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10 ways to help kids cope with Sandy

Kids look at the remains of a Kenwood

Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Kids look at the remains of a Kenwood Road house reduced to rubble by a gas explosion during Hurricane Sandy in Garden City. (Oct. 30, 2012)

If your home was damaged in Hurricane Sandy, your kids might be reeling from the loss. Here's something you can teach them as a coping mechanism: the catchphrase "people first, things second."

"That's so children can remember that the main thing is that you're safe, and that that's what you value as their parent," says therapist Don Sinkfield, founder of Help to Adjust...

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