October is Selective Mutism Awareness Month
Selective mutism is a rare disorder, a communication disability, affecting less than 1% of kids.
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6 Benefits of Freewriting
Freewriting is a simple writing practice that helps prime the writer for creativity and inspiration among other benefits
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Making Friends with My Grief
A conversation with my daughter about the grandfather she never met helped us both heal.
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How Adding Limits can Supercharge Creativity: the 3-Marker Challenge
I love watching kids create. They naturally come up with these little tricks to supercharge creativity, and they don't even know they're doing it. We just returned from a Washington Coast getaway with family, and as usual, the kids taught me a thing or two about creativity. Really, I think we can learn a lot [...]
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15 Journaling and Writing Prompts about Friendship
Friends are the family we choose. Just like our families, their influence on our lives, and how we perceive and interact with the world is vast. It could even be argued that because we choose each other, who we befriend may influence us and say something about us even more than our families. I really [...]
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