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KPBS Families Hub
Welcome to KPBS Families Hub. This is the place to find news, information and resources to help you make decisions about the children under your care and support you in your family adventures.
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What's the right age to take kids to a loud sporting event? A Johns Hopkins noise expert on protecting babies' ears and when game day noise might be too much for them.
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San Diego Unified School District will increase the number of Transitional Kindergarten classrooms around the district by 10% and reduce class sizes from 24 to 20.
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Cuanto más recurran los estudiantes a los 'chatbots' de Inteligencia Artificial, menos posibilidades tendrán de desarrollar relaciones en la vida real que puedan conducir a empleos y al éxito posterior.
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The all-star team won the Mexican national championship last month and is heading to Williamsport, Pennsylvania this week for the Little League World Series.
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The state has repeatedly balked at boosting how much it pays the people who care for society’s mistreated children.
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San Diego, like counties across the country, confiscates the benefits of foster children as reimbursement for their care -- even though there's money already set aside for that purpose.
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A.I. is the other big change in the media landscape for kids and parents, the report from Common Sense Media finds.
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Adam Ratner predicts the appointment of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: "It is much easier to scare people than to unscare them," he says.
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As childhood vaccination rates drop in the U.S., outbreaks of measles are rising. In his new book, Booster Shots, Dr. Adam Ratner makes the case that this is a bad sign for public health.
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Despite Trump’s plans, federal funding is a small part of California’s education budget and the state oversees curriculum.
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Founder Barbara Gates says beans are an affordable, eco-friendly protein source found in cuisine around the world.
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San Diego County announced a lawsuit Thursday against Google, SnapChat, YouTube, TikTok and Meta — the parent company of Instagram and Facebook. It alleges their conduct constitutes a public nuisance.
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Our roundup of art and culture to discover in San Diego this month: Visual art, music, theater, dance, outdoor festivals, books, film and more. Up next: The Rosin Box Project's women choreographers showcase; "Land and Sea" at MCASD; Omar Sosa; Sacra/Profana; San Diego Short Film Festival; Ron Currie; and Domonique King's "Get Hammered."
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In the new children's book "Jawara's Journey," a boy learns how many generations of Africans in the diaspora have kept their traditions alive. Proceeds for the book will go to Altadena fire relief through March.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen's children's book, "Simone," tells the story of a young Vietnamese American girl whose life is uprooted by a wildfire and how she finds comfort in art.



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