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Sound Advice: When Should I Give My Kid a Cell Phone?
Licensed professional counselors Reagan Vermillion and Amy Hurlburt give us their expert advice on how to determine when you give your child a cell phone.
Sound Advice: How Long Should I Breastfeed My Child?
A lactation specialist weighs in on this burning parenting question: how do you know when it’s time to stop breastfeeding?
Let’s Talk Safety: The Crimes Against Children Conference in Dallas
Tips on how to avoid dangerous situations in the physical world, as well as the online world, to keep your child out of harms way.
How To Help Your Child Cope With Homesickness At Camp
6 tips to help your kiddos have a positive camp experience
9 Things to Consider When Choosing a Camp For Your Kid
How to decide if a camp is right for your child.
4 Tips for Raising Non-Materialistic Children
Follow these strategies to teach your kids gratitude instead of greed in today’s me-me-me world.
Halloween Night Safety Tips From Local Experts
The jack o’lanterns are carved, spooky lights are strung and your little monsters have their costumes all ready. But before…
How to Relieve Discomforts of Pregnancy
“Some people say there are three genders – male, female and pregnant,” says Dawn Hallman, director of the Dallas Association…
Sound Advice: How to Overcome Stress from Bullying?
Expert Dr. Colleen Logan weighs in: how parents can help their children deal with the stress caused from bullying?
Sound Advice: How to Prep for ARD Meetings?
An expert shares how to prepare for Admission, Review and Dismissal (ARD) meeting for your child with special needs.
School Rules
Last spring, my son Chad, then a sophomore, was resigned to the fact that he wouldn’t go to college. So…
Sound Advice: How to Pick a School for Your Child with Special Needs
A special needs mom shares how to help your child with special needs find the right school for them.
Homeward Hound
Before adding a furry member to the family, there are lots of variables to consider. We asked Dr. John Harvey, a veterinarian at Cross Timber Animal Medical Clinic in Flower Mound, and renowned dog trainer Pam Martin to give us the do’s and don’ts of getting a family dog.
Mind Your Child’s Mind
Overall brain health is about more than what kids eat. When they sleep, their activity level and how secure they feel are also key contributors to their overall well-being and brain health, experts say. So parents need to help their kids find the right balance of food, activity and sleep—and make sure kids feel secure—so those developing brains function better.
How to Raise Kind, Empathetic Kids
Undoubtedly, we want to raise kind, thoughtful, compassionate kids, right? But can kindness be taught?
Is it OK to Spank Your Kids?
As many as 80 percent of parents around the world spank their children. But 50 years of research now shows spanking kids does way more harm than good.
Spying on Your Kids
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.
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