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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 and avoid the “summer slide.” Every year, students lose several...
Simple Dinner Solutions: Tips and Recipes For Those Busy Weeknights
We’ve all been there. Work was busy, kids had afterschool soccer, you got caught in the driveway with the chatty neighbor, and before you know it, you hear the dreaded, "Mom, what’s for dinner?...
How Should We React When Our Gifted, Creative, and High-Performer Kids Disappoint Us?
Most of us are aware of a movie star who catastrophically shocked us recently this year by engaging in an act of physical aggression at a popular awards ceremony. Very few could have predicted...
Springtime Fun: Easy Tips for Gardening with Kids
Spring seems to have finally taken hold in Northeast Florida, and everywhere you look, trees and plants are sprouting new growth and coming back to life. For a region that doesn’t experience a dramatic...
Let’s Stop Normalizing Painful Periods
I’ve likely had endometriosis most of my life but didn’t know it. I remember having painful cramps, leg pains, and heavy periods as a teenager that caused me to miss school and extracurricular activities....
The Mom Manual I Never Knew I Needed
The Mom Manual I never knew I needed wouldn’t contain a list of baby registry must-haves or a training session on sleeping through the night. I used to joke about needing a manual to...
Eating Disorders: Smashing the Shame Stigma
“I think my child has an eating disorder.”
Just this week, I’ve talked to multiple Jacksonville moms with children experiencing eating disorders. Each mother and father explain in detail the distress their child and family...
New Year, Same Stress: Tips for Tackling School-Related Stress
Hopefully, the holiday break allowed us all to catch a moment or two of relaxation and peace.
As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who works with gifted, creative, and high-performing kids, I enjoyed listening to...
Finding the Beauty Amongst the Thorns of Parenting a Medically Complex Child
When you were pregnant, were you worried that your baby might have special needs? I was. Were you relieved when you found out that your baby would be typical? I was. Well, for many...
Charity Spotlight: The Villages of Hope
The Villages of Hope (VOH) started as a vision and dream to help female victims of sex trafficking. I started by visiting programs all over the country for inspiration and decided on using the...
Yikes! So, You’re Planning a Home Birth?
I was a nervous wreck when my wife shared with me that our next baby would be a planned home birth.
My first thought was that something is going to go terribly wrong, and we...
An Out-of-This-World Approach to Learning
As a parent, we hope our children get a well-rounded education. The importance of children developing academically, socially, emotionally, and physically are all parts of that hope. We hope they play outside. We hope...