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If you spend $30 on an educational software program, will your child use it once and then never use it again? Is that new movie "right" for a 5-year-old? How do other parents deal with temper tantrums, homework battles, or even more complicated issues like attention deficit disorder? Now, you can get the answers you need from parents who are dealing with the same questions.

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You'll find parents of 5-year-old kamikazes and 7-year-old shrinking violets who are willing to share their experiences with everyday products, fun and educational activities, and approaches to difficult topics. Their perspectives range from religious to secular, from conservative to liberal, and everything in between.

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Unlike a parenting magazine, familyeducation.com brings the back fence to you -- a very large back fence with thousands of parents' voices, not just one editor's opinion.

At What Works, you can decide what works and what doesn't. You can write about solutions that worked for you and your family. You can comment on what other parents have written, and you can vote on how helpful other parents' comments have been.

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All rated products, activities, and approaches are ranked on a scale of one to four stars.

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Votes are cast by visitors to What Works. Visitors can vote on how helpful a review is. It's a great way to add your two cents!

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Submissions are periodically edited by staff for grammar and word choice. However, editors do NOT change the writer's intended meaning.

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