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In New York, Concrete Jungle Where Dreams Are Made Of, There’s Nothing You Can’t Do, Now You’r

Im baaaack ladies! As you all know, I had my girls getaway last week, and then totally checked out over the weekend to spend some quality time with family and friends. So, its Monday morning, I got my ass back to the gym (thank god), and Im now Im in my office, with my coffee, recalling some of my funniest moments of the past few years.

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5 Ways To Teach Your Kids To Be Thankful This Thanksgiving

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. – CiceroGratitude – or a lack thereof – is something all parents encounter during the process of raising children. At some point or other, what mother hasn’t looked on with horror as her child blurted out a variant of, I dont like this! Its not what I wanted for my birthday! or worried that her kids took …

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More on Autistic Empathy

Sometimes my child doesn’t succeed at understanding the feelings of others, than there are those times when I believe he’s beginning to get it. A recent incident involved a bunch of teenagers and a Smash Bros. game. What happened? One of the teens can’t play this popular Smash Bros game because this teen gets over…

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An Autism-related Puzzle

Here’s the puzzle, friends of ours are having issues with their child with autism (a teenager). First piece of the puzzle - For the last two or three years, their child would take a sweater to school and many times it wouldn’t come home. One time, they confirmed that a class bully had taken one…