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“Pull” Together at Tab-a-PULL-ooza! Does your family, school, or workplace collect pull tabs? Your collection can help keep families close to their hospitalized children! Bring your tab collection to the Tab-a-PULL-ooza pull-tab contest: Saturday, May 21, 2016 | 8AM – 1PM Second Street Market , 600 East Second St, Dayton This family-friendly event is a…

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Top 10 Tips for Moving with Kids

Have you been considering making a move with children?  There are some tips to ease the transition and help curve the anxiety. 1. Share your emotions.  Let them know that you are probably feeling the same emotions that they are such as sadness, excitement, anxiousness, curiosity, frustration, etc. Moving brings up all kinds of emotions…

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Summer Camp and Safety

Each year 11 million+ children attend a summer camp. They are great for building self esteem and confidence as well as teaching independence along with building social skills and making lifelong memories. We want our kids to have fun but we also want them to be safe. There are day camps and residential camps that…

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A Building Designed for Learning: The Miami Valley School Early Childhood School

In an era when many early childhood centers run off ready-made curricula and cookie-cutter lesson plans, one school is still reinventing student-led learning — as they have for over 25 years. It’s The Miami Valley School’s Early Childhood School, where independent learning is thriving and evident on every smile on the children’s faces. The passionate…

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