Setting up a youth running club requires very little equipment and doesn’t have to cost anything. Expect to spend a few hours on initial set-up then a few hours a week to run or walk with the kids who join. This duty may be shared among several parent and teacher chaperones. You might decide to join up with a national or regional organization (such as Girls on the Run or Just Run) or create your own club....
Know that this is a very common concern—even for many tweens and teens, too. Learn how to stay connected to your tween or teen, while also giving them the space they need to grow. The Parent-Tween/Teen Dynamic As kids enter their tween and teen years, they often begin to shift their focus from their parents or caregivers to their friends. Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that your kids no longer love their family—they just want to explore the larger world and their relationships with their peers, too....
“They wanted to know why we were bringing everything inside and filling the tub with water,” Jenna says. “I told them there is a very big storm coming that we need to be ready for, but you don’t need to be afraid because we are safe.” Hurricane Ian, one of the strongest to ever hit the United States, is the first hurricane the family has seen since their older daughter was born five years ago....
Tips for Talking About Puberty With Your Disabled Child Here are some tips to help you navigate the conversations you will have as their bodies change. Start the Conversation Early While having conversations about puberty can seem overwhelming at times, you need to be sure you are having them sooner rather than later. Do not wait until your child is in the throes of teenage hormones and body changes to start having conversations about puberty....
Overview As a parent, it is often difficult to discern when language skills are developing normally and when a child might need some outside help. Multiples tend to experience a higher rate of speech and language development delays. Many factors contribute to a speech and/or language delay in multiples. Benchmarks According to a study published in 2019, most twins outgrow these language issues by 5 years of age. However, these general guidelines can help you determine if your child could be experiencing a delay: Between 12-24 months, your children should:...
Part B of IDEA, which covers the education of children ages 3-21, mandates that a child’s disability must be taken into account if they are removed from regular classes due to behavioral misconduct, but only under certain circumstances. The IDEA rules regarding behavioral misconduct in children with disabilities, as well as the limit placed on how many days they may be removed from class due to misconduct, are a bit complicated....
Overview The literal meaning of the phrase in vitro is “within the glass.” It is a Latin term, which more generally refers to anything occurring in a laboratory setting. This is the opposite of in vivo, which means within the body (or literally, “within the living”). Today, IVF is a mainstream—albeit expensive—fertility treatment. Less than 5% of fertility patients requires IVF. An estimated 8 million IVF-conceived babies have been born around the world....
Instead, help your kids see the array of occupations that are related to each of their intelligence areas. The best way to do this is by having adults talk with your kids about their career choices and by going on lots of field trips. Then children can begin making their own decisions about what feels right. Of course, virtually every job consists of a variety of responsibilities that touch on several intelligences....
Check With Your Local Group for Their Rules Typically, preschool soccer leagues start accepting children around age 3 or 4 but check with your local group to find out how they operate. Some leagues play in the spring or the fall, while many do both. Depending on the league, you’ll need to get a uniform (shirt, shorts, and socks), a soccer ball (preschoolers usually play with a lighter, smaller ball), shin guards and cleats (although many leagues allow children to play wearing sneakers)....
In fact, significant research points to the profound mind-body benefits (from stress relief to flexibility) yoga offers. Listen to Your Body Long before any outward manifestation of pregnancy begins to get in the way of doing poses, your body may begin to feel different on the inside. Yoga can help you tune in to your body. You may think you know yourself and what your body can do, but yoga teaches you to respect the cues your body gives you, an attitude that can help you prepare for listening to your body during childbirth....
More: 8 Things Your Newborn Will Do That Might Surprise You Proper Halloween etiquette indicates no. It would be considered rude to take your little one out trick or treating and expect families to give you candy that they know your baby is too young to eat. Showing off your baby is fine, or dressing your baby up while you stay home and hand out candy to the neighborhood kids....
In December 2022, the FDA expanded the use of bivalent boosters to children between 6 months and 4 years old, either two months after they have completed their primary series of vaccinations (Moderna) or as the third dose in their primary series (Pfizer). Even so, some people have safety concerns and worry that people who’ve been vaccinated could transmit the virus. However, kids cannot get COVID-19 from someone who is vaccinated just because the vaccinated person got the shot (the vaccine itself does not cause recipients to shed the virus)....
The History of Pride Month The Stonewall Riots in New York City were a huge point in history for the gay rights movement. The police raided a gay bar at Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969. This led to the violent protests that occurred for 6 days right outside that bar. Of course, this wasn’t the first or last raid as it was illegal in New York City to solicit sexual relations between anyone of the same sex....
She thought that by raising a physically healthy and academically advanced child, she was doing all the right things. But now she knows her focus was always on the “wrong” things, which made Zimo struggle. “I had many unrealistic expectations for him. He was unhappy, not confident. It brought me frustration, as well,” she explains. Li did what any mother would do: she consulted the internet. But she didn’t like what she found....
What Kids Should Learn about Listening and Speaking The oral aspects of language continue to be seen as important. Children listen to more stories, but the stories are also more complex and feature greater intensity of human feeling. First grade children also expand their vocabularies; do more retelling of the stories they hear (this helps them to understand the stories’ logic in terms of beginnings, middle, and ends); identify rhyming patterns; create mental images of what they hear and describe these images; discriminate more fully among sounds; discuss differences in intensity of words and sounds; speak about their ideas; take part in conversations and discussions; learn to take messages and pass them on; and learn an increasing array of nursery rhymes, poems, chants, and songs, with many opportunities to “perform” what they have learned....
Risks Facing Gay Teens The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) stresses that sexual orientation is not a mental disorder, and that the causes of homosexuality are not fully understood. Furthermore, a person’s sexual orientation is not a matter of choice, and attempts to change it may be harmful. However, the AACAP identifies a number of concerns for gay teens, including: Feeling different from peers. Feeling guilty about their sexual orientation....
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Incorrectly installed landscaping. Foundation beds should follow the original grade of site, not slope toward the house. Soil compaction. The soil used to back-fill around foundations settles over the years. As it does, grading can flatten or even begin to slope toward the foundation. Soil erosion. Wind and water can cause soil erosion, also resulting in flat or negative grades. It’s easy to check the grade around your house. You’ll need a level and a flat, straight piece of thin plywood or metal that won’t sag....
Selecting the right over-the-counter medicine for your child’s cold or flu can be tricky. Especially since there’s more than 30 different combination formulas, an array of unpronounceable ingredients, and confusing similarities between store and brand name products. How do you choose? “Stick to single ingredient products whenever possible, and limit medication to the one that will relieve the symptom that troubles your child most,” says Ralph Kauffman, MD., professor of pediatrics and pharmacology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City....
And while there are many factors involving the female reproductive system that could lead to pregnancy challenges, it is important to note that male infertility is a factor in 40-50% of all couples who are having trouble conceiving. “We recommend male [fertility] assessment if a couple has been trying to get pregnant for a year,” says Jennifer Knudtson, MD, an OB/GYN and reproductive endocrinologist with AspireFertility in San Antonio, Texas....
