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Who's Footing the College Tuition Bill? 10/11/2017 08:00pm • American families spent an average of $23,757 to send their kids to college during the 2016-2017 school year. That's according to a study conducted by student loan company Sallie Mae. Now in its 10th year, the annual "How America Pays for College" survey asks 800 undergraduate students between the 8 Ways Parents Can Help Manage Their Teen's Diabetes 10/11/2017 08:00pm • If you have a teen with diabetes, you know how exhausting it is to help them with their self-care. You want to stay involved with monitoring blood sugar numbers like you did when he or she was younger, but you also want to give the independence teens crave. "It's quite difficult to achieve the appro The Pros and Cons of Teen Sleepovers 10/11/2017 08:00pm • Your children may have started sleeping over at their friends' homes during the middle school years or perhaps when they were even younger. Maybe their first sleepover was at a relative's house or related to a school trip. When kids are younger, sleepovers are mostly about bonding and growing up. Pa Charlottesville schools the subject of social-media threat referencing Las Vegas shooting 10/11/2017 06:02pm • WASHINGTON — Regular school activities will resume in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Thursday after a social media threat on Wednesday that made reference to the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas led to the posting of police at all public and many private schools. The Charlottesville police said Wildfires leave chimneys, charred appliances in their wake 10/10/2017 09:22pm • SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — The flames that raced across California wine country left little more than smoldering ashes and eye-stinging smoke in their wake. House after house is gone, with only brick chimneys and charred laundry machines to mark sites that were once family homes. The wildfires b The power of IRL: Creating space for teens to unplug and engage 10/10/2017 08:00pm • When I share that I'm a clinical social worker specializing in adolescents, the common responses are, "That must be so hard," "Aren't their problems just due to puberty?" and "Isn't that young to begin therapy?" However, the most frequent statement, often expressed with disdain, is: "Those teens New Homebuyer Programs Help Student Loan Borrowers 10/10/2017 08:00pm • Evidence showing that student loan debt is affecting the housing market continues to pile up -- but so are tangible solutions for borrowers. According to the recent joint study by the National Association of Realtors and American Student Assistance -- full disclosure, ASA authors the Student Loan R How to 'Fall Back' Gracefully to Standard Time With a Young Child 10/10/2017 08:00pm • On Sunday, Nov. 5, all of us who live in the United States and Canada will set our clocks back an hour, and, for a brief moment, feel like we've stolen an extra hour of sleep. However, when you have small children, you may need to make a few adjustments ahead of time, so they can make a graceful tr How AI and Investing Are Merging 10/10/2017 08:00pm • You wake up to your morning Joe, which your coffee machine brews just the way you like it because it has learned your tastes, even when they change. Alexa greets you and before you can even ask about the weather, she says her parent company Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is going to release its quarterl How to Raise an ADHD Child When Parents Have Differing Views About Treatment 10/10/2017 08:00pm • When a child is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, parents may have differing views about how to treat symptoms. For example, one parent may insist that ADHD medication be used, while the other parent prefers exploring a more holistic approach, which often involves an emphasis 9 Unsettling Facts About Child Marriage on International Day of the Girl Child 10/10/2017 08:00pm • About 1.1 billion girls live in the world today, but not all live equally. The United Nations observes Oct. 11 as International Day of the Girl Child in an effort to spread awareness about gender inequality worldwide and to empower young girls around the globe. Such inequalities include general dis Police: Montgomery Co. karate instructor sexually assaulted 15-year-old student 10/10/2017 06:06pm • WASHINGTON — Montgomery County police arrested a karate instructor they say inappropriately touched one of his 15-year-old students. Police arrested Frank Yul Pugarita Monday. (Courtesy Montgomery County police) Police arrested 54-year-old Frank Yul Pugarita Monday after police say he h Driver pleads 'no contest' to misdemeanor charge in Lansdowne crash that killed baby 10/10/2017 12:10pm • LEESBURG, Va. — The driver whose SUV killed 5-month-old Tristan Schulz in a 2016 crash in Lansdowne, Virginia, was found guilty of misdemeanor reckless driving, but didn't say the words family friends and supporters of the Schulz family hoped to hear. John Miller IV, of Leesburg, spoke quietly How to Prevent Your Child From Developing a Peanut Allergy 10/09/2017 08:00pm • As a specialist in food allergy, one of the frequent questions I get from parents of children with newly-diagnosed allergies is: "Is there anything that can be done to prevent food allergies?" Until recently, the universal answer was nothing at all. Peanut allergy is the single most common food al Should You Buy Off-Campus Housing for Your College Kid? 10/09/2017 08:00pm • If you have a child heading off to college in the near future or you currently have a student in first-year dorms, you may be experiencing sticker shock at the price of student housing. Average prices per year for housing are more than $9,000 in college towns. In highly desirable college towns outs