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Suggested Daily Caloric Intake for Weight Loss

Weight loss plans, fad diets and supplements all offer solutions to weight loss. The simple truth is that weight loss requires eating fewer calories than you burn. Unfortunately, that simple truth requires some confusing calculations and a bit of a balancing act to make sure you are eating enough calories, but not too many.

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Parents: Just Because We Can Doesn’t Mean That We Should

A few weeks ago, during a conversation about the ways in which technology has infiltrated our lives, someone suggested that I watch a particular episode of Black Mirror, the Netflix series that is billed as the updated version of The Twilight Zone. In the episode, a mom, frightened when her preschool daughter wanders off from…

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Are Children with Autism Singled Out?

Are Children with Autism Singled Out?   Why do I ask this question? Because of what happened at my son’s school just this past Friday. Why is this past Friday important? Because this past Friday was only a few short days after the latest awful school tragedy, this one in Parkland, Florida. In this version…

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Autism and Learning a Foreign Language

Big time advice coming… A few times, when my son with autism was younger, I said to myself, “I should really get him into some kind of foreign language instruction soon.” But, I never followed through. Now, my son has just started high school and is finally taking a foreign language, Spanish. I wish he…