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What To Expect When Your College Student Is Home For Break
Many college students come home for Thanksgiving, and while you're all looking forward to it, it can be an adjustment. You are excited...


How to Recognize Anxiety in Kids
One of the really hard things about parenting young kids is that you don't know what you don't know. And your kids are too young to tell...


How To Encourage Independence
In many ways we humans are always striving to do things on our own, right from the start. Babies insist on holding a bottle or picking...


Top 10 Risky Behaviors of Teen Drivers
Have a teen driver in the house? Here are 10 things you may not recognize as dangerous for them. Read on


Feeling Safe is the End Game
For your child to thrive you need to look beyond a tantrum Being the mom of an anxious child is life changing. It changes the lens...


Sneak Some Learning Into Summer
Teachers spend an average of four to eight weeks every fall reviewing and reteaching material that students have forgotten during the long s


The Truth About Lies
Are you ever completely baffled by your kids? Like you have no understanding of why they’re acting in a certain way? The one that always...


10 Ways Exercise Makes Me A Better Mom
Beyond its obvious health benefits, exercise has gives us a tremendous psychological boost. It really doesn’t matter what exercise you do as


Fun Ways To Keep The Kids Cool
We’ve had some pretty hot weather recently--almost wherever you are in the US. I don’t know about your kids, but mine are not big fans of...


7 Life Strategies Your Child Needs Before College
It’s Summertime and that means school is out — or almost out. It means proms and graduations and summer internships or jobs. For those of...


How To Recognize Separation Anxiety
“My stomach hurts.” “I can’t sleep;” “Can you close my closet?” “Can I just sleep with you?” Sound familiar? You are not alone--and...


Ten Things You Should Know About Motherhood
As a new mom, I really wanted to know what I didn’t know: how to be successful. I wanted someone to clue me in to the secret of being a...


How to help our teens Mitigate Anxiety
Teen angst. A great phrase; onomatopoeia. But as much as I like how it sounds, I hate the reality


How to be Present With Your Kids in a Digital World
As parents, we share and celebrate some really big milestones with our children. Sometimes it’s a lot harder to share the every-day...


5 Quick Stress Busters While Waiting on College Decisions
You submitted your college applications, scores, essays and all. What a relief—for a few days, then you realize you are just hanging in...
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