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    Daughter coming home after TBI Wednesday, I’m terrified and full of fear even after trying to be grateful and hopeful. My heart aches

    @tim_goodnews Remember that young brains have remarkable plasticity. My mother drowned at the age of three in the 1950s. Her grandfather revived her with rudimentary CPR, after which she wasn’t even taken to the hospital. She was oxygen deprived for so long that she could no longer walk or...
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    Single father of 4 (3, 5, 6, and 9), and my youngest cries for mommy every time she’s disciplined, even though she left when she was only 6 mos

    @katrina2017 Play therapy has worked wonders for my daughter. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Thanks for everything you do.
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    Redshirting in preschool

    @tgia413 I skipped a grade, so I was 17 for all but a month of my freshman year. It was fine. An extra year wouldn’t have improved my academic performance.
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    Redshirting in preschool

    @tgia413 I did my master’s thesis on redshirting years ago. At the time, the overwhelming consensus of the literature was that there are short term advantages that disappear by late grade school, and by high school redshirted kids actually have worse outcomes. I also put my money where my mouth...
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    Oh, me? Just screaming into the void

    @andica2006 I hear you. We’re lucky because my husband is working from home 100% and I’m at home about 80% right now. We haven’t sent our son to daycare since Dec 23rd. We’re getting daily emails about positive cases in the building, my son’s classroom is fully closed right now due to a positive...
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