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Are Kids' Halloween Costumes Getting Too Adult? 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
We want our children to enjoy dressing up and trick-or-treating as much as possible. However, Halloween has become an increasingly adult holiday, and you can see it reflected in the costumes marketed ...
Top 10 Things to Look for in a School for a Special Needs Child 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
By Michaela Searfoorce Michaela Searfoorce, who blogs about raising a special-needs child at thefoorce.com, did an exhaustive search for a middle school for her son James, who is now 11. Here she sha...
Help for Kids Struggling With Learning 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
Wherever there is a child struggling in school, the odds are there are parents struggling to figure out how to find the most effective help for that child. Some kids find themselves falling behind th...
What Is an Educational Therapist? 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
A child who is struggling and falling behind in school is not a happy child. Kids who have learning disorders, or attention problems that make learning unusually difficult, often suffer for several ye...
When Kids Refuse to Go to School 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
The term "school refusal" used to be more or less synonymous with truancy, invoking a picture of kids hanging out on the street corner, or holed up in their bedrooms playing videogames. While it is t...
13 Ways to Boost Your Daughter's Self-Esteem 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
By Juliann Garey In a culture saturated with digitally altered images of impossibly thin women, raising girls with high self-esteem can be daunting indeed. But as parents, you have great influence—bo...
Raising Girls With Healthy Self-Esteem 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
By Juliann Garey There's really no way to sugarcoat it: Raising a confident, self-assured daughter who is comfortable with her body is not an easy thing to do these days. From the time she's a toddle...
What Role Do Sports Play in the Mental Health of Children? 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
Kids who play sports have fewer emotional and behavioral problems and are less likely to do drugs or have bad body image. The benefits are so impressive that James Hudziak, MD, Director of the Vermont...
Does Teenage Pot Use Affect IQ? 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
A recent report on a long-term study of the effects of marijuana use drew a frightening conclusion: that adolescent users could actually be shaving points off their IQs. The study was of 1,000 kids in...
Extracurriculars Without Extra Stress 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
One of the ways it's gotten more complicated to be a parent is the vast array of extracurricular activities offered to school-age children. We want our kids not only to do well academically but to dev...
