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Help Your Child Avoid Summer Tantrums with These 5 Tips from Brain Balance

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Help Your Child Avoid Summer Tantrums with These 5 Tips from Brain Balance Center of Norwalk is a sponsored post. Thank you for supporting The Staten Island Family Confession time: I absolutely hate summer sometimes. I know—summer is supposed to be full of blue skies, popsicles, and sprinklers. But it can be a lot of pressure to keep the kids occupied when … [Read more...]

How do I stop my toddler from having night terrors?

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How do I stop my toddler from having night terrors? Keep reading! Every parent knows for sure how important good and peaceful sleep for their child is. They try various techniques that will help their toddler to sleep for the whole night. But sometimes even the biggest effort doesn't help – children, especially toddlers, tend to have nightmares. Why? Well, we all dream and experience night … [Read more...]

Wishes for my Daughter on her Birthday

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Wishes for my Daughter on her Birthday I am constantly reminded about the fragility of life and that every day with my daughter is a gift (even the ones where she is telling me that I am turning our house into a hoarders den).  How is it possible that my ginger is going to be 19 this month?!? My april baby, my eldest (aka my burned pancake ? )   DOES she KNOW that she is my heart … [Read more...]

Teaching our daughters the definition of real beauty

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Teaching our daughters the definition of real beauty. As a mother- I work overtime to continually counteract my daughter's negative statements with positive ones. I've also forked over a cool, $399 for new frames and spent many an early morning before she heads to school burning my fingers to a crisp straightening her hair. Yet I wonder;  perhaps working overtime attempting to help her … [Read more...]

5 Tips To Get the Family Outdoors and Unplugged

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5 Tips To Get the Family Outdoors and Unplugged Studies show that time spent on entertainment media by today's children averages more than 7 hours a day.* (*Kaiser Family Foundation  Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8-to 18-Year-Olds.) That's pretty close to every minute a child isn't in school or sleeping! Are your kids starting to look like glassy eyed zombies? Are they constantly … [Read more...]