Some children are inherently timid and others are born risk takers.
But what about the kid who runs headlong into their peer at top
speed as they are racing towards the play structure and when they
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It’s probably been quite some time, but something I enjoy referring
to (and reporting back to everyone here at DailyStrength about) are
the clinical practice guidelines from the American Academy of
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Every well child care visit (AKA physical) I have with toddlers and
even on up to the teenagers, I spend a few minutes discussing
screen time. And with screen time, I’m referring to television
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The word romance seems almost outdated, as though it belongs to a
Shakespearean sonnet. And when we think of teenagers in the context
of relationships, instead of romance, we typically think that
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The teen years can be hard on everyone from the kids, male or
female, to the parents. We’ve all been there and if we’re honest
with ourselves we can remember feeling as if we knew everything and
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So hopefully you’ve read my blogs on influenza (AKA the “flu”) and
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) over the past month. Just to
reemphasize, it’s been an overwhelming season for both of ... Read More »
Not sure if this caught anyone else’s eye in the past 2 weeks but
since I feel it goes a bit too far in the name of protecting your
child’s health, I’d like to share the specifics of this story
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Last week, I heard Michael Thompson Ph.D., author of the New York
Times best seller “Raising Cain: Protecting The Emotional Life of
Boys,” speak about the development of friendships among ... Read More »
Let me start by saying that I admittedly sort of dread the ritual
of facilitating the process of my daughter’s preparation of all
those little Valentine’s Day cards that will be passed out to
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