keep watching for a chance to win your favourite!

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Send Us Your “Luxe for Less” For A Chance To Win!

Are you a bargain shopper? Have you snagged an amazing deal lately? Well, we want to know about it! Tell us about your best “Luxe for Less” purchase for a chance to win either a $50 gift certificate from Babies R Us or a Lux UltraSoft Hobo Diaper Bag.

A big shout out to all of last weeks entries, especially our winner Maria Pollard who is not only thrifty, but also a philanthropist. She scored some board games from coupons cut out of the back of her Kelloggs cereal and donated them to a toy drive.

This week we want to hear about decor items. With the weather getting warmer, we are already thinking about garage sales! So how do you nab great deals on stuff for your house?

This weeks winner will be announced next Friday, along with the third round of the contest.

To enter to win, send us your “Luxe for Less” find at win@canadianfamily.ca.

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