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...broadband video platform on Nick.com lets kids watch full-length episodes of their favorite Nick shows online, sometimes even before they air on cable. Through a deal with Verizon Wireless, Nick loyalists can download three-minute videos of Blue's Clues or other shows on their mom or dad's cell phones. Even the family car is now a Nick zone: in a partnership with General Motors, episodes of Nick's series are programmed into GM Chevy Uplander SUVs equipped with specially designed portable digital systems...
...suppose I had it coming. My parents drink three cups a day. They’re such loyal (or, more to the point, frequent) Starbucks customers that my dad doesn’t even have to say their morning order—the baristas already know what he wants...
Katie was just 6 when she informed her dad that she was going to be a cheerleader in middle school, high school and "the rest of my school years." She started dancing lessons at age 3 and gymnastics at 6, and she's succeeded so far, winning a spot on the squad at Crandall Middle School two years in a row despite competition from girls with new tumbles and jumps. As a "flyer," who gets tossed or lifted in the air, Katie must rely on her teammates to catch her. At cheerleading camp, she ends up sporting an ice pack...
...being mean?'" Shea's father wants to pray about her problems together as a family, as they did when she was younger. Increasingly, though, Shea prays alone. "It's kind of hard to say the things I want to say to God out loud to my dad," she says. "Sometimes they're not things he wants to hear...
Tristan's personal encounter also gave him the confidence to challenge family members on some aspects of their faith. He thinks gay people were made that way by God, but his dad thinks it's a choice. Tristan believes that practicing his guitar glorifies God, while his parents wish he would do more homework. He's slowly making his own decisions about right and wrong. It's a skill that will keep him safe, he says, from the myriad temptations that will bedevil him between middle school and marriage...