North State Parent magazine

A MAGAZINE SERVING FAMILIES IN BUTTE, GLENN, SHASTA, SISKIYOU & TEHAMA COUNTIES SINCE 1993

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Grow Your Preschooler’s Math Brain – Everyday Moments That Count

We all cheer when our children sing the alphabet song for the first time or recite bedtime stories from memory. Parents understand how vital reading is to future school achievement. […]

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Loving and Accepting Your Teen No Matter What

Parents get frustrated, even desperate when they cannot make their attachment-challenged teen be different (i.e. be good.)  We can even get to the point where we don’t want to be […]

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From Chaos to Gratitude: Survival Tips for New Parents

Delighted, anxious, excited, tired – congratulations on being a new parent! The reality is that sometimes parenting can feel like survival, other times it is the best feeling in the […]

Let your baby lead the way and don’t insist. Open mouth means “Yes, yum.” Closed mouth or turned head means “No, I’m full” or “No, I don’t like that.”

First Foods for Baby

Hi, families with young babies. This one’s for you! Giving someone their first real taste of food can be daunting. Let’s break it down and make it a process you […]

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How To Share the Emotional Labor Of Parenting

Many modern families share domestic duties in a way that would have been foreign to previous generations. Dads today will often willingly do a load of laundry, change a diaper […]

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Teacher Retention: Does it Really Matter?

Much has changed in our world and yet our educational system, by and large, is based on a model created during the industrial revolution. Since then, the working environment and […]

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Masking AND Cognitive Fatigue: Why After-School Meltdowns Happen

If your child seems to hold it together all day at school only to fall apart the moment they walk through the door, you’re not alone. Many parents of neurodivergent […]

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ARFID and the Holidays: Why It’s More Than Picky Eating

The holiday season is supposed to be full of fun, laughter, getting together with family and friends and food is often an integral part of every gathering. But for families […]

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Holiday Gifts That Educate and Delight Children of All Ages

As they gear up for the holiday season, parents and grandparents head out to what often seems a “shopping jungle” to purchase toys and gifts that will bring joy to […]

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Charity Begins at Home: Encouraging A Giving Spirit in Children

We live in the age of selfies, where bullying is on the rise and civility is on the decline. Not-so-subtle societal messages tell us that our worth is defined by […]

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A More Meaningful Halloween: Teaching Empathy and Compassion Through Costumes and Candy

It’s easy to see Halloween as a blur of plastic pumpkins, costume stress and frantic trick-or-treating. But what if it could also be meaningful? What if Halloween allowed us to […]

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AI’s Role in Supporting Neurodivergent Students, With Safety and Balance in Mind

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of daily life in ways we couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago. From adaptive learning apps in the classroom to virtual study […]