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BOOK REVIEW: 'The War at Home' by Rachel Starnes

The origins of Rachel Starnes' book The War at Home is a love story, her love story—girl falls in love with her brother’s best friend, a man whose pursuit of becoming a Navy pilot means leaving regularly for long stretches of time. Emotionally honest and eloquent, Starnes shares a snapshot of military life and the strains it puts on families.

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Testing Behaviors

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Getting to Win-Win in Power Struggles

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Toddler Aggression

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Newborn Sleep

1.  Newborn babies sleep up to 18 hours per day.

Parents of new babies all complain about of lack of sleep. But this is really about the parents’ experience – not the baby’s! Newborns need a massive amount of sleep – fifteen to eighteen hours each day. The problem for us is that they break up this sleep into chunks spread out over all 24 hours of the day and night. The good news is that over the early months their biological clock kicks in and they start to consolidate more sleep during the night.  

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