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Child Life Specialist Encounter Post NICU
Guest post from Rebecca Wood at Cheering on Charlie. Rebecca is the mother of a 21 month old little girl named Charlie. Her blog is about parenting and overcoming many challenges of Charlie’s premature...
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Parent’s Reflection on Child Life Services
As we continue to celebrate child life month, we have another guest blog post from an anonymous parent. As a first time mom you are learning right along side of your little one. I mean let’s be honest...
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Connecting with the community
All Kids Fair, Child Life Mommy I just had my first event at The All Kids Fair in Melville, New York. It was a great day to connect with other parents, professionals, educators and businesses to spread...
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How a Rare Disease Changed My Life
May 20th is Behcet’s Disease Awareness Day. This disease has been part of my life since I was a child. I can still place myself in that little seven-year old girl’s body, kneeling on my legs at the...
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Thanks For Helping Me Exceed My Goals
When I first set out to create a blog, my goal was to have 100 friends follow my posts. I had no idea that what I started to build would have a ripple effect. I now have close to 1,200 followers and...
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Christmas in July
We received this Christmas Jar, along with the book, during the holidays with the intention to fill it with leftover change and then donate it to a family or organization in need. Well, like every...
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The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has Superhero Strength
How amazing is the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge? I love that it is bringing so much awareness to an incurable illness. It is getting people talking, donating and sharing compassion to families that have...
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You’re Not Alone; Sisters Fighting Breast Cancer Together
This is a story about one woman’s courage to help fight her sister’s breast cancer. As a fellow child life alum at Bank Street, Kim is using the skills that she has learned to help support her sister,...
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3 Supportive Tips With a Health Diagnosis
Receiving a diagnosis of an illness or a disease is just the starting point for navigating the labyrinth style maze, filled with obstacles at every corner. It is a maze, that sometimes is...
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Play to Ease the Fears
Today was Blake’s 2 1/2-year-old wellness checkup with the pediatrician. He was little ball of nerves and making it clear that he didn’t want to go. Even with a personal child life specialist, who...
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Patience with ALL the Trick or Treaters
This is a great little reminder for all of us about the trick or treaters this Halloween.
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Child Life Specialists in the NICU
I am super excited to introduce you to, two amazing child life specialists and fellow bloggers, Caroline and Sydney at Connecting With Compassion. They wanted to share their tips and experience in...
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Advocating can be a challenge
Advocating can be a challenge at times. Especially when it comes to something medical. For some reason, we keep our mouths closed and follow the lead of a doctor or nurse. Maybe it is because we...
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Child Life Specialists Working With Adolescents
In a collaboration with Emily Murray, CCLS from Heal, Play, Love we decided to talk about a population of patients that can be bit more challenging to work with at times; adolescents. Emily has...
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10 things to say to encourage a preemie mom
Child Life Mommy:Child Life Specialists can play a powerful role in helping the parents of preemies. Originally posted on The Crunchy Lady: Hey there, did you know that today, November 17 is World...
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‘Tis the Season for Giving
It’s that time of year in thinking of others and giving back. With so many options of places to donate food, clothing and toys it can be a little overwhelming. I am here to speak up about child life...
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You Are Not Alone: Spotlight on Josh Cares
Children who hospitalized need more than medicine, they need to have a team of supporters offering emotional and psychosocial support during their stay. Typically parents would be at bedside 24/7...
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“That’s Child Life” New Promo Video
Have you seen the new CLC promo video about child life? Sometimes it can be tough to describe our profession because we provide so many services. This video sums it up in 5 minutes explaining the...
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Spotlight on Baby in Mind
The child life profession is continuing to expand beyond hospital walls. Private practices and alternative settings are filling the gaps in services to reach children and families in the community. I...
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Helping the Tiniest Patients Cope: Preemie Pacifier
The preemie babies are some of the most critical and the tiniest of patients to take care of. It can be very difficult to provide comfort and support to them with these large tubes and wires connected...
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