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| Being a kid is hard enough, but being a kid with alopecia can be down-right difficult. Fortunately there are some fantastic organizations that offer support, friendships, and fun to kids who are dealing with this disease. There is the Children's Alopecia Project (the photo at left is from their camp), the I'm a Kid Foundation, and Locks of Love. There are cool dolls for kids of all ages, as well as web sites and coloring books.
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Oh yeah! Locks of Love! This organization is the biggie when it comes to providing wigs to kids with alopecia. They are much beloved by the alopecia and medical hair loss communities, and with very good reason. Here is a little blurb from their website:
Locks of Love is a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss. We meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics. Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure. The prostheses we provide help to restore their self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers.
Locks of Love was featured in a recent issue of Seventeen Magazine. You can click on the magazine cover to watch a video of four teens who donated their hair to help kids with alopecia and other forms of medical hairloss.
If you are under 18 and can't afford a good quality hairpiece, you owe it to yourself to consider applying with this wonderful group.
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Timez Attack is an amazing new video game exclusively for kids to easily learn multiplication tables. It's as beautifully rendered and entertaining as any top video game, yet as effective as endless flash-card drilling. We include a link to it here only because we have seen it work wonders. Ellie's 7(!)y.o. nephew, who is in special tutoring for his grades, just learned all the times tables (2-12) in a couple months. And he begged to play almost every day. They have a free version as well, so there isn't any reason not to try it if you have a child struggling with multiplication, or one who will be facing it in school soon.
Great Books For Kids (and maybe the school library):
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