Your Ultimate Guide for Healthy Living

We have been told the same story about summer for years. Fill it up. Sign them up. Keep them busy. Don't let them fall behind. Summer slide is real. Screen time is the enemy. Structured. Scheduled. Productive. And somewhere in all of that noise, we forgot that children are not machines. They are not behind. And summer was never supposed to be another race. What kids actually need in summer As a licensed recreational therapist, I spend a lot of time thinking about what childre

Ask most people what a therapist does and they'll have an answer. Ask them what a therapeutic recreation therapist does — and you'll usually get a blank stare. That's not a knock on anyone. It's a gap worth closing. Therapeutic recreation (TR) is a clinical health profession that uses recreation, leisure, and purposeful activity to improve the physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being of people with illnesses or disabling conditions. It is practiced in