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Lasting Scars: Bullying Can Have Long-Term Impact on Children
Children can experience the emotional and psychological effects of being bullied even years later.
How to Raise Spiritual Kids
While spirituality can be fostered in children through participation in organized religion, it can also be sought — and found — in less structured settings.
Sign Language vs. Cochlear Implants
Some believe that the therapies that accompany a cochlear implant emphasize the superiority of spoken language over sign language.
Peeping Mom
Monitoring children has been a hotly contested topic in recent years with the introduction of apps and software that let parents keep tabs on, well, everything their child does. Some classify this as parenting; others (like myself) look at it as an invasion of privacy that might actually do more harm than good.
Should You Let Your Kids View Disturbing Things?
Parents need to be prepared to answer questions that come up from seeing potentially violent images without minimizing or discounting kids’ concerns or fears, which may include, “Could that happen to you? To me?”
Coping with the Wandering Problem for Kids with Disabilities
Researchers found that more than 26 percent of kids ages 6 to 17 with autism, intellectual disabilities or developmental delays wandered away from a safe place in the last year.
Error of Entitlement
Jim Fay, co-author of From Innocence to Entitlement: A Love and Logic Cure for the Tragedy of Entitlement, observes that entitlement is a growing epidemic in our culture.
Hold Up
Entrance test scores show that those who delayed attending school typically performed only 1 percentage point higher in reading than their on-time peers and 4 percentage points higher in math.
Would medical first responders know how to help your child?
What would happen if a child with an intellectual or developmental disability for that matter, had a medical emergency? Would emergency personnel know how to interact with a child with sensory issues?
Present Problems
We spoke to parents, store owners and even a local psychologist to get opinions on this emerging trend.
Drink Up
We enlisted area professionals to help us weed out the hype from the hysteria as we queried: Do kids really need sports drinks?
Holding a Conversation
In the age of texts and tweets, parents are struggling to raise children with voices of their own. What you can do to raise a confident communicator.
Child Bribery: How High Are the Stakes?
The consequences of bribing your kids and how to break the cycle.
Helping Your Kids with Stress
Local experts Suzanne Stevenson, Brad Schwall, Ph.D., and Rebekah Christner talk about preventing stress and helping your children cope with it.
Embracing the We in Family
Quality family time never goes out of style. Learn how to reach out to your kids today.
Election Education for Kids? Check Yes
Forget about party lines or hanging chads – involve your kiddos in the 2008 Presidential election.
Diagnosing Sensory Integration Disorder
The identification of SID is not a black and white process; evaluation can involve multiple tests of fine motor skills, a parent interview and assessments of physical development.
Diagnosing Joey
One family shares a look into their lives with a child who has pediatric bipolar disorder.
Defining Defiance
“She was like having a child from the devil.” Imagine being so tormented by your child’s violent outbursts and belligerent…
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