Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 4 Minutes Among today’s most popular apps is ChatterPix from Duck Duck Moose (and its ChatterPix Kids version for children below social-sharing age). The basic premise is simple: use the app to take a photo…
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988: The New Mental-Health Emergency Number
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 3 Minutes In the United States, over 45,000 people die each year from suicide—the country’s twelfth leading cause of death. Many of these tragedies could be prevented if prompt diagnosis and treatment were available (and…
Family Travel with a Disability
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 3 Minutes No exaggeration: Googling “family travel horror stories” will get you over 100 million results. If there’s a foolproof method for getting a whole household into the next state or through an airport without…
Preventing the Summer Slide in Low-Income Families
Summer is the season when children look forward to a long break from school—and parents dread the “summer slide,” aka academic skills getting flabby from lack of exercise. Well-off families often enroll their kids in programs that incorporate science, reading,…
Summer Slide and Learning Disabilities
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 3 Minutes When school vacation starts, so do parental worries about “summer slide”—the extended-time-off effect by which too many kids forget what they learned the previous year. And if your children have learning disabilities, the…
Can Childhood Habits Reduce Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s?
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 4 Minutes Nearly 6 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, the best-known and most dreaded form of dementia. Typically seen in people 65 and older, Alzheimer’s rarely gets much thought from those under 50, unless they…
COMING SOON! New, Easier Way to Search Out Your Best Apps
Finding helpful apps can be time consuming, complicated and overwhelming. We’ve been hard at work planning ways to improve your experience, and now we’re about to take a giant step forward in user-friendliness. The brand-new App Search Tool, scheduled to launch later…
Special Needs Parenting Tips for Fathers
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 6 Minutes To celebrate Father’s Day, today’s post is written for fathers, who often feel neglected amidst all the parenting advice and support groups aimed at mothers. Every dedicated father—single or paired up, full-time or…
Special Needs, Opportunities, and the Cost of Living: Extra Challenges for Low-Income Families
It’s hard enough raising a child with special needs. It’s hard enough feeding a family on under $25,000 a year (a typical income for full-time restaurant employees in the United States). But for the parent coping with a child’s special…
Emergency Preparedness When a Family Member Has Special Needs
Hurricane season in the U.S. runs from June through November, and many people keep a nervous eye on the coast each summer. But for some families, emergency preparedness is especially worrisome in any season. You probably harbor higher-than-average dread of…