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Managing Childhood Anxiety
Anxiety is a nervous disorder characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive behavior or panic attacks. For many people feelings of anxiety are fleeting, but for others anxiety is a constant state that can get so...
How to Bully-Proof Your Children
With our kids heading back to school this month one topic on the minds of many parents is bullying. No one wants to think about their child being bullied, but alas it is a reality we must prepare our children for. Here are a few things you can do to bully-proof your...
Coping with Divorce – The Adult Edition
A while back we posted about helping kids cope with divorce. If you haven’t seen that post you can check it out here, but today mom and dad, we want to check in with you. Whether it’s amicable or volatile, coping with divorce can be difficult on the adults involved....
Finding a Balance in Parenting
For most people parenting is a full time job, but I would caution you to make sure that you find a healthy balance in taking care of your kids and taking care of yourself. There is a saying that “You can’t give from an empty cup” and too often parents sacrifice...
Keep up Physical Activity All Year Long
There’s a funny thing that happens when we let our bodies become inactive. Our muscles weaken, fat appears out of nowhere and suddenly becoming active again feels incredibly hard to do. We have merely days before school starts up again, but for the rest of this...
We are currently collecting school supplies to help Joshua House
It's that time of year again -- time to start getting ready for back to school. Be sure to swing by our office during business hours Monday through Thursday, where we will be collecting school supplies for Joshua House. Joshua House is a residential facility for...
Encouraging your kid to get a summer job
We’re a little more than half way through the summer, but there is still time to consider a summer job for older kids. When should you start encouraging your kids to get a summer job though? What about during the school year? Hopefully this post will help answer these...
Mentally preparing to go off to college
During the summer time many students are enjoying the break from school. The freedom of not having daily assignments and weekly quizzes can be so exciting. However, for older kids that have just graduated from high school the summer time is like a ticking clock to the...
Curing Those Summer Time Blues
Kids wait all school year for that glorious 10 to 12 week break known as the summer time, but for a lot of kids, after just a few weeks in they experience the summer time blues. The summer time blues can mean different things for different kids, but for the most part...
Congrats to Stephanie Doudounis and Ashley Tirado
A special congratulations to Stephanie Doudounis, M.A. and Ashley Tirado, M.A. for helping to present at the Early Childhood Council conference in June 2015. We are so proud that they helped to educate the community about postpartum depression and its effects on...