All right, kids, you’ve waited all year for it, and now it’s finally here. Time for our annual trip to the beach, and pretty soon we’ll be on the road…
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Q: Help! My three-month-old baby cries all the time and doesn’t sleep more than three hours at a time. I wasn’t planning on returning to work until after she was older…
My children have specific criteria for their ideal backpacks. One insists on monkey graphics and the other a sports motif. If you and your child select a brand new backpack…
Why your kids need to see you fail and deal with it in a reasonable way. How messing up and moving on is a good thing – in parenting and in life.
So, it is summer, and some of you are probably planning to send your children to camp for the first time. I have three words of advice: Don’t do it.…
Q: We have a 3-year-old with a typically short attention span.Both my husband and i work outside the home. The hour before dinner is so hectic, we are trying to…
People often say that kids are like sponges, effortlessly absorbing all the information they encounter. How true!Consider kids who are exposed to two languages in their home and are bilingual…
We were done. As in, we had decided on two kids, and I knew we were done. Yet, there I was, pregnant as all get-out, swollen with impending motherhood –…
By Dianne Durante, Ed.S. and Kirsten Hagman, LMSW Relational Aggression (R.A.) is a term that many parents are unfamiliar with but educators are reporting that it is now one of their…
Local professionals have the following suggestions about how to help your child navigate through the divorce process: 1. Tell them with both parents together – with no hostility or anger. 2. Assure…
More Secrets Teacher Won’t TellBy Sherrill Kauffman In every job there is balance between candor and professional discretion. This is especially true in teaching education where other children, colleagues, and…
Five Steps to Being a Mindful Parent You may have noticed the word “mindful” cropping up in some of parenting articles you read. Maybe you don’t know what it means…
