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Lessons Learned After Losing Power for 5 Days

A few weeks ago, my neighborhood was hit by a huge storm. There was damage to our home, which resulted in us being without power for five days (among other

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Podcast Episode #35: Helicopter Parenting

What does it mean to be a helicopter parent — and what does that look like at different ages and stages? Licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Geoffrey Putt joins host Miriam Conner on the latest episode of aParently Speaking to answer those questions and more. ...
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Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center Parent Tip of the Week

How to Communicate with Your Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child

Communicating with your deaf or hard of hearing child is extremely important. The key to your child's language development and learning success is using two-way communication — interacting with your child and encouraging your child to interact with you. ...
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Behavior Management Strategies & Advocating for Your Child with Special Needs

Classroom disruptions cost students and teachers valuable instructional time. To address issues before they happen, public schools in Ohio are now required to adopt policies and procedures for Positive Behavioral

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How to Ease Back-to-School Anxiety

Getting back into the groove for a new school year can be tough for the whole family. Switching gears, changing bed times, meeting new teachers, socializing with different classmates… the

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25 Learning Activities to Do in the First Year of Preschool

Sending your child to preschool is one of the first steps to starting their education. Ohio’s Early Learning & Development Standards, for children ages 3-5, focus on five domains: approaches

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How Kids’ Personalities Affect Behavior

Personality traits like talkativeness and adaptability are hardwired. This is according to the study titled “On the Contextual Independence of Personality,” conducted at the University of California at Riverside. Christopher

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Podcast Episode #34: Hollie Strano on Being a Mom

WKYC Cleveland’s Hollie Strano joins host Miriam Conner on the latest episode of aParently Speaking. Listen as she tells us about her favorite job: being a mom. Hollie shares stories of her personal life with her two children, including her parenting style, how she deals with social media, her favorite traditions and more.  ...
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Finding Time for You in the Back-to-School Season

Recently, I had been feeling so exhausted that as soon as I sat down on my couch I was falling asleep, even though I didn’t mean to. Things that didn’t

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Local Families Beat Childhood Cancer, Celebrate with Make-A-Wish Trips

Fewer things are more frightening than hearing that your child has cancer. For two Northeast Ohio families whose children fought and survived cancer, the devastating diagnoses brought them together and

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