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The article presents the corporate agenda and priorities of top 10 chief executive officers (CEO) of various companies. CEO Miles D. White of Abbott Laboratories Inc. states that they help families to have healthier lives. Chairman Sam Palmisano of International Business Machines Corp. states that their priority is health care, infrastructure and education. CEO Edward Nusbaum of Grant Thornton LLP states that their major priority is to provide tools for their employees for sustainable living.

The article provides information on the benefits of letting a child play alone. It notes that it is important for children, particularly toddlers, to be left alone playing. It states that by providing stimulating toys and motivating activities, they learn to modulate their activity and build self-satisfaction. A child expert says that the benefit of allowing kids go solo gives them a chance to perform tasks by themselves, face challenges and solve problems without any help from other people.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for making environmental friendly crafts from recyclable materials including mini magnets from bottle caps, puppets from wooden spoons, and bottle bank from empty water bottle.

The article offers tips from author Tamar Chansky in raising and teaching children to be honest.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for making paper-made art including flowers, bags, and butterflies.

The article offers information on the myth and facts regarding children's eczema.

The article focuses on the peer problems experienced by immigrant children of immigrant parents in school including academic troubles, stress, and depression. Arlene Noriega, a clinical psychologist at Stonewall Psychological Associates in Atlanta, Georgia, says that many immigrant children were being ostracized by their peers and by other teachers. Furthermore, Noriega suggests that immigrant parents should be emotionally supportive and acutely attuned to the feelings of their children.

The article offers tips on the creation of Christmas art crafts including Christmas countdown, menorah, and custom cards.

The article presents ways on how to know the activities or whereabouts of teenagers without putting any pressure on them. It discusses a study which shows that parents who keep watch on teenagers are less prone to risky behaviors such as the use of alcohol and drugs. It states that trust on both sides is the key to find the middle ground, in which adolescents should be given a chance to explain their reasoning. Furthermore, it says that teenagers should to taught to understand risky behaviors.

The article offers several step-by-step instructions for making Halloween crafts including Kooky Kitty pencil cup, table topper Pumpkin Sack, and fringe magnets Silly Specter.

The article offers news briefs in the U.S. After the tornado incident in 2009, Greensburg, Kansas rebuild its town into a green community where city leaders use solar and wind technologies for power and geothermal heat. According to a study, there are 520,000 children in the U.S. that need foster families. A study by Harvard University and University College in San Diego, California shows that the happiness of a person causes chain reaction in a social network.

The article offers step-by-step-instructions on making bookmarks, a tote bag and a supply box.

The article offers information related to working mothers. Andrea Vincent has launched seeMOMMYrun.com, a non-profit website which encourages mothers to stay active by joining a running or walking group. A mother to twins Lora Yates, operations director at a J&J company, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, feels fortunate that diversity is recognized and appreciated in her workplace. A quote from mother-actress Kate Winslet is also presented.

The article focuses on the explanation regarding children who are talking to themselves. According to professor Adam Winsler, young children may talk to themselves as they problem-solve their daily activities. Allowing a child to continue with nondisruptive self-talk can help him learn and grow cognitively. Moreover, private speech is an internal tool through which learning takes place.

The article offers information on how to prepare various crafts for children. Flower power can be made by cutting and putting a glue yellow craft foam paper around an empty can. Bright light's materials include a pillar candle, small decorative buttons and pearl-tipped straight pins. Sweet notes can be done by folding a pink card stock in half, while applying a glue white paper with scalloped edges on top.

The article offers information on the 10,000 Women, a program launched by Goldman Sachs and Co. to help women increase their business and management skills in the U.S. The company teamed up with more than 30 academic partners to help 10,000 women across the world receive business certificates. It also enabled a small group of students to participate in a certificate program in entrepreneurial management which is designed to develop accounting and public speaking skills.

The article discusses the marketing strategy of entrepreneur Ally Loprete in the U.S. Loprete focuses mainly on creating online directory so that parents can purchase each other's products and services. The Web site ourmilkmoney.com was launched with the encouragement of cofounder Kelli Shand. The site has over 250 members and roughly 3,500 business listings.

The article offers step-by-step instructions on how to create seasonal crafts which include Hippity Hop candy container, marvelous mat, and Passover seder plate.

The article discusses tips on how mothers who cannot or choose not to breast feed can optimize their child's growth and development. According to the author, it is important for a mother who wants to breast feed but cannot to acknowledge the loss and then enhance the relationship with the baby by being together as much as she can and responding swiftly to the baby's needs. The author adds that mothers can engage their child in healthy activities and offer other forms of healthy nutrition.

The article offers instructions for making a suncatcher.

The article offers instructions for making a bright bouquet for the Valentine's Day.

The article offers instructions for making a bee valentine card

The article features a working mother's blog on how she feels about being a stranger to many people in her community. She also describes how her stay-at-home husband takes care of their two children while she was at work. She notes that she feels like a superstar with the way people are reacting when they meet her at the grocery store with her children.

The article highlights the invention of birth control pills and its role in women's liberation. It notes that the approval of the pill 50 years ago, along with family planning education, helped women join the labor force. It adds that the breakthrough altered the timeline of women's history with an emphasis on the workplace and giving both women and men greater flexibility to care for family.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for creating Santa place cards.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for creating popsicle candles.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for creating a Hanukkah magnet.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for creating a snowman.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for several Thanksgiving Day crafts for children such as tepee cards, wooden craft sticks, and pumpkin paper cards.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for creating several Halloween crafts.

The article presents tips on how parents can handle their preschool children who are beginning to express love to opposite sex. The preschool years are the time when children start to notice the differences between boys and girls. Parents should not worry when their children starts to express love. They should use the situation to help their children learn healthy play and emotion-management skills.

The article focuses on the periodical's 2008 100 Best Companies in the U.S. The companies were selected for offering work/life benefits including back up child care, paid leaves, telecommuting, flexible time, phase-back programs and paid time off to volunteer. 54 of the 100 companies tie managers' pay to women's advancement rates. Some of the companies also offer adoption assistance and fertility treatment reimbursements.