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Enter your Cover Kid by Sept. 30! If you’d love to see your cutie on our cover in 2021, enter our *VIRTUAL* Cover Kids Search by Sept. 30! We are looking for local kids ages 2 to 12 with big smiles and bright personalities to enter for a chance to star on a MetroFamily cover in 2021. Upload a photo, answer several “about me” questions and submit
a $10 fee, which gives your family access to a virtual swag bag with prizes, activities and coupons valued at more than $100! Readers will vote on their favorite Cover Kids submissions in early October, and the top five finalists
from each age category will undergo a virtual interview. We can’t wait to meet your Cover Kid cuties! Enter today at metrofamilymagazine.com/ coverkidssearch. Cover Kids is generously sponsored by Foto Arts Photography and Dental Depot.
Let’s talk math Practical advice to combat learning loss
Math can be a source of anxiety for kids … and for parents, too, if we’re being honest. With many parents concerned about the learning loss kids suffered in the spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we asked Jessie Yap, owner and director of Mathnasium of North OKC and South OKC, for tips to keep kids’ math skills fresh, encourage at-home learning, combat math aversion and inspire confidence. Find her stress-relieving advice at metrofamilymagazine.com/get-your- math-questions-answered-with-mathnasium.
Resources for LGBTQ+ youth and their families
In addition to sobering statistics about suicide attempts, the National Institute of Health also reports that ONE affirming adult can lower suicidality by 40 percent. Find affirming resources, local stories and a recent Raising OKC Kids podcast discussing how to normalize LGBTQ+ individuals with children at metrofamilymagazine.com/ okc-lgbtq-resources.
At MetroFamily, we affirm and support all families and all youth. In order to provide critical resources and combat statistics that LGBTQ+ youth are 4 to 5 times more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers, we are committed to helping normalize, represent and celebrate members of our LGBTQ+ community.
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