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Back-to-School Wellness: Tips to Keep Kids Healthy

Jul 30, 2021 ● By Ronica O’Hara

Parents can ensure children’s health and well-being as they go back to school with these tips for kid's healthy food, family communication, adequate sleep and more.

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Pet Happy: How Animals Help Kids Thrive

Jun 30, 2021 ● By Ronica O’Hara

With studies showing the profound effects that pets can have on children's health, character development and well-being, here are reasons why parents should consider getting a family pet.

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Relaxed Kids: Simple Ways to Calm Anxious Children

May 28, 2021 ● By Sandra Yeyati

Expose kids to relaxation practices through fun activities, yoga poses, mindfulness exercises, meditation and other techniques to naturally calm childhood anxiety.

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Natural Mama: Holistic Approaches to a Healthy Pregnancy

Apr 30, 2021 ● By Julie Peterson

Eating organic, detoxing the house, practicing meditation or yoga and other holistic approaches for expectant mothers to follow during pregnancy for delivering a healthy baby.

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The Infertility Epidemic

Apr 04, 2021

We all know someone who’s had trouble conceiving or miscarried. The number of women who come to my office with fertility complaints has risen dramatically over the past decade, for a number of reasons. Here’s what I’ve found while helping many of them achieve the goal of a successful pregnancy.

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Nature to the Rescue: Kids Come Alive Outdoors

Mar 31, 2021 ● By Ronica O’Hara

Take the entire family exploring outdoors with these fun ideas to get children actively involved with nature in ways that open their senses while also moving their bodies.

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Getting Pregnant: Lifestyle Strategies to Boost Fertility

Feb 26, 2021 ● By Ronica O’Hara

Natural approaches such as healthier diets, supplements, detoxed living, herbs, acupuncture and other Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) tips for boosting fertility to achieve pregnancy.

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Brain Inflamed: How Physiological Dysfunction Feeds Mood Disorders in Adolescents and Teens

Jan 31, 2021 ● By Dr. Kenneth Bock

I’ve treated children, teens and adolescents for decades at my integrative medical practice in Red Hook, and it’s clear to me that this generation of young people is stressed in ways they’ve never been before.

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Foreign Locales Spark Deep Experiences

Jan 30, 2021

Summer is a perfect time for teens to broaden their horizons—mentally, emotionally, socially and literally

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Tricks to get kids to eat more vegetables
Veggie Tricks: How to Get Kids to Eat Better

Jan 29, 2021 ● By Ronica O’Hara

Parenting bloggers and nutritionists share effective ways to get even the pickiest of children to eat more vegetables.

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Healing the Whole Child: Holistic Pediatricians Go Beyond Meds

Dec 30, 2020 ● By Ronica O’Hara

Holistic pediatricians apply evidence-informed, natural, integrative approaches to healing children, emphasizing healthy lifestyle behaviors for overall well-being.

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Clairvoyant Parenting

Dec 25, 2020

“I am often asked by parents if I will read their child to help them,” says Tori Quisling, clairvoyant practitioner and founder of N.Y. Center for Clairvoyant Development, in Port Washington. “I best help children by reading and communicating with the parent who is concerned. I help parents to ‘see’ their children differently and find what their original soul agreement is for their child as well as the child’s past lives, spiritual path, and more to promote healing.”

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Healthy School Food

Dec 24, 2020

With all the emphasis on making sure our kids eat healthy meals, school meal programs on Long Island are suffering.

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Meaningful holiday gift idea
Reinvent the Holidays: More Meaning, Less Stuff

Nov 27, 2020 ● By Ronica O’Hara

The pandemic is shifting this year’s holidays, motivating parents to seek out affordable, meaningful, sustainable and non-material gift ideas for kids, saving money and creating memories.

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