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Helping kids adjust to school during COVID
No matter if your family is sending your little ones off to school for the first time or if you are dealing with changes in how schools are functioning, as is the ...
How fatigue may be making parenting harder
Nicole was working from home while trying to oversee her children’s academic learning that was taking place in a mix of online and face-to-face coursework. She was finding it hard to get...
Helping our children adapt to the realities of COVID-19
As the recommendations around social distancing and reopening continue to evolve, we must respond and make plans according to our own comfort level and needs. This means, as p...
Vaccines are safe and MMR vaccine is not related to autism
Before you read this post, I want to clarify my position as an educator to avoid anyone reading anything into what I want to write about vaccines. As most of my readers know, I base al...
How to explain the difference between needs and wants to small...
Children may be saying things like, “This isn’t the kind I like!” “But I want…” and “Can we get some tomorrow?” Even in more normal times, young children are still learning the differen...
How to support your child when they feel worried
During these uncertain times, we can’t promise our children things that we don’t control. We don’t know if people we love will become sick or that things will ...
By recognizing signs of stress, you can help your child manage...
Patricia was concerned because her four-year-old daughter Mary had started wetting the bed suddenly. Mary also returned to baby-talk to express her needs about a week into ...
Simple ways of talking about COVID-19 with young children
Sam and Julie were so happy to hear that they could leave their apartment with their young children to take a walk around the neighborh...
Practical ways to support teens who are stressed out about school
On Sunday evening June was in the kitchen preparing dinner for her family. Her 16-year-old son, Timothy, walked into the kitchen and slumped into a chair. June looked at her son and said, “I...
Baby supplies: What you really need and what you don’t
Jennifer and Thomas were going to have their first child. Jennifer was 7 months pregnant and actively getting ready for the birth of her son. She read baby magazines, she searched onli...