Now that both my kids are in high school (!), we’re starting to think about what they want to do after they graduate. They are so fortunate to attend a large regional high school, where each graduating class is about twice the size of my entire high school (!!). Because of this, they have opportunities
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As a busy parent, don’t you wish sometimes that life raising kids came with an “easy” button? So many things, it seems we have to figure out the hard way, through our own trial and error (that’s actually how this blog was born in the first place!). And if you’re parenting a neurodivergent child (as
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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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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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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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How Do I Know If My Child Is Dyslexic? My brother Evan was in the second grade when his teacher, Miss Shaw, changed his life by reaching out to my parents. Miss Shaw was fresh out of college, and noticed signs of a learning difference called dyslexia in my brother’s struggles with basic reading. It
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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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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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