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Liar Liar Pants on Fire: Why Kids Lie and What You Can Do

Your six-year-old just told you that she did not write her name on the wall but her name is very clear­ly writ­ten on the wall in her hand­writ­ing. Either there is a tiny gnome liv­ing in your house with the same hand­writ­ing as your child, or she just told you a lie. While many par­ents may jump to the con­clu­sion that their child is grow­ing up to be a patho­log­i­cal liar, the truth is that her lie is com­plete­ly nor­mal behav­ior. All kids will fib or stretch the truth at some point in their ear­ly years and there are many rea­sons for this.

Packing Nutritious and Delicious School Lunches

Par­ents, raise your hand if you are ready for school to start! Now, raise your hand if you despise pack­ing school lunch­es! For some rea­son, it is one item on my to-do” list that I absolute­ly loathe. Our local schools pro­vide great lunch­es, but there are still days that I need to pack a lunch or two. – (and now three this year, as my baby is start­ing first grade sob.) But I digress.

Whether we’re ready or not, it’s time to dig out the lunch box­es, and get pre­pared for anoth­er year! Let’s face it, thanks to Pin­ter­est we have moved way beyond the tra­di­tion­al, some may say bor­ing,” sand­wich and chips meal. This helps keep lunch fun for kids, but mak­ing sure their lunch is both healthy and some­thing they’ll eat can be a challenge.

At-home Activities to Support Speech Development in Children

Class­rooms across the region are oper­at­ing remote­ly, as schools have closed for the aca­d­e­m­ic year. For some fam­i­lies, this change extends beyond the class­room and impacts how their chil­dren receive sup­port ser­vices, such as speech ther­a­py, through their schools. With May being Bet­ter Hear­ing and Speech Month, Tana Mag­gart, speech ther­a­pist at Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG), offers some tips for par­ents and care­givers to sup­port their young children.