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    Get better at homework

    1. Help them make a plan Develop a strategy for dealing with homework. On heavy homework nights or when there’s an especially hefty assignment to tackle, encourage your child to break up the work into manageable chunks. Create a schedule and make sure to take time for breaks. Once you find a plan that works […]

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    Through her daughter’s eyes

    GCW’s digital content editor Crystal Scretching relives her mother’s journey from the Navajo Indian Reservation to boarding school and eventually to Bay St. Louis. Sunrises overlooking the Navajo Indian Reservation (Rez) shone upon herds of livestock, colorful desert land, and little houses with no electricity, no running water. When I hear my mother talk about […]

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    Raising Up Girls

    Connie Rockco, center, is surrounded by her daughters at the family home in Biloxi: Tracie Strayham Jaclyn Rockco Ducote and Shelley Rockco Scarborough. “When I was very young, I wanted four children. After my first daughter was born, I decided two children were sufficient,” says Connie Rockco. “Shelley was 3 when Jaclyn was born. I thought our […]

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    Like mother, like daughter

    “We get told we look like twins/sisters every time we are out together.” Congratulations to Jennifer Warton, mother, pictured on right, and her daughter Kaleigh Rae. They won the 2018 Gulf Coast Woman Mother-Daughter Look-alike Contest! More than 200 duos entered this year, so choosing a winner was difficult. Jennifer is a Realtor with RE/MAX […]

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    Make Christmas break magical

    by Rebecca Ritchey Christmas break is right around the corner, which means Christmas carols, gifts, memories and the kids home for 10 days. Ten days! Most moms have grandiose plans for the holiday break, but it stays in the plans category. This year, make those plans happen. Here are five things to do to make […]

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    Moms need other moms

    by Rebecca Ritchey   Moms need to stick together. One of my friends is a young mom, a wife and a mother of three children, and she was diagnosed with breast cancer this year. I have watched other moms surround her with support in a number of ways when she had a double mastectomy and […]

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