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Website Spotlight: Wee Lions

Motherhood Moments

Parents receive support and guidance through blog posts, actionable tips, and webinars that address finding the right time to learn, asking questions, or getting their children motivated to read.

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Parenting Pointers: Tips for a Screen-Free Holiday

Motherhood Moments

Spice Up Mealtime Convo Make family dinnertime more interesting with conversation starters and leave your screens off the table. Motivational Interview Activity Motivational interviews are conversations that can help children understand their own motivations for change.

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Parenting Pointers: Helping Our Teens

Motherhood Moments

“The idea is to offer research-based insights and guidance to equip not just parents but also educators and students to start a different conversation in their own lives,” says Magee. “If Hold regular conversations to normalize how teens are feeling. Too many parents preach or hold one-sided conversations with our children.

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Parenting Pointers - What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Children on Social Media

Motherhood Moments

Have age-appropriate conversations with your children about the risks, such as cyberbullying, mental health disorders, and solicitations from online drug dealers,” advises Magee. Help them check their privacy settings so their information is not public. Don’t preach. But do talk to your children about the dangers of social media.

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Anatomy of the Financially Savvy Brain- Part 4

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It is also responsible for processing concepts of motivation and reward. When the limbic system interprets sensory information and dispatches it to the cortex for processing, it sets the emotional tone of the information before its reaches the cortex. Conversely, prolonged emotional distress can cripple our ability to learn.

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My Favorite Running App | Weeks 6 & 7 of 10 Weeks to a Half Marathon

Family Balance Sheet

At the end of your run, the app syncs with your Nike + account and stores all of your information for you to over-analyze or ignore. Saturday 6 miles, run at conversational pace. Sunday - 10 miles, run at conversational pace. Saturday - 12 miles at conversational pace. Really bad! Thursday - 3 miles, easy pace.

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Finding Discount Codes and Why You Should Use Coupons

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Either way, an online discount code aims to increase conversions and grow consumer delight through special exclusive offerings reserved solely for savvy bargain hunters in the know. Exclusivity keeps motivation high for perpetual deal hunting too. Feel special benefitting before the masses thanks to insider status!