The world often seems infected with a pandemic of negativity, which has only been exacerbated by the e-communications age. Today, it takes barely…
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Child Health
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First rule of keeping your children safe: don’t base your rules on scary news reports! That will just generate unreasonableness on your part…
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Time “off” equals chaos to many people, especially during the winter holidays and especially when you have primary-school-age kids out of school and…
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While everyone needs the security of boundaries, everyone also needs challenge and opportunities to grow. Children in particular often struggle to find…
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Shady Oak believes in preparing children for adulthood by building on “6 Pillars”: Connection, Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and [Capable] Problem Solving.…
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If you think that children always learn from adults and never vice versa, think again! Kids have plenty of useful ideas, and can…
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Life is complex, profound, and full of surprises and challenges. When these come rapidly, life is frequently hard, often confusing, and sometimes outright…
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Shady Oak believes in preparing children for adulthood by building on “6 Pillars”: Connection, Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and [Capable] Problem Solving.…
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“Give your kids fewer things and more you” is among the pearls of wisdom that everyone agrees with intellectually—and too few people make…
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At age seven or eight, it’s hard to comprehend the limits of the human lifespan; but it still pays to start early on…