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Homeschool Summer Learning Activities That Don’t Feel Like School
Injury law experts outline the conversations every parent should have before drop-off day. By Merilee Kern, MBA As families finalize summer plans, many parents focus on activities, schedules, and convenience while overlooking critical safety questions that can reveal whether a camp or summer program is truly prepared to protect children when something goes wrong. While licensed camps must meet specific safety requirements, not every summer program is legally classified as a camp. Regardless of designation, experts say every program should be able to clearly explain how it handles injuries, emergencies, supervision, transportation, allergies, medications, and reunification procedures. According to Personal Injury attorneys David Lever and Dan Ecker, Founding Partners of Lever…
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Something for Everyone Holiday Gift Guide 2025
The It-List: ‘Something for Everyone’ Holiday Gift Ideas By Merilee Kern, MBA From runway-ready accessories and comfort-first heels to smart home helpers, self-care tech, pet essentials, travel upgrades, and crave-worthy gourmet picks, this curated Holiday Gift Guide gathers standout finds that feel thoughtful, useful, and a little luxurious . Here you’ll discover jewelry that elevates every outfit, wellness tools that soothe stressed seasons, eco-minded linens and clever cleaning tech for a calmer home, stylish gear for frequent flyers, and foodie favorites that make entertaining effortless. Whether you’re shopping for the fashion lover, the homebody, the jet-setter, the wellness devotee, or the hard-to-please host, these editor-vetted ideas hit the sweet spot…
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Parenting in the Digital Age: Tips to Uphold Kids’ Mental Health By Merilee Kern, MBA
There has been much critical discourse about the escalating children’s mental health crisis relative to how benchmarks like stress, anxiety and loneliness are driving depression and other serious psychological conditions amongst youth populations like never before. Of course, children are not the only ones suffering, as parents and caregivers struggle to prevent, address and treat concerns in order to uphold kids’ emotional well-being. In this process, the adults themselves are suffering in kind—often exacerbating their own mental and emotional struggles amid the copious complexities of modern life. This, of course, has a litany of macro-economic implications. As one case in point, a Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health research…
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