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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Philly Parents Archive

Black History Month Celebration (Image Courtesy/BigStock)
Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

5 ways to explore Black History Month with your kids over Presidents’ Day Weekend

Have you made plans for your family for the upcoming President’s Day weekend?

4 days ago

National Constitution Center photo credit/Big Stock
Philly Parenting
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Sensory-friendly museum days in Philly

The US Constitution Center joins a group of Philadelphia museums that offer programs for people with sensory sensitivities

2 weeks ago

Kids thank you card. (Image Courtesy/BigStock)
Philly Parenting
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Gratitude is not dead

Walking through the streets of Old San Juan Puerto Rico on a balmy December evening my 30-year old nephew handed my 6-year old daughter a ten dollar bill and said:

4 weeks ago

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Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Events and resources to honor Martin Luther King Jr.

How will you and your kids recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. day this year? If you are not working on Monday, there are lots of ...

1 month ago

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Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

The only resolution worth keeping this new year

All the airbags deployed. Every single one of them.

1 month ago

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Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Five ways families can make a difference during the holidays

December is a month of giving…but many of us parents struggle with the consumerist expectations that surround the holiday season.

2 months ago

The author's family enjoying the perks of cutting down their own Christmas tree. (Photo Courtesy/Jeff Bogle)
Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Cutting our own Christmas tree one more time

I’m the last guy you would ever expect to see behind the wheel of a heavy duty pickup truck.

3 months ago

In this Oct. 28, 2018, file photo a Pittsburgh Police officer walks past the Tree of Life Synagogue and a memorial of flowers and stars in Pittsburgh in remembrance of those killed and injured when a shooter opened fire during services Saturday at the synagogue. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo, File)
Philly Parenting
Community

To my non-Jewish friends, after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

It’s been two and half weeks since 11 people were killed and 7 more were injured while they were praying during Shabbat morning services at a synagogue in the Squirrel Hill

3 months ago

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Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Philly’s family-friendly Halloween happenings

Do you like to be scared? I don’t!

4 months ago

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Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Good grief

When I was five years old, my pet guinea pig died.

4 months ago

Trades for a Difference (Photo Courtesy/Steve Weinik for Mural Arts Philadelphia)
Philly Parenting
Community

Explore Philly’s murals with your kids

Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods—and depending on where you and your family live, whether within the city limits or in the Philly suburbs, there may be lots of neighbor

5 months ago

Variation Children Kids Friendship Cheerful Concept
Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Empowered vs. entitled!

My family loves to travel. On a brisk late spring night in Atlantic City, just an hour away from our Philly home, my adventurous f ...

5 months ago

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Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Why we chose online school for our teen

Anyone who’s ever heard me stumble through trying to explain the identifiable traits of a mammal, watched me do 5th grade math, or list ...

5 months ago

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Education

5 ways to ease back into your school schedule

That time of summer is here…when the stores are filled with school supplies, bus schedules and teacher assignments are announced and ki ...

6 months ago

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Philly Parenting
Community

Are American kids too coddled?

There’s something opulent about easing your way into a summer vacation day.

6 months ago

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