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The Five Best Things You Can Do for Your Kids in the New Year

This time of year reminds me of kayaking toward a waterfall. As the New Year kicks off, things start to

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Celebrating Kwanzaa as a Family: How We Incorporate Kwanzaa in our Holiday Traditions

The holiday season is a time for celebrating traditions and sharing those traditions with family and friends. Our most significant

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10 Ways to Get—and Keep—Conversations Going with Teens

Sometimes it’s harder to communicate with teenagers than it would be to fry an egg on the sidewalk in Minnesota

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How to Build Your Child’s Social and Emotional Skills

You know that reading with your child can help boost their literacy skills, but you might be stumped on ways

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Help Your Child Through Communication Challenges in Distant Learning

Attending classes and learning remotely is a new normal for our children. This has come with new challenges as your

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How to Combat Screen Fatigue in a Virtual Learning Environment

With many children engaged in four or more hours of online learning each day due to the COVID-19 pandemic, screen

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How to Answer the “What Ifs” When Your Child Struggles

If two months ago someone had asked me to sum up my feelings about the approaching school year, I can

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Start Parenting Outside the Lines

When the pandemic hit, my social media became flooded with memes. A few personal favorites: “Coronavirus Parenting Week 1: Mary

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Questions Every Parent Should Ask Themselves

The Washington Post Parenting Expert, Meghan Leahy, is a mom of three school-aged girls and a parenting coach. Like her

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Set Up Your Workspace for Success

When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the U.S., many employers changed their business policies to allow employees to work from

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