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Summer Slide No More: Tips to Help Your Child Avoid Learning Loss
While summer break is a good time for students to relax, it is important to use that time as a chance to catch up...
Five Ways Parents and Caregivers Can Support Teachers
With a new school year upon us, many families are thinking about back-to-school shopping, helping their kids adjust to a new classroom and fitting...
Dear Parent, from a Teacher: Transitioning from Summer Break to School
Everyone has something they love about summer — whether it’s the family vacations, lack of schedule, sleeping in, or endless pool days. Everyone can...
Dear Parent, From a Teacher: 6 Tips for a Smooth Start to the School...
We all know being a teacher is a lot of work that has many different aspects to it. I could list them for you,...
More Than a Boo-Boo: What to Look For When It Comes to Childhood Sepsis
Each year more than 3 million children around the world die from sepsis, the body's overwhelming response to an infection or injury, making it...
How to Talk to Your Kids About a Hurricane
I live a busy life. I work for First Coast News. My job changes every day. I report, I anchor, I do traffic, and...
Are You Properly Prepared for a Hurricane?
Unfortunately, it is all too common following a hurricane to think of some really great things you wish you had bought… and planned on...
Our Parents Were Nuts
Eight cringe-worthy tactics our parents used that now seem nuts
It’s no secret that parenting styles have changed over the course of a generation. We...
How Our Teenage Son Became A Man
In the middle of the night, I hear our oldest son, Garrett, 15, scramble into the bathroom. I worry he is not sleeping. He’s...
One Teenage Boy Gives Another Some Perspective
Perspective is something people talk about when they are able to see their circumstances through a different lens. We were given that gift when...
Healthy Recipes and How They Changed Our Lives
One fall day, in 2009, my phone rang. “Are you sitting down?” the caller asked.
I was told my one-year-old daughter was allergic to wheat,...
Beyond the PB&J: Healthy Lunch Ideas for Kids
I’ll never forget a funny photo I saw a year or two ago. It was two parents sitting in lawn chairs at the end...