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How the News Affects Kids

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Parents who have been paying attention to the news may find themselves experiencing a range of emotional reactions to it. What parents may not realize is that their kids may also have been reading the news. Common Sense Media has a report that gives insight into how the news affects kids. Common Sense Media is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology. They help empower parents, teachers, and policymakers by providing unbiased information, and to help them harness the power of media and technology as a positive force in all kids’ … Continue reading →

Special Needs Blog Week in Review – Week of February 5-11, 2012

Parents of children who have special needs are busy. No one ever said that being a parent would be easy, all the time, every day. You might not have had the time to check out the Special Needs blog this week. The Special Need Blog Week in Review makes it easy to find the blogs that you missed. The Special Needs Podcast Roundup went up on February 6, 2012. This week, I recommend that you check out the Hope Saves the Day podcast. The hosts had an interview with Dr. Temple Grandin. Doctors Have Different Opinions About the Mystery Illness … Continue reading →

Kids of Depressed Dads Likely to Have Emotional Problems

A study shows that children who live with a father who is depressed end up having higher rates of behavioral and emotional problems. This is the first study that has focused on depressed fathers. The results reveal the impact that fathers have in their children’s lives. A new study, which was led by Dr. Michael Weitzman at NYU’s Langone Medical Center, is the first one that documents the effects that a father’s depression has on his children. The researchers looked at a nationally representative sample that included almost 22,000 children. It was done over four years. The results showed that … Continue reading →

New hope for the depressed?

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When working with those who are chronically depressed one thing many in the field worry about is “self-medicating”. It is not unusual for those with chronic mental health problems to turn to alcohol and other drugs when they have nowhere else to turn for help. Medication can be expensive, and therapy can be difficult to get to. So when I read recently that researchers were looking to “club drugs” for possible answers to depression I can’t say that I was totally surprised. Many drugs are known to cause depression after the initial “high”, or cause depression in the first place, … Continue reading →

Fight Feelings of Hopelessness with Activity

Feeling hopeless? Maybe you’ve got the economy on your mind. Maybe it’s the crummy job market in your area, or worries about losing your job. We live in stressful times! New research from Kuopio University Hospital in Finland shows that an active lifestyle may help improve your outlook on life. Researchers interviewed nearly 2500 men between the ages of 42 and 60. Participants were asked about their mood and physical activity levels and were tested for physical fitness. The more active the men in the study were, the less likely they were to experience feelings of hopelessness. The more vigorous … Continue reading →

Tearing Down Walls and Starting New

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One of the hardest things to come to grips with before I’d truly turned my life over to God is that God was really capable of changing me. I lacked the faith He would because I’d cried out to Him and didn’t initially see anything great take place. Perhaps the reason I wasn’t seeing change in my life was because I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready to let go of my old life. Once I was ready, I was at a point where I wanted to throw everything down. This is exactly what God wanted and needed from me. Because … Continue reading →

New Homeschool Blogger Introduction

Allow me to introduce myself: I am excited about this opportunity to be able to blog for families.com and share everything I have learned as well as my daily experiences as a homeschooler with you. By knowing about my background in homeschooling and a bit about my life, I hope it will help you understand my unique viewpoint on the many aspects of homeschooling. Welcome to my world. I homeschool two “tweens” and have been doing so for four years. My daughter is 10 years old, with an outgoing personality and likes to be the center of attention. When she … Continue reading →

Transitioning Your Child to Their New Home

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How a child is transitioned is so important! There are families who feel like the transition should take as long as possible to ensure a smoother transition, and others who feel a fast transition is better, allowing the new parents to take that opportunity to comfort and soothe the child. How long a transition should take really depends on the child, and the foster family. In our first son’s case, the foster family felt they needed to say goodbye quickly for their own emotional concerns. Our son was 13 ½ months old. I think it would have been hard on … Continue reading →

Fever (Chemical Garden) by Lauren DeStefano Book Review

Young Adult Rhine finally escaped from the sinister Housemaster Vaughan, and brought her former servant and friend, Gabriel with her. They are on the run and trying to get to Manhattan to find Rhine’s brother, Rowan, and to make a new lives for themselves away from the haunting illusion of the mansion. They will never have to face the basement again, but is what is out there now even worse? Fever, the second book in the Chemical Garden series picks up exactly where the previous book, Wither, left off. Rhine and Gabriel are washing up on the shore, trying to … Continue reading →

Governor of Nebraska Doesn’t Want to Comply With ACA

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The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. Many state Governors were waiting to see what the court would decide about the ACA before they began work on their exchanges. The Governor of Nebraska, Dave Heineman, now wants to wait to see how the Presidential election turns out. It has been very interesting to see how people are reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. Some people are celebrating, others are depressed, and still others have mixed feelings about it. No matter what your personal opinion about it happens to be, it is, officially, the … Continue reading →