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The Importance of ADHD Awareness
Undiagnosed, untreated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can wreak havoc on your life, and it can also impact your loved ones.

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What Is Dysphoria?
While euphoria is used to describe a state of extreme happiness, dysphoria is the opposite-it’s a profound sense of unease or dissatisfactio

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How to Tell If You Are Addicted to Work
As we are all affected by the shifting economy, many of us are working harder than ever before and feeling overworked as a result.

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15 Ways to Keep Your Child from Developing an Eating Disorder
In this culture, unfortunately, many of us eat diets that aren't very healthy, and we don't get enough exercise. That's true for our kids,

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How to Help Your Kid Handle Scary News
Frightening events happen in the world every day, and grappling with them is hard for all of us. Dawn Huebner, Ph.D.,

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What Kids Learn from Your Marriage
By Jenna McCarthy Those little eyes and ears are picking up everything. Do you like what you and your husband are teaching? ...

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11 Ways to Empower Your Child Against Bullying
11 Ways to Empower Your Child Against Bullying

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Beyond Discipline for Teens
Beyond Discipline for Teens
The teen years are notoriously challenging for parents. Much like the toddler years, kids sometimes seem intent

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5 Steps To Nurture Emotional Intelligence in Your Child
So you want to raise an emotionally intelligent child and and you're wondering where to begin? Start with these five steps.

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Healthy Eating helps keep your Brain Sharp
What you put in your stomach now affects your brain later – including your ability to think, remember and process information.

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Anger Management: Is your temper hijacking your life?
Anger is a normal, healthy emotion, neither good nor bad. Like any emotion, it conveys a message, telling you that a situation is upsetting,

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Addiction, Physical Dependence, and Tolerance to Pain Medication
There is a difference between addiction, physical dependence, and tolerance to pain medication. It is imperative that each of us understand

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After-school restraint collapse is a real thing—here’s how to deal with it
There’s a reason your kid is an angel at school or daycare but a hot mess at home. It's called after-school restraint collapse. Here's how t

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5 Self-Care Practices for Every Area of Your Life
Self-care is vital for building resilience toward those stressors in life that you can't eliminate. When you've taken steps to care for your

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Teaching Children to Be Grateful
Gratitude is one of the trickiest concepts to teach toddlers and preschoolers -- who are by nature self-centered -- but one of the most....

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6 myths about autism that way too many people believe
There's a lot of misinformation circulating about autism. We asked the experts what parents really need to know to decipher fact from ....

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Sorry, parents, Apple can’t keep kids from getting addicted to phones
There's no easy fix to our addiction to phones, tech experts warn. It still remains up to parents to monitor screen time.

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Yes, your smartphone habit is affecting your kid—here's how
We've all spent countless hours lost in emails or Instagram, but experts are worried that when we're connecting online, we're connecting...

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6 Ways to Motivate Your Kids
Convincing your children to do things they don't want to do can be challenging. And making them stop doing the things you don't want them to

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How to Spot Stress and Anxiety in Children
Signs of stress and anxiety in children often show up as physical or behavioral changes.

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