It's Day 7 of our HUGE Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway! Today's gifts are all about STEM, building and creating.
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Central Penn Parent 2018 Gift Guide Giveaway DAY 7 – FIVE great STEM gifts!
What it’s like to leave your baby in the NICU 
Research shows that 41 percent of parents with a child in the NICU showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Here’s one mom’s story. Continue reading.
Read More »Lancaster Science Factory to host Chewbacca, Darth Vader and Jedi knights 
Fans can see costumed characters, light saber battles and special experiments this weekend.
Read More »Central Penn Parent 2018 Gift Guide Giveaway DAY 6 – FIVE great gifts! 
For Day 6 of our HUGE Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway, we're giving away kitchen products for kids, board games and more!
Read More »Harrisburg Academy’s social media threat not credible, school to reopen Tuesday 
The offending student, from a school in Florida, is part of an Instagram group that participates in 'raids,' sending random messages intended to harass or scare the recipient.
Read More »Middle school students pull off surprise for ‘Harry Potter’ fan fighting rare disease 
The Make A Wish Foundation recently told the family they wouldn’t be able to grant Teague’s number one wish, a trip to Harry Potter World in Florida. So, his class spent the better part of a month planning this surprise. Continue reading.
Read More »Central Penn Parent 2018 Gift Guide Giveaway DAY 5 – FIVE great gifts! 
It's Day 5 of our HUGE Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway! And today's focus is on creative or imaginative fun.
Read More »Extra day to enter this weekend’s gift giveaways 
We’re on day 5 of our 2018 holiday gift giveaway. If you missed entering on Saturday and Sunday, fear not! We’ve kept the entry forms live through tonight! Here are the links for each day, and their great prizes: http://www.centralpennparent.com/2018/central-penn-parent-2018-gift-guide-giveaway-day-3-five-great-prizes/ http://www.centralpennparent.com/2018/central-penn-parent-2018-gift-guide-giveaway-day-4-five-experience-gifts/
Read More »Central Penn Parent 2018 Gift Guide Giveaway DAY 4 – FIVE “experience” gifts! 
It's Day 4 of our biggest holiday gift guide giveaway ever! Enter to win today's "gifts of experience."
Read More »Central Penn Parent 2018 Gift Guide Giveaway DAY 3 – FIVE great prizes! 
Day 3 of our BIGGEST Gift Guide Giveaway EVER!
Read More »Kristen Bell’s daughter ‘demanded’ she dress up as Elsa from Frozen for the second year in a row 
For Halloween this year, Bell, 38, dressed up as Elsa from Frozen for the second year in a row despite the fact that she voiced Anna in the Walt Disney Animation film. Continue reading.
Read More »10-year study reveals link to cell phone use and cancer–in rats 
The $30 million, 10-year study pointed to cell phone radiation causing cancer in male rats; but the study's levels of radiation and the length of exposure far exceeded routine use.
Read More »Central Penn Parent 2018 Gift Guide Giveaway DAY 2 – FIVE great prizes! 
It’s day 2 of our HUGE Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway! And today is all about gifts for the tiny tikes in your life! You may enter to win these prizes TODAY only, before MIDNIGHT. You may also enter to win multiple items, but only one entry, per person, per item is permitted. And winners cannot win multiple prizes during the ...
Read More »Parents need to be acquainted with the fan fiction world 
Fan-fiction works vary immensely in their appropriateness for children to read. Some have racy language and graphic descriptions of sex, drugs or violence.
Read More »J.K. Rowling adores cute babies in Harry Potter Halloween costumes and tbh they’re pretty magical 
The author shared her favorite 2018 Potter costumes on Twitter and there’s some pretty amazing ones in the mix. Continue reading.
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