Parenting Tips
As a parent or guardian of young children who are usually at school, you may be wondering how to keep them busy during days with little daylight and cold, damp weather. Here are some ways to help your child continue to develop their fine and gross motor skills, problem solving skills, and get out some energy to help them stay on their usual sleep schedule. All while bonding as a family!
October is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) awareness month. If you, like me, were in school in the ‘90s you may think of ADHD, or its predecessor Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD) as primarily appearing in unruly young boys who couldn’t sit still. Growing up, I was probably the opposite of that, an academically-inclined girl who would rather curl up with a book than play outside. Still, in my late 20s I was diagnosed with ADHD and I had to re-evaluate many assumptions I had.
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