Category: Parenting Resources
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Are You Raising Your Children to Be Productive Adults? #RaisingAdults
My daughter turned 18 in December and is a bit behind in maturity due to her communications skills. She has a bilateral hearing loss and wears cochlear implants on both ears. She got the first one when she was 4 years old and when she got it turned on for the very first time, the…
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How to Help Our Troubled Teenagers {Infographic}
Being a teenager is often a difficult time for some children as they are trying to figure the world out. Being a teenager today is pretty stressful compared to the days when I was growing up. Back then you often dealt with face to face problems, school pressure, possibly conflicts with your parents, and we…
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Taking Care of Your Child with Asthma
Asthma symptoms and signs usually appear in children before they grow 5 years old. In young children, less than 5 years of age symptoms that are close to asthma, are developed due to various health and medical conditions. However, if the symptoms all indicate they are asthma itself then it is very important to have…
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Vital Homeschooling Tips for Teenagers
Homeschooling is a great option that many families find extremely beneficial for a number of reasons. Kids and parents alike may love home schooling in the early years of education, but as the child get older, it becomes more difficult for everyone to keep up. Homeschooling a teenager has its share of difficulties, but many…
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12 Tips to Finding the Perfect Nanny for Your Family
I remember when I was pregnant with my daughter I quit my job because we were due to move in a few months and I wasn’t ready to leave my baby girl with anyone. My daughter failed her newborn screening at the hospital and I had to take her to a bunch of appointments during…
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Student Debt – Life Sentence of Poverty for Families
Photo Credit: Raging Chicken Press A student that enters into the prison of debt will spend most of their lives, up to 35 years for many. Just paying off a student loan for an education that should of have been free and for an education that gets out dated so quickly, that just a few…
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Making Family Reunions More Memorable: How to Use File Sharing to Spread the Family Love
Remember when you were kid? There were special moments that mom or dad caught on camera. Maybe there were some embarrassing moments too. Maybe there were moments you’d like to relive again and again, but you can’t until now. Those old 8mm cameras and projectors were eventually replaced with VHS and those are now (mostly) sitting in…
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5 Best Vegetables for the Entire Family
Secret formula behind healthy life is diversity. Whichever fruit or vegetable we like to eat, that grocery alone is not enough for all our daily needs, when it comes to vitamins, minerals and proteins. This is why we need to include everything within our diet. The list includes grains, meat, milk products, fruits and vegetables.…
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7 Tips for Planning Your Own Funeral
Have you ever lost a loved one? I was 11 or 12 when I lost my great grandfather and I remember it was my very first funeral to go to. Since then, I have gone to several other funerals and missed a fair share too. My mother’s death in September of 2010, was very hard…
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6 Reasons Why Your Family History is Important to You
Learning more about your family history has a lot of benefits. According to a survey conducted in 2014, 28 percent of adults don’t feel like they know as much about their family history as they wish they did. When you learn about your own family history, it helps you to realize where you came from…