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Top 10 Training Techniques to Improve Dog Behavior

Dog training can create a better life for dogs. Is your family new to a dog's presence, or is its training the source of the problem?  Either way, this is the reach of the top 10 dog training techniques that can be tailored from the basics to the pros.  The tricks are reliable. If you…

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Legislators: Our Tools For Change

Back in the first few weeks of June, as the #BlackLivesMatter movement ebbed and flowed through social media and spilled out onto the streets in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, my head began to spin with a combination of shame and confusion. I’m a white woman with immense privilege and all the…

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What an Autism Parent Notices

What an Autism Parent Notices   This happens to me all the time. (I’ll assume this also happens to lots of AutParents.) I’m in a breakfast room at a hotel. I get up to get a spoon and I notice this seven or eight-year-old boy organizing the salt and pepper packets in the container. He’s…

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How Concerned Should We Be About Our Teens

I am raising three teenagers. Their behavior frustrates me. The risks they take terrify me. But a new Federal survey conducted among 50,000 teenagers shows that I’m dead wrong to be so amped up. Because today’s teens are actually far more mature and responsible than I was at their age. Here’s the good news for…