Parenting

Teens & Tweens

Tips for Raising Kids with Dogs

Adopting a dog has many plusses. Among them is that you're giving a critter a forever home, and you're teaching your child about living...
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Drowning Prevention Tips

Kids are always ready to toss on their swimming gear and hit the pool. But for parents, a trip to the pool can’t be...
Teens & Tweens

Teens and Cyberbullying

It wasn’t long ago that bullying was relegated to face-to-face interaction. This meant that, if a child was safe at home, the bully would...
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Tips for Parent-Teen Bonding

When my children were little, I would envision the teenage years with trepidation. I remembered all I had put my parents through, and was...
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Managing Big Changes in a Time of Big Anxiety

Oftentimes, we joke that we wish children came with manuals. But because there is no such thing, we rush to the next best option:...
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New Year’s Resolutions for Parents 

Making New Year’s resolutions is futile: No matter how optimistic we are about implementing positive changes in our lives on January 1st, the statistics...
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A Giving Teen

At a young age, Sarah McDaniel’s daughter lost her left eye to cancer. While the tragedy was a painful time for the McDaniel family,...
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Future Goals

As the story goes, when I was five or six, I went around explaining to adults that I wanted to be three things when...
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Kid Person 

I’ve always been a kid person. Even before I had my own child, I’ve always just been one of those people who finds kids...
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Soccer Goals 

I was a serious athlete growing up, but I never played soccer. Not even as a little kid. Soccer is the one sport I...

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