How well can your child see? Maybe not as well as you think. And while it may not seem like a big deal if your kid’s vision is a little off, the impacts can be far more severe than you could ever imagine. Sports, school, and even hanging out with friends are all a lot harder
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Your Quick-Start Guide to Helping Elderly Parents: Sometimes it creeps up on us slowly. Sometimes there’s a crisis – one parent’s death, or a serious diagnosis – that makes it clear: Our parents aren’t getting any younger. And as they age, they may need more help from their adult children in taking care of themselves.
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Aging in Place 101: A Caregiver’s Guide to Aging in Place For those of us living life in the sandwich generation, we’re constantly balancing caring for our children with caring for our aging parents. To say it isn’t easy is an understatement; I’ve watched many friends and extended family members go through this process, and I’ve
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What Makes Residential Programs for Teens With Depression Different From Outpatient Care? If your teenager is experiencing a mental health crisis, the words inpatient mental health can feel overwhelming, not to mention super-scary. You want answers, not more confusion. Unfortunately, with depression among teenagers rising sharply in the past decade-plus, residential treatment for teenage depression
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Family Game Night Made Easy: How to Host a Weekly Game Night At Home Entertainment gets expensive fast. One movie night can mean tickets, snacks, and drinks. A quick trip to the arcade or another streaming subscription adds even more to the monthly bill. Before you know it, family fun starts to feel like a
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While I grew up with only one living grandparent, who was always quite elderly and frail; the other three had all passed before I was born. Today, my children are blessed to have three doting grandparents in their lives. But just during their lifetimes, they’ve watched their grandparents battle cancer, heart conditions requiring surgery, joint
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When I think of holidays with my family growing up, I remember all of us together. In fact, many of my memories of my family growing up involve lots of “together” time, even though my dad worked ridiculously long hours during my earliest years. When I compare that to my own family nowadays, it sometimes
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With so much in flux in the economy these days, I know lots of families who are finding themselves suddenly on a different career track or life path than they had expected. Which means a lot of them are looking at packing up and relocating, often to a new state. Besides all the hassle of
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When life throws you a curveball, how do you react? What do you do when life throws you for a loop? How do you cope? Wouldn’t it be nice if there were quick and easy answers to make it all better? But life doesn’t work that way, does it? A loved one gets a serious
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Recently I spent a rare kid-free day at a conference with a friend. Cathleen is one of those friends you wish you could share more cups of tea with. Nowadays, our paths don’t cross nearly as much as they used to before I was married and a mama, back in the days when I’d run
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