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    Raising revolutionaries: What to do when your kid wants to change the world

    Youth activism is having a moment. In March 2018, more than a million people joined the student-led March For Our Lives to support stronger gun control legislation. A year later, millions of students once again walked out of schools all over the world to participate in the Global Climate Strike for the Future. Richard West, […]
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    How to help your family survive the next Internet hoax

    “Can you kill Momo?” Those were probably not the first words a rookie school resource officer in Upstate New York expected to hear the first time he visited a classroom of third graders in late February. But it’s 2019, and the “Momo Challenge” had just gone viral. At the time of the encounter, that particular […]
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    Encouraging risk-taking in your kids

    I want my children to take more risks. I don’t mean I want my daughter to steal a car or my son to run away and join a carnival. I am talking about the healthy risks that will allow them to grow into well-adjusted, successful adults. Homo sapiens, like other primates, has an extraordinarily long […]
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Students protesting gun violence in schools

Raising revolutionaries: What to do when your kid wants to change the world

April 28, 2019 | Posted in: High School, Middle Years

Youth activism is having a moment. In March 2018, more than a million people joined the student-led March For Our Lives to support stronger gun control legislation. A year later,...

Laptop displaying the YouTube website

How to help your family survive the next Internet hoax

April 9, 2019 | Posted in: Elementary, Middle Years

“Can you kill Momo?” Those were probably not the first words a rookie school resource officer in Upstate New York expected to hear the first time he visited a classroom...

Young boy taking a leap off of a tree trunk

Encouraging risk-taking in your kids

March 14, 2019 | Posted in: Elementary, High School, Middle Years

I want my children to take more risks. I don’t mean I want my daughter to steal a car or my son to run away and join a carnival. I...

Boy sitting on the ground holding his head in grief

Grief and loss: How to help your child process life’s difficult moments

March 12, 2019 | Posted in: Early Learners, Elementary, High School, Middle Years

It’s a moment no parent wants to experience: In my daughter’s folder was a sealed letter from the principal. The words “tragedy” and “loss of life” jumped out at me,...

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Helping your child (and you!) prepare against the flu

February 21, 2019 | Posted in: Early Learners, Elementary, High School, Middle Years

It is flu season! Influenza (also known as flu) is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that infect the nose, throat, and lungs. Flu and the common cold...

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School libraries help to bridge digital divide

February 13, 2019 | Posted in: Elementary, High School, Middle Years

My love of reading was instilled in me by my mother, who is an avid reader, but my elementary school librarian was the person who opened my eyes to the...

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