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Why A Home Exchange Is a Great Family Vacation

Like a lot of families, our summer vacation plans were canceled due to COVID-19. We are looking forward to the days when we can travel again. When we are able, our next vacation will be a home exchange. We got started home exchanging three years ago, and now, it's our favorite way to vacation! So…

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Baby Brain Development in the Womb

Your baby’s brain starts developing almost at the moment of conception, according to the Long Island Spectrum Center website. By the time you are three weeks pregnant, the developing embryo has formed a neural groove, which is the foundation for the brain structure. By the time your baby is born, her brain will have over 100 billion neurons.

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Can Taking Birth Control Cause You to Be Infertile?

Having a reliable form of birth control is important to many women who want to prevent pregnancy in the immediate future. Many women worry about the effect that birth control will have on their future fertility. There are many different forms of birth control available to women today. Some may cause changes to a woman’s body that may make it difficult to conceive in the future.

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Helicopter Parents – And Their Longterm Consequences

It’s bad enough being a kid with helicopter parents. They can hover over your childhood and adolescence, warping the normal process of growing up, and inflicting enough damage for decades of therapy. In October 2015, the website Reddit asked readers what was the “worst or most embarrassing” thing their parents had put them through. The…