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    7 Tips to Help with Anxious Feelings
    Free to Be Mindful
    • 3 min

    7 Tips to Help with Anxious Feelings

    As we begin a new academic year, children and adults would benefit from practicing these 7 tips to help cope with anxious feelings.
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    Helping Kids Understand Personal Space
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    • 3 min

    Helping Kids Understand Personal Space

    Some kids may struggle with social cues, which may lead to challenges. Here are three tips to help kids understand personal space.
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    Engaging in Mindful Play
    Free to Be Mindful
    • 3 min

    Engaging in Mindful Play

    When kids play they're oblivious to everything going on except their play. We as adults can learn from our kids in engaging in mindful play.
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    Your Happy Heart Book Review
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    • 4 min

    Your Happy Heart Book Review

    I can genuinely say I have not read such a heartwarming, age-appropriate book about emotion regulation in quite some time, until reading...
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    12 Days (after) Christmas
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    • 5 min

    12 Days (after) Christmas

    In the days after Christmas… as parents you are probably still exhausted, the gift wrapping may still be in the garbage, and if you’re...
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    Three Easy Ways to Implement Mindful Gratitude - for yourself and your kids!
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    • 3 min

    Three Easy Ways to Implement Mindful Gratitude - for yourself and your kids!

    Thanksgiving marks the beginning to the holiday season where many seem to intentionally put family, friends and giving thanks at the...
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What Is the Right Age for a Cell Phone?
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    • 4 min

    What Is the Right Age for a Cell Phone?

    Each year it seems as though more kids have cell phones at younger and younger ages. In the world we live in today it is understood why...
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    Trick-or-TREAT for ALL... Including Kids with Special Needs
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    • 3 min

    Trick-or-TREAT for ALL... Including Kids with Special Needs

    There are many children with a variety of special needs who benefit from a level of patience from fellow trick-or-treaters and from neighbor
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    Bullying Prevention Tips
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    • 5 min

    Bullying Prevention Tips

    October is National Bullying Prevention Month. As parents, caregivers and educators we have the grand responsibility to not only keep our ki
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