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Read Together With Your Baby

Imagine sitting your baby in your lap and reading a book to him for the first time.How different from just talking! Now you're showing him pictures. You point to them.In a lively way, you explain what the pictures are. You've just helped y...

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Advocating for Your Child with LD

Advocate: you've probably heard the term before. But what does it mean to you?Advocating happens when you speak on behalf of someone else. You say for them what they can't say for themselves.When you have a child who has been diagnosed with...

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6 Ideas to Teach Children to Give of Themselves

During this season of shopping, wrapping and opening gifts, it is worthwhile to take some time to remind children that giving of themselves is the most important. Try these ideas to make your holiday season more meaningful for your family: 1. Family...

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A Birth Injury Can Affect A Child Throughout Her Life

Any parent's greatest fear is undoubtedly the permanent injury and disability of their child. It's a scenario that doubtless keeps many a parent up at night. So it's difficult to imagine the mental anguish and suffering that a parent g...

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Enticing Your Kids Outside with Garden Toys

With childhood obesity becoming a growing problem, especially within western communities, getting the children to be active is the concern of many parents. When we are up against television shows, the latest consoles and games this often seems like a...

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Thanksgiving Day Memories

It's Thanksgiving morning, 2007, and before I start wailing about what isn't right in my life, I think I should give thanks for what is right. First of all, of course, would be my husband, children and their children, without whom life woul...

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How To Keep Your Kid'S Brain Healthy

To Keep Your Kid'S Brain Healthy by: News Canada (NC)-According to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, approximately one in five children between the ages of four and 16 have a diagnosable psychiatric disorder. If untreated, such co...

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Protecting Your Child’s Innocence

Protecting Your Child’s Innocence by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. We love our children and we want them to be safe – safe from people who could harm them and destroy their innocence. At the same time we don’t want to scare them and perhaps create...

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Writing from Home: It Can Be Great and Not-So-Great for Mothers

Writing from Home: It Can Be Great and Not-So-Great for Mothers by: Sarah SmileyI went to school to be a teacher. In fact, I have a B.S. in Education, not journalism.Due to the hours and holidays, teaching is traditionally thought to be the best...

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Let's Go Shopping at Yard Sales!

In some areas they are mostly called garage sales, or rummage sales. Sometimes they are called yardsales. In Britain, I believe they have what they call"car-boot" sales.Whatever the name, it is a fun part of a frugallifestyle. Here are some of the wa...

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