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The Effects of Academic Parental Pressure on Kids

As a parent, there are few pleasures greater than your child succeeding at school. However, if you put too much academic parental pressure on kids to do well, it can backfire severely and end up affecting them negatively in a number of different ways. Albert Einstein once said, "Education is what remains after one has…

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What is Tay-Sachs Disease?

Hearing the words "progressive degenerative genetic neurological disorder" is a shot to the heart.  That's exactly what I felt like had happened.  I had been fatally wounded, and I hadn't even seen the sniper.  Being told by a (now, in my mind) nameless faceless doctor that my seemingly otherwise healthy ten-month old daughter was terminally ill…