Immunization Awareness Month is upon us which means we wake up the sleeping beast: the debate for and against vaccination. There’s a lot of hot feeling on either side of the debate which is only natural. These are our children we’re talking about and their lives are in our hands. As parents, it’s our duty […]
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Summer Learning Loss: Stop the Leak!
Summer learning loss, also called summer slide or summer learning leak is what happens over summer vacation when kids stop going to school. During the summer, kids forget what they learned during the school year. Avoiding summer slide should be every parent’s goal going into the long summer vacation. When children are in school, they […]
Drama Therapy and Your Child
Drama therapy is a form of treatment that uses playacting to explore feelings in a safe environment. In drama therapy, participants may use storytelling, improvisation, and performance to solve problems, vent feelings, or work toward emotional goals. Drama therapy can succeed where other forms of therapy fail, because first of all, it’s fun. Second of all, […]
Homesickness: A Guide
Homesickness is painful; perhaps even more so when you’re the parent of a homesick child who’s off to summer camp. The feeling of helplessness, of not knowing what to do, can be a bit overwhelming. Do you bring your child home? Force him/her to stick it out for the duration, and feel like just about […]
3 Cool Kid-Friendly Treats to Make and Eat
It’s summer, the kids are home, and they are BORED STIFF. A month ago you had all these amazing resolutions of all the things you’d do together, the quality time you’d have, the bonding, the learning. And now? It’s hot. They’re cranky. And you’ve had just about enough of summer. But! Summer is completely impervious […]
Nutrient Dense Diet: The New Old Way to Eat
Nutrient dense diet tips flood the web. It’s the new way to eat. But actually, it’s the old way to eat. It’s how people ate in the days before sodium-laden, sugar-laden, fat-heavy processed foods. And it’s how we’d eat now if we weren’t so lazy. The nutrient dense diet is simple, and as a matter […]
Stocking Your Basic First Aid Kit
Basic first aid kit items are just what they sound like: basic. You don’t want to discover you’ve run out of Bandaids when your child gets a scrape or minor burn. You want to be ready with everything you need. And let’s face it, accidents happen. Kids fall down or get cuts and scrapes. Especially […]