Can a mother and daughter be happy participating in competitive sports together — and sometimes on opposite teams?

CHICAGO — The warning came too late for Barack Obama's adviser: Don't walk and text at the same time.

A parenting tip from "Practical Wisdom For Parents: Raising Self-Confident Children In The Preschool Years," by Nancy Schulman and Ellen Birnbaum (Vintage Books): Playdates for preschool-age kids work best with parties of two.

"The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor": In the Far East, a trouble-seeking father-and-son duo unearth the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin — a shape-shifting entity who was cursed by a wizard centuries ago.

Q. Astaxanthin is a caroten-oid antioxidant found in marine animals and vegetables. Can I take it to protect my skin from the sun's ultraviolet rays?

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Whether she's a picky eater, a 'tween who's watching her weight or a budding vegetarian, your child may be falling short in key nutrients, says Marilyn Tanner-Blasiar, a pediatric dietitian at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Make sure your child is getting enough of these:

Los Angeles filmmakers Dylan Robertson and Bill Ferehawk are framers, much in the way a carpenter frames a door. When Ferehawk, a former architect, sees a Japanese Buddhist temple, he sees a frame. What better way to tell the visual, moving-picture story of the course Japanese Buddhism has taken through Island history?

Meet the new Willy Wonka: Timothy Childs is a former space shuttle technologist who's building a 29,000-square-foot chocolate factory on prime waterfront property on the Embarcadero.

Although some cooking competitions are better known — the National Chicken Cooking Contest, the Pillsbury Bake-Off — Sutter Home Winery's Build a Better Burger National Contest and Cook-Off competition has grown in popularity and importance in recent years.