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…
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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…
You were just a trembling pup all those years ago, only eight weeks old when we picked you from the litter. We brought you home in a box filled with…
Q: My daughter is nervous about summer as many of the neighborhood kids go to a different school than the one she attends. She is worried about how she will…
Sometime during the preschool years and elementary school, many parents and their children enter the world of organized sports. For us, it started with four-year-old soccer, a sport that consists…
A little while ago, the younger of my two children, an eleven-year-old girl, let me know it was time to remove her booster seat from the back seat of my…
If you’re lucky enough to have special fathers in your family’s life, make sure your kids know how awesome they were when your kids were little.
Okay, here we go, let’s see if we can get you to catch. It’s just a tiny flame at first, gnawing away at the edge of some crumpled newspaper. now…