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Kids start building life skills and coping strategies pretty much from birth, with each new developmental milestone laying the foundation for the next, as they learn how to relate to others and to problem-solve in evermore complex ways. As they get older and start school, kids learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. But what are the other essential life skills to teach kids?There are all sorts of life skills for kids — some basic, some fairly complex — that require mastery in order to have the sort of social, emotional and practical wherewithal to be good at life. According to child...

If you don’t have a young child in your life, or aren’t acquainted with toddler pop culture, you may not know much about a pint-sized pup named Bluey. The animated series “Bluey” centers around the adventures and misadventures of an Australian Blue Heeler family. “Bluey” is a favorite among kids and adults alike for its humor, spunk and adorable accents. Most notably, the show is incredibly relatable. New parenthood is full of promise and joyful chaos and also a profound sense of ineptitude and anxiety. In my experience as a first-time mother to a 1-year-old, each day is a lesson...

If you didn’t think AI technology could do everything, you were wrong. An AI teddy bear has now become a new possibility that will promises to put children to sleep with highly personalized bedtime stories.  With this new technology, it’s possible to imagine a world where parents’ only job will be to tuck their children into bed and leave the rest of the work to the teddy bear, who will learn their child’s favorite bedtime stories, and customize how they tell them.  This might sound like the best solution for tired and hard-working parents, but what about the potential for...

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Ryder, our hug-happy, determined, loving, sensitive, funny, thoughtful and snuggly middle man, is officially FIVE years old! My heart grew 10,000 times over when Ryder came into this world and we were blessed with a little boy who is love, kindness, creativity, focus, sensitivity, humor and cuddles wrapped up in a beautiful brown-eyed package. Ryder hugs hard, loves even harder and makes our family so much better. From the beginning, we could tell there was something different about Ryder and the way he’d stare up at us with the most intensely adoring eyes. As he entered toddlerhood and grew to...