Nancy Mramor Kajuth Ph.D.

Making the Move to a New School Less Stressful for Your Kids

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My Move, By Dawn Allcot

You may have lots of worries prior to and during a move: Will the house closing go smoothly? Will the moving company arrive on time and act professionally? Will my child’s new school be safe?

Meanwhile, as you worry about academic standards and security in the new school, your child probably has his or her own set of completely different fears.Will I make new friends? Will I be teased for being new? Will I see my old friends again? In general, experts say that most children will adapt to a new environment and begin making friends within about three months, but it could take longer.

Here are three steps toward ensuring a smooth moving transition for children.

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How Do Dads Shape Your Life?

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What is so important about Dads?
Traditionally, they have been known for their caring, breadwinning, helping with learning tasks, willingness to play and tumble with their children and forming attachments to them. These attachments allow the children to form strong attachments with their own families later in life.

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Healthy Happy Technology with guest Nancy Mramor Ph.D.

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Healthy Happy Technology: How to Watch TV, Use The Internet and Talk on Your Cell Phone without risking your mental, emotinal or physical health with author Elizabth Cuckson. Many health problems can occur due to too much use of media and technology. Learn what the risks and benefits are, how to minimize the risks and how to remain authentic when surrounded by influential images, words and music. Nancy Mramor Ph.D. is a media and health psychologist, a Spiritual Fitness Coach, a speaker and award winning author, of the book Spiritual Fitness.

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Taking Your Brain to the Gym

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Do you or your children or clients have difficulty with:

  • Comprehending both the details and the “big picture” of what is actually happening in a situation.
  • Moving and thinking at the same time, right/left confusion or lazy eye.
  • Stage fright or writers block.
  • Lack or organization and direction.
  • Old tapes and blocked patterns clouding what you see, hear, think and feel.

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Remember to Remember

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So many things come and go from our lives that we often don’t even have time to heal.  We may hold the grief and carry it for a long time without resolving it. The recent loss of the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Bob O’Connor, has many Pittsburghers searching for a way to honor Mr. O’Connor’s life and grieve the loss of him at the same time.  One thing is for sure.  The best way to accomplish both goals is to “Remember to Remember.”

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Handling Preoccupation with Appearance

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In our society we are constantly bombarded with images of perfect men and women with fast cars, perfect homes who never seem to age. The obsession in our culture with appearance is a multi-billion dollar industry with marketing geared toward keeping sales of diet and beauty products soaring. We become preoccupied with looking like the models we see in the media and lose sight of what is really important in our lives.

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Old Business

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Getting Old Business finished is one of the best ways to start a new year.  When you have things that are unfinished, whether you are aware of it or not, you are always carrying them in the back of your mind.  Think of them as a backpack; you can?t see it but you know it is there.  Once is a while, you become aware of the weight of it, but since life is busy you just push old business out of your mind and don?t deal with it. This not only takes up mental energy that you are using to hold the business, but it takes physical energy.  When the body has been using up energy for too long, it wears down.

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