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Good Study Habits are the Key to Success for Students (guest blogger)

Blog Post, Social Skills, Stress, Uncategorized / Sheri

Guest blogger, Lynette Apley of Simply Placed, www.ItsSimplyPlaced.com Organization, good study habits, time management and goal setting are life skills that can help students through middle school, high school, college and beyond. As a student, being organized means finding what you need, when you need it. When you are able to find what you need, […]

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JOURNALING: Listening to Your Heart

Blog Post, Resilience, Stress / Sheri

Journaling gives you a few minutes of solitude that engages the right side of your brain. Logic gets pushed to the side. Rules and goals go by the wayside, and the heart is allowed to speak its truth. Busy, chaotic, exhausted. These are words that many parents and teens use to describe their lives these

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A SOCIAL JUMPSTART: Getting ready for the back-to-school social scene

Blog Post, Communication, Resilience, Social Skills, Stress / Sheri

In late June, I visited the local office supply store. Can you believe they were already putting up their back-to-school displays? For parents, we dread rounding up the list of required school supplies. There’s this primitive drive and panic that kicks in to make sure we round up every last item! Your child might love

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Adderall- Tis the Season

Blog Post, Safety, Social Skills, Stress / Sheri

Your student is highly motivated to get straight A’s. She studies without outside encouragement. She works on the weekends and during school breaks. She strives for perfection. Her dream is to go to an Ivy League school. With a dream student like this, you are probably thinking that you don’t need to worry about drugs

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Why the #MeToo Movement is Leaving Teen Girls Behind

4 Comments / Blog Post, Featured, Resilience, Safety, Social Skills, Stress / Sheri

It has been both sickening and empowering to watch as my friends on Facebook post #MeToo. It doesn’t come as a shock, though. There are plenty of personal stories I can tell about sexual harassment, many of which occurred before I graduated high school. So while I see my friends who are all grown women

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Talking to your Teen about Charlottesville

Blog Post, Communication, Internet, Resilience, Social Skills, Stress / Sheri

The United States are going through a rough time and our kids are watching it play out on social media 24/7. In every era and in every society, you have people that are haters. Their hearts are dark and filled with anger. This is nothing new. The despicable march in Charlottesville is a prime example.

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The Power of the Smile

Blog Post, Communication, Resilience, Social Skills, Stress / Sheri

A few weeks ago, I was shopping in one of my favorite craft stores. As usual, I scanned the aisles for the latest must-haves in craft products. Being artsy is a big stress reliever for me although most of the time it’s about buying the stuff. From time to time, I actually use it. Anyway,

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Death Threats: How Do I Comfort my Child?

Blog Post, Communication, Safety, Stress / Sheri

My daughter stayed home from school today because she had a sore throat. She was sleeping soundly until her phone started lighting up with text messages. Her friends who were at school were frantically texting each other. All of them were trying to figure out if there was a death threat at their school. One

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