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Family Guide to Residential Treatment for Teenage Depression

May 19, 2026 / Lessons in Parenting

Does your teen need inpatient mental health care? This guide will try to break down the stigma and help families with what they need to know.

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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Fun and Easy Ways for Kids to Learn Coding

November 19, 2025 / Lessons in Parenting

Want to encourage your kids to learn to code? From free apps and games to kid-friendly bootcamps, there's a program for every budget.

In my last post, I wrote about the importance of imaginative play for helping children develop problem-solving skills, creativity, and the ability to collaborate with others. Likewise, when kids learn coding, they gain so many more valuable skills than you might think. Should kids learn coding? Absolutely! Coding for kids is a basic skill that

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Your Back To School Clothes Shopping List (High School Edition)

July 12, 2025 / Lessons in Parenting

Back to school clothing shopping with a high schooler can be a nightmare, but it doesn't have to be; this checklist will help.

High School Back to School Made Easy: It’s only July, it seems as if school just let out yesterday, and yet already I’m trying to figure out how and when we’re going to squeeze in back to school shopping. I am NOT a big fan of schlepping from one store to the next, often over

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Special Occasion Dresses: 5 Tips for Formal Dress Shopping

June 16, 2025 / Lessons in Parenting

Formal dress shopping should be fun, not stressful! From proms to weddings, these dress shopping tips can streamline the process.

So much of the world has gone more casual in the past decade – from Michelle Obama’s famous pantyhose avoidance, to the athleisure “workwear” that became ubiquitous during the pandemic and subsequent work-from-home era – that it’s easy to forget how to dress up. (Or, for that matter, that choosing the perfect dress is even

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Protect Kids Online: Do’s and Don’ts for Parents

March 23, 2025 / Lessons in Parenting

Do you know how to protect kids online? It's easier than you might think to keep kids safe on the internet, but takes some planning.

Most of us who are parents now are raising children in an era unlike anything we grew up with. Artificial intelligence was the stuff of science fiction, people didn’t carry computers in their pockets because smartphones didn’t exist, and social media was also nonexistent. Thus it makes sense that figuring out how to protect your

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