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		<title>Playing with your Children</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Amar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Playing with children has always come so naturally to me that I never realized that it’s not something that feels natural to MOST parents! It’s only once I had my nephews and observed closely to their interactions with their parents that I truly realized that this is a challenge to most adults! Play is SUCH ... <a title="Playing with your Children" class="read-more" href="https://www.missmancy.com/blog/playing-with-your-children/" aria-label="More on Playing with your Children">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Working on Presence with your child</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Amar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The only moment we have is NOW. We can’t wait for circumstances to be perfect in order to show up as the parent we want to be for our children. It’s not, when I have more time, when I won’t have to go to work, when I get all my errands done, when I’ll feel ... <a title="Working on Presence with your child" class="read-more" href="https://www.missmancy.com/blog/working-on-presence-with-your-child/" aria-label="More on Working on Presence with your child">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Becoming the Observer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Amar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to become the observer and how does this serve me as a parent (and as a human on this planet!)&#160; This concept has been coming up several times in the past few weeks during my parenting sessions.&#160; Becoming the observer means several things. For one, it puts you in the position ... <a title="Becoming the Observer" class="read-more" href="https://www.missmancy.com/blog/becoming-the-observer/" aria-label="More on Becoming the Observer">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Promote Integration in Your Family</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Amar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  The past two weeks I&#8217;ve been working on a Holiday Gift Project with my vocational skills students. I can&#8217;t begin to tell you how excited they were when they had their first sale! It made me think about the importance of productivity in our society. Somewhere along the way, we bought into the idea ... <a title="Promote Integration in Your Family" class="read-more" href="https://www.missmancy.com/blog/promote-integration-in-your-family/" aria-label="More on Promote Integration in Your Family">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Outside the Box Thinkers!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Amar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 22:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are we teaching our children to think inside or outside the box? Is there a box?! ; ) An important social skill for our children is flexibility. Many children can be strong-willed and with that can come rigidity. They have time “flexing their brains” to shift from one activity to the next or one thought ... <a title="Outside the Box Thinkers!" class="read-more" href="https://www.missmancy.com/blog/outside-the-box-thinkers/" aria-label="More on Outside the Box Thinkers!">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Co-regulate to Self-regulate.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Amar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2021 16:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Role you Play in Your Child&#8217;s Regulation. Regulation is a tricky thing. We take for granted all the pieces that&#160; have to come together in order to see our children calm, happy and in the moment. There are so many pieces that come together in this one moment! Just to name a few: personality, ... <a title="Co-regulate to Self-regulate." class="read-more" href="https://www.missmancy.com/blog/co-regulate-to-self-regulate/" aria-label="More on Co-regulate to Self-regulate.">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It’s OK To Feel Angry</title>
		<link>https://www.missmancy.com/blog/its-ok-to-feel-angry/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Amar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 23:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is an emotion? An emotion is a guidance scale to let us know how far apart we are from our true selves. At its core our true nature is happiness, love, open hearted-ness (think of a young infant) When we experience an emotion, any emotion, this is an indicator whether we are closer or ... <a title="It’s OK To Feel Angry" class="read-more" href="https://www.missmancy.com/blog/its-ok-to-feel-angry/" aria-label="More on It’s OK To Feel Angry">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Productivity over wellbeing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Amar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a life-long advocate for children&#8217;s wellbeing, this is a very real and vulnerable share for me but I know that many of my kids have been feeling the same way that I have lately without knowing how to verbalize their experience or even understand what is happening to them. It is this that gives ... <a title="Productivity over wellbeing" class="read-more" href="https://www.missmancy.com/blog/productivity-over-wellbeing/" aria-label="More on Productivity over wellbeing">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Do we really need to teach Eye contact?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Amar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many therapists and parents place a lot of emphasis on children making eye contact. The reason for this being that eye contact in our society represents interest, respect, fondness, attention, and engagement. Let&#8217;s look at how an Autistic child processes information so that we can understand from their point of view the challenge of making ... <a title="Do we really need to teach Eye contact?" class="read-more" href="https://www.missmancy.com/blog/do-we-really-need-to-teach-eye-contact/" aria-label="More on Do we really need to teach Eye contact?">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Paradox of Boundaries: Setting boundaries so your child can soar.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Amar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 15:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our children experience their reality very differently than the way we experienced our youth &#8211; They are asked to &#8220;grow up&#8221; more quickly than we did and are exposed early on to so much information, most of which they&#8217;re not yet ready to process. Now, more than ever, children need grounded parents so that they ... <a title="The Paradox of Boundaries: Setting boundaries so your child can soar." class="read-more" href="https://www.missmancy.com/blog/the-paradox-of-boundaries/" aria-label="More on The Paradox of Boundaries: Setting boundaries so your child can soar.">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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