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  • Puzzles and What They Are Actually Teaching Your Child: A Developmental Guide
    Educational Toys

    Puzzles and What They Are Actually Teaching Your Child: A Developmental Guide

    Puzzles give children opportunities to compare shapes, turn pieces, try strategies, and talk through a shared problem. The most useful…

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  • Managing Anxiety in Children With Special Needs
    Special Needs

    Managing Anxiety in Children With Special Needs: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why Standard Advice Often Misses the Mark

    The therapist had given the family a breathing technique. It was a good breathing technique — the kind that is…

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  • Your Teenager and Social Media
    Teen Parenting

    Your Teenager and Social Media: What to Actually Worry About and What to Let Go

    The conversation happens in almost every family at some point. The parent has read something — an article, a study,…

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  • Your Child's Dental Health
    Child Health

    Your Child’s Dental Health: What Most Parents Get Wrong and Why It Matters More Than They Think

    A child I worked with — eight years old, bright, socially engaged — had been missing school with some regularity….

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  • The Preschool years
    Early Childhood

    The Preschool Years Are Not About Getting Ready for School: What Children Actually Need Between Three and Five

    I have spent a significant portion of my professional life in schools. I have observed hundreds of children making the…

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  • Raising Children Without Plastic: What Is Realistic, What Is Not, and Where the Impact Actually Is
    Eco Parenting

    Raising Children Without Plastic: What Is Realistic, What Is Not, and Where the Impact Actually Is

    The photograph made the rounds on social media for months. A family’s weekly shop, laid out on the kitchen table,…

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  • Play With Your Child
    Educational Toys

    Play With Your Child: Why Twenty Minutes a Day Changes Everything

    There is a kind of playing with children that most parents do regularly. Supervising play. Facilitating play. Being nearby while…

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  • Raising a Child With Autism
    Special Needs

    Raising a Child With Autism: What the First Year After Diagnosis Actually Looks Like

    Nobody warns you about the second week. The diagnosis arrives, and there is a period — sometimes hours, sometimes a…

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  • Teenager and Sleep
    Teen Parenting

    Your Teenager and Sleep: The Science Behind Why They Can’t Wake Up and What You Can Actually Do About It

    Most teenagers aged 13–18 need 8–10 hours of sleep in each 24-hour period. If mornings are a daily struggle, begin…

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  • Your Child Has a Healthy Weight — or Does It?
    Child Health

    Your Child Has a Healthy Weight — or Does It? How to Think About Children’s Weight Without Creating a Problem

    The nurse plotted the measurement on the growth chart and said something that stayed with the parent for months. Not…

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