Special Parents of Spcial Kids Interview
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How to get your kids to……
Motivate Your Kids to Get Things Done“Put the dishes away when you’re done.” “Don’t take your sister’s toys without asking her first.” How often do you feel like a broken record? Between after-school activities, homework, video games, soccer practice, and just keeping up with life, getting your kids to do what they’re supposed to do sometimes feels herculean and impossible.…
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Diagnosis Later in Life
Part 1 My name is Caitlin, and I’m the program director at curaJOY. I was also diagnosed with ADHD and a mood disorder at age 31, after 15 years of misdiagnosis and a lifetime of feeling somehow “behind glass” in social situations. This post will be part of a series on under- and late-diagnosis in…
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Be the Change You Want to See–Through Volunteering
Last week, I wrote about our volunteer-based product experience team working furiously on our MVP. Some of them are putting in as much as 20 hours a week! We are grateful for any donation of time, expertise, money and products. When I founded curaJOY and started ideating a digital program, friends questioned why I’d give…
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Feel. Think. Reflect. Don’t “Seal” Your Fate
I took my daughters along the Southern California coastline over the weekend and had the good fortune of observing newborn seals and two mother seals in labor up close. In one beach alcove, around 50 seals swam, lounged about, and nursed their young comfortably in the safety of numbers and natural environmental barriers. Every year,…
