Sometimes it’s a balancing act just to fit everything in … The average school-aged child is scheduled in back-to-back activities from the moment the final bell rings until the second they get to bed. While extra-curricular activities are important for social development, sometimes there is a fine line between what’s fun and what’s overwhelming. Adults…
Whitney Houston sang these words years ago, but these days, it seems more important than ever. The tragic events in Charlottesville last week have touched most of us in one way or another. One of the often most difficult, but undeniably critical pieces when something like this happens becomes, “how do we talk to kids…
We are all familiar with that text or email tone that interrupts a conversation, a thought, or even a peaceful moment of silence. For many, that tone sets of a series of actions – mainly, we stop what we are doing and divert our attention to the incoming message. In an age when nearly everyone…