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    5 Reasons Parents Must Show Flexibility

    5 Reasons Parents Must Show Flexibility

    Posted April 26, 2014, 3:00 pm by Sarah Brooks

    Part of the natural advancement we experience in our lives involves “getting our ducks in a row.” Somehow, as life becomes more complicated and responsibilities expand, we strive to control...

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    Parents—Not Teens—Are Overusing Devices

    Parents—Not Teens—Are Overusing Devices

    Posted April 24, 2014, 6:59 pm by Customer Service

    When we think about the smartphone age, we undoubtedly picture a teenager, mindlessly yet furiously typing text messages at the dinner table, at school, and at work—all places where the...

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    Heroin Epidemic Invades the Suburbs

    Heroin Epidemic Invades the Suburbs

    Posted April 23, 2014, 3:00 pm by Customer Service

    In the last five years, heroin use has exploded throughout the United States. This is no secret—high profile celebrities such as Corey Monteith and Phillip Seymour Hoffman died from heroin...

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    Misdiagnosis of Eating Disorders in College

    Misdiagnosis of Eating Disorders in College

    Posted April 16, 2014, 3:00 pm by Randi Mazzella

    Frances Chan is a 20-year-old undergraduate at Yale University. In September, Chan went to the campus cancer center because she found a lump in her breast. The lump in her...

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    Helping Teens Deal with College Rejection

    Helping Teens Deal with College Rejection

    Posted April 10, 2014, 3:00 pm by Randi Mazzella

    Years ago, when parents told their teens that a letter had arrived from the college admissions office, the immediate question would be “thick or thin”? A thick envelope meant “acceptance”...

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