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Free Hair Regrowth Tips
Like many things you take for granted, the health of your hair can diminish. Certain conditions, including age, illness and hormone changes, may cause your hair to thin. Even medical treatments, such as chemotherapy, can promote hair loss and balding. Styling techniques and chemical processes can also diminish hair health. Treating the underlying cause of your hair loss and incorporating healthy styling practices can help you minimize hair loss and grow an attractive mane of hair.
Handling the End of School Transition for Your Child With Autism
The end of the school year is a busy but exciting time of year for students and their parents. School parties and summer fun is just around the corner. Kids are eager for vacation and looking forward to all kinds of summer activities. For many children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other special needs, the end of the school marks an important transition time for families and teachers including assessing student progress, reviewing Individual Education Plans, developing appropriate goals, and preparing to transition to new teachers, classrooms, or schools. Few programs offer systematic and thorough support for these students and their families to ensure the smoothest transition possible and maintenance of annual gains. Many programs do not offer continuous educational support and most fail to allow time or resources for the current teachers, aides, and specialists to collaborate with next years educational team. Therefore, parents are often responsible to make this transition happen. Here are some tips for getting through the summer and planning for fall for your child with special needs!
How Divorce Affects Your Sleep
Sleep is one of our most precious resources. It is vital to our health and well-being. Just as we need food for energy, we need sleep to relax and recharge. During sleep the body renews its energy, releases growth hormones, and heals itself. In times of extreme stress sleep is one of the first things to become disrupted. There are two types of disruption: excessive sleeping and lack of sleep. It is not uncommon to experience both of them in the same period of time and even alternate between not being able to sleep and sleeping what seems like all the time.
Surrogate Mother Facts
According to the National Infertility Association, approximately 7.3 million individuals in the United States–one in every eight couples–struggle with infertility issues. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine says that one-third of those affected are women, one-third are men and one-third of the cases remain unexplained. For many of these couples, hiring a surrogate mother is one of the only ways they can bear a child together without the use of donor eggs or sperm or fertility drugs.
Bullying: Is It Your Fault?
Did you see fourteen year old Phoebe Prince on the cover of PEOPLE magazine several times? She’s the 15-year-old teen that committed suicide after being bullied at her school. Now, many of the administrators at the school are resigning, because they are being blamed for her death. Is it the school’s fault?