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Benefits of Cooking and Eating With Your Kids

Cooking with your kids is not just about having fun, entertaining them so they’re not bored, or encouraging them to help out around the house. (Although it does all of these things!) Cooking with your children also teaches them the importance of eating foods that are healthy for their growing bodies and minds, and shows them that it’s easy (not to mention fun!) to cook food rather than throw a pre-packaged meal in the microwave. Remember, teaching them these important lessons now sets them up to maintain a healthy lifestyle later in life!

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Toddler Techies: Disconnect to Reconnect

Men have become the tools of their tools. – ThoreauLike many parents, I am trying to get my head around the confusing issues surrounding technology and kids.Questions like: Whats happening in your childs developing brain and how does technology affect that development? Is it true we are creating a new society of socially awkward children whose best friend is their iPad? Is it fact that children who play more on their tablets …

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When My Child With Autism Was Diagnosed With Cancer

This week I want to share a guest post from Jess Block Nerren. Her son has autism and was recently diagnosed with cancer. Here is her heartfelt story:Autism and pediatric cancer. Autism and Hodgkins Lymphoma. No matter how you say those two together, it sounds tough.My son Royce, 8, with autism was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma about 60 days ago, on March 3, 2014.We went to the hospital for back …