Parenting expert Sarah Rosensweet shares strategies to help combat boredom that can come as the summer winds down and kids have been out of routine.

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Sarah Rosensweet is a certified peaceful parenting coach, speaker, and educator. She lives in Toronto with her husband and her 15- and 18-year-old kids. Her 22-year-old son has launched.

Peaceful parenting is a non-punitive, connection-based approach that uses firm limits with lots of empathy. Sarah works one-on-one virtually with parents all over the world to help them go from frustrated and overwhelmed to “we’ve got this!”

Sarah offers a free course, How To Stop Yelling At Your Kids, so that you can be the parent you want to be.

Read more at: www.sarahrosensweet.com  or listen to her top-rated parenting podcast, The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, wherever you get your podcasts!

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VP of Autism Speaks shares strategies for a successful school year

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Lindsay Naeder joined Autism Speaks in 2012. Lindsay leads the organization’s national Autism Response Team (ART) and Outreach teams to deliver Autism Speaks mission priorities through Information &amp; Referral and educational community programs and events. Prior to her work at Autism Speaks, Lindsay held a variety of leadership roles in non-profit program development and social services in NYC. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and a Master of Social Work degree from Hunter College, School of Social Work. Lindsay is proud to have a personal connection to the mission of Autism Speaks as the sibling to her autistic brother. She lives in the Philadelphia metro area with her wife and son.

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Here’s how three parents are navigating a relocation, what it means for kids, and how experts advise co&#x2d;parents handle the situation.

And when Emma asked if she could spend more time at her dad’s over the summer, he said he had to ask his girlfriend. “The answer was no,” says Hannah. “They said they had no room for her there.”

“It doesn’t take a lot to knock co-parents off balance”

She was surprised that she couldn’t take her kid back to Toronto, even though it was their hometown, and where she had her support system. “There’s no guarantee you have any right to move,” she says. 

“We were negotiating whose happiness mattered more”

When one parent leaves

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Parenting expert Sarah Rosensweet shares strategies to help your little one manage separation anxiety during school drop&#x2d;off.

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Ask Sarah: How to Survive Without Routine

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