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Healthy Habits: Supporting Families with Autism Spectrum Disorder During the Holidays

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For families with Autism Spectrum Disorder children, the holidays can be a complicated time. For many, the idea of gathering with friends and family is a welcome one, but they may worry about ensuring gatherings are comfortable for their ASD child. Determine what may distract your guest (i.e.,

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Smart Safety: Summer Safety for Kids

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editor, industry research for SafeHome.org , to get information about kids and safety over the summer. There are a few reasons for this: in the summer, kids play outside more. Swimming alone caused nearly 69,000 ER visits among kids last summer. I had a chance to interview Corie Wagner, sr.

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Healthy Habits: How to Promote Healthy Living for the Whole Family

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Image via Pexels Parents of children today face extra challenges when it comes to teaching their kids how to make good decisions, especially concerning their health. This article shared below by Frugal Focus will provide guidance and tips for helping kids learn to make healthy choices they can carry into adulthood.

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Enriching Education: How Families Can Make Summer a Season For Building Children’s Language, Literacy, and Learning Skills

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ASHA urges families to use the summer to nurture joy in reading and let kids be the ones who choose what they read. Don’t assume that kids only learn by reading traditional novels. Let kids design their own special place for reading. This could be a family book club, or one with neighbors or friends. Cook together.

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Parenting Pointers: 5 Reasons to Make Space for Family Dinners in 2023

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In this article, we'll focus on one impactful resolution that deserves more love: sharing more meals together as a family. While you may think it's a no-brainer why family dinners matter, we unpack some fresh insights about what makes them so valuable below. If it's not viable to eat dinner as a family every day, don't stress.

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Book Nook: Books for Kids with Autism

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As a tool, this book aims to help children, their friends, families, and caregivers understand kids with superpowers. Autism book for children, kids, boys, girls, toddlers, parents, teachers and caregivers The purpose of this book is to increase awareness, acceptance, and understanding of autism by explaining it in a special way.

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Movie Minute: Anxious Nation

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Anxious Nation, a new documentary that takes a deep look into the crisis of anxiety and mental health in America, especially its crippling impact on kids and families, will host a worldwide, premiere livestream event on May 3, 2023. As a family, we needed hope and strategies that reinforced progress over permanence.

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