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Self Check-In: Are You Overparenting?
How do you know if you’re overparenting? Here are 4 common pitfalls parents can find themselves falling into and some tips to turn these tendencies around.
How to Help Your Child Make a Movie
Not all filmmakers are adults! Here’s how to nurture your little Spielberg’s skills, from coming up with a story to filming on a smart phone.
20 Ways Kids Can Help the Community
Want to teach your kids the value of caring for the local community? Here are 20 practical suggestions for what they can do.
How To Ease Your Child’s Weather Fears
Many children have weather fears. With knowledge and preparation, kids can control their fears and come to appreciate a lot of what happens in the skies.
The Victim Mentality: Help Your Children Avoid It
Trials and tribulations are a part of life—you can’t prevent your kids from going through that. So how do you keep them from adopting a victim mentality?
What to Know About Child Abuse in a Virtual World
Since there are still a number of kids learning from a distance, how can teachers and other adults look out for abuse or neglect in a virtual world?
Help Kids Appreciate the World Without Traveling
Suitcases gathering a little dust these days? Yeah, ours too. Any travel, and especially family travel, seems daunting during the…
9 Great Stress Reducing Apps For Kids
Is your kiddo stressed out right now? Check out these nine stress reducing apps for kids that will teach them mindfulness, meditation, yoga and more.
Is Your Child Hitting These Developmental Milestones?
Learn about the goals for children at each stage of life
5 Cyber Safety Resources for Kids
As kids continue learning virtually, they’re spending a ton of time behind a screen. Because of that, cyber safety is more important than ever.
5 Ways to Help Your Child Manage Fear & Disappointment
Dr. Ken Ginsburg gives his tips for helping kids through the ongoing pandemic and building skills that will help them manage fear and disappointment.
Life Lessons: Equip Your Kids With Basic First Aid Skills
Does your kid know what to do in a medical emergency? We talked to experts about how they can learn first aid & families who’ve benefited from those skills.
27 Laws Every Texan Parent Should Know
Texas harbors a host of laws that affect you as a parent. Some may enhance your parental rights, while others could land you in jail or create other civil or criminal liabilities if not obeyed.
How To (Respectfully) Celebrate Other Holiday Traditions & Cultures
Want to teach your kids about Kwanzaa, Hanukkah or Las Posadas? Here’s how to participate in cultural celebrations the right way.
How to Raise a Voter
We spoke with the League of Women Voters of Texas and Dallas about how you can raise a future voter and support your kids’ understanding of democracy.
3 Ways to Advocate With Your Child
We spoke to the League of Women Voters of Texas—a nonpartisan organization that promotes informed involvement in government—about how you can advocate with your child.
13 Ways to Prepare Your Child for a Casting Call
The Kim Dawson Agency gave us some great tips on how to prepare your child for a future casting call—whether it’s with us or somewhere else.
Is Your Child Modeling Material?
Your child’s cute as a button, no doubt. But does he have what it takes to pose for a national…
Avoiding Playdate Pressures
How to keep your child’s playdates from stressing you out.