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Help Your Teen Learn How to Communicate

When it comes to “adulting” people often think of skills like cooking and financial literacy, but they don’t always think

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Teaching Social and Emotional Skills at Home

What is Social Emotional Learning? The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) identifies the five core social emotional

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Use Brain Breaks to Help Your Kids Recharge and Refocus

Are your young learners sitting in front of a computer screen multiple hours a day as part of remote learning?

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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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