As we near the end of National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week for 2011, it is important that parents, teachers and other adults to be able to understand the importance of treating mental health symptoms in children. Just as you […]
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May’s food of the month is: spinach! Popeye made spinach famous by motivating children to eat it so they can grow up to be strong like him. What Popeye did not address was that to be strong requires positive physical
“I said cold water,” barked Shweta. “Looks like your hearing is going already.” Kishore took the glass to the freezer to add some ice. “If you don’t take pour out some water first, it’s going to spill,” she said disgustedly.
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People of all ages, including children, are prone to experiencing stress. While it’s important to recognize the difference between good stress and bad stress, some level of both types of stress is essential for a healthy life. However, when stress
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Self-esteem is having confidence in one’s own abilities, skills, talents, appearance, beliefs, emotions and behaviors, etc. Self-esteem is a contradictory concept to the South Asian culture by the very nature that it focuses on the self as opposed to the
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April’s food of the month is: chickpeas! Chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, have a strong presence in South Asian cuisine. Seen in common recipes such as chhole, chanay ka pulao and a whole host of dishes containing chickpea flour,
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