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Soon enough, school will be out for the summer! I

Although 'Home Alone' is a movie, would you get in legal trouble if you left your child home alone in New York state in real life?

Look, the baby at least seems happy.

This is the time of year when you start planning your summer, including somewhere for your kids to go to summer camp. The best summer camp in the country is in Upstate New York. Ask parents in the Capital Region and they already know how great this camp is. Now the whole country knows.

Hoffman's Playland was an amusement park in Latham from 1952 until 2014. Even though many of the rides were relocated to Huck Finn's Playland in Albany, Hoffman's holds a soft spot in many Capital Region families' hearts. Take a look at abandoned Hoffman's Playland.

What age did your parents leave you home alone? Do you think that it is too young? What does New York State say the age is? Is there an age?

The only thing that's more painful than playing sports as an adult is watching kids play them. However, new studies show that children are the only ones who actually have the constitution to play physical sports at an intense level.

Everyone knows the Hudson Valley is tops for apples, but there's plenty of other produce to pick in our area.

Connor Michalek was a big WWE fan, particularly of wrestler Daniel Bryan. In 2012, a YouTube campaign went viral and Daniel got to meet his idol shortly before succumbing to cancer.

This  Montessori chart of “Age-Appropriate Chores for Children” has been all over facebook lately....and some of the chores seem ridiculous for a small child to do.  But, parents everywhere are looking at the chart and bragging about how their 2 year old is doing 6 year old chores...