When kids head back to school this fall, for some it will be the first time they’ve been in a real classroom with other students since the pandemic began. Even if they attended classes in person last year, the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant of covid-19 will require a new safety calculation, particularly …
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This summer, I spent many sleepless nights weighing the pros and cons of sending my child to in-person school versus remote learning. It was a gut-wrenching decision when we finally decided to send him to school in-person. After all, Covid-19 transmission rate was low in the New York suburbs when school started, so what are …
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If you have a teen or tween with a smartphone, you know what a constant struggle it is to manage their cell phone usage. It’s as if our teens are addicted to their phones! We asked Suburbs 101 contributor, Justine Carino, a therapist who works with teens and young adults, to give us some advice …
Not soon after you are holding your newborn baby safely in your arms, you already start to think about how fast the next eighteen years of your lives together are going to go. This thought can bring relief to parents on those really hard parenting days when you are dying for a minute alone or …
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Penny Goffman had a successful career in finance before she had kids. But after becoming a mother, she was faced with the difficult decision of staying at home or going back to work. Is it better to be a stay at home mom? Or should she pursue her career and become a working mom? Here …
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