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Children With Special Needs: Tantrum Management

How do you deal with the sometimes colossal tantrums of your child with autism? What about the mild tantrums? Are you able to recognize the buildup before a tantrum? Can you predict a tantrum? For example, if you know the news you are about to give your child is not going to be well-received, do you cringe in anticipation of an oncoming tantrum?

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Tormented Tummy? 10 Best & Worst Foods for a Long-Term Fix

Getting a stomach ache is the WORST! The pain, or sometimes the feeling that you’re going to ralph at any second, is just another thing that moms have to deal with every once in a while in addition to the gazillion other tasks they must complete in a day. There’s no way to prevent those fluke tummy tumults–food poisoning, for example–that hit unexpectedly. There are, however, some general guidelines you can follow in order to stay as far away as possible from the other stuff–indigestion, constipation, gas, diarrhea, etc.

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Texting Can Save The World (Just Follow These Rules)

I love and hate texting for one reason and one reason only: Communication. Texting is fun, its quick, and its easy. I can fire off a text to make someone laugh faster than Mario Andretti at the Indy. In my youth, Id go to any length to make someone laugh, I actually spent a full year in therapy trying to undo why Id randomly moon my friends or drive through a …