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| What to expect from your “tween” |
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| Teach Your Child to Make Good Food Choices |
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| Want your child to make good decisions when it comes to what to eat? To ensure the best results, take a look at your diet and make sure you’re setting a good example. Eat what you’d like your child to eat, and stock up on nutritious items at the grocery store. The less junk you have in your home, the less likely your child is to give in to temptation. Here are some pointers to consider.... more |
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| Ages 8-12: Sleep Crucial for Pre-Teens |
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| Sleep is crucial to your child’s health and well being. Like diet and exercise, sleep needs change with age. Children between the ages of 8 and 12 need 10 to 11 hours of sleep a night. ... more |
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| Summer is Perfect for Starting Chores |
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| School’s out and the homework is done. What better time to enlist your pre-teen in helping out with some chores? But what’s appropriate for a child at this age? Don’t worry. There’s a lot kids can lend a hand to. Try one (or more if you can get away with it) of these ideas:... more |
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| How to Handle a First Crush |
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| By the time your child reaches his or her ninth birthday, it’s prime time to start noticing members of the opposite sex in a whole new way, which means you may be soon be hearing about his or her first crush. How should you handle the news? Dr. Michelle Borba, a mom and educational psychologist, offers the following tips:
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| Keep Winter Play Safe |
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| Winter is a time when children look to dig out the sled and snowsuit and head outdoors. While their minds are filled with images of snowmen and snow angles, parents should keep some safety tips from the American Academy of Pediatrics in mind when their children are participating in outdoor activities.... more |
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| Childhood Obesity: Prevention is Key |
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| With physical education classes disappearing in schools and fast-food being the meal of choice for many children and teens, it is no wonder childhood obesity is on the rise. Unfortunately, the longer parents wait to become proactive about a weight problem affecting their child, the harder the problem will be to stop, and ultimately, reverse. ... more |
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| Taking Charge |
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| Responsibility can be something kids both love and hate. They want to be trusted, but they don't always want to put in the time to really be "in charge" of a task. However, there is an in-between, and this age stage can be perfect to introduce a more complicated family project that your child can have a major hand in – and, with the help of his or her parents and siblings, learn how important it is to protect the environment.
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| Mom, I'm so ugly! |
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| Just before Arlene English’s daughter, Jaylene, started high school she got her first real breakout. “Jaylene became obsessed with skincare products and make-up. She was so concerned with how ugly she looked that she didn’t want to go to school,” recalls English. Insecurity about appearance is common for boys and girls in the preteen years, says child psychologist Cassandra White. “Lots of kids have some kind of issue from acne to their height to being too heavy or too skinny,” she says.... more |
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| Conquering the Cliques
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| Your daughter comes home crying because the girls she’s been friends with are suddenly leaving her out and spreading rumors.... more |
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| Math & Music Whiz -- Brian Chung |
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| It’s quite an accomplishment for a high school senior to get every question right on the Scholastic Aptitude Test’s math section. That feat is even more impressive for someone who’s only 13.... more |
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| Cellular Development |
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| In a poll released last month by HighlightsParents.com, parents reported their conflicted feelings about kids and cell phones.... more |
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| Got a Stinky Tween? |
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| It might be unfair, or an over exaggeration, but boys are not often thought of as eager to jump into the bath tub.... more |
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