Positive Parenting: 7 Tips to Creating a Harmonious Parent-Child Connection
Positive Parenting: 7 Tips to Creating a Harmonious Parent-Child Connection Harmony. If you’ve ever listened to an acapella quartet or a beautifully orchestrated symphony, you understand harmony. The harmonious interaction of voices and/or instruments leaves you uplifted, enchanted, and peaceful. There are no harsh sounds that prick your nerves and make you cringe… at least,…
Read MoreGet Smart About Nutrition: How The Right Diet Can Reduce ADHD Symptoms
How The Right Diet Can Reduce ADHD Symptoms Sweets. It’s probably fair to say that you’re familiar with the obvious—and sometimes scary!—effects sugar can have on your child. And it’s probably also no overstatement that, as a concerned parent, you would rather handle your child’s ADHD naturally than resort to medication. Did you know that…
Read More5 Steps to Help You Reduce Test Anxiety and Make It Through Your Finals
Reduce Test Anxiety and Make It Through Your Finals The moment you enter the classroom you feel that dread rising within you. Today is the big test—the finals! You glance around to gauge how everyone else is feeling. Some chat with excitement, some smiling faces, and a few in quiet contemplation. You wonder, “are they…
Read MoreDo You Suffer From Poor Motivation? – Here’s What You Can Do
Do You Suffer From Poor Motivation? Sometimes, tackling a project or task can seem like a trek through a desert. You start full of hope and motivation, focusing on the distant mountains where the goal of your journey lies. But with time, the pressure gets to you. Like the heat of the sun it beats…
Read MoreAre Racing Thoughts Keeping Your Teen Awake? – 7 Helpful Tips
Are racing thoughts keeping your teen awake? Thoughts Keeping Your Teen Awake? Somehow, society has painted the picture that all teenagers are compulsive night owls and sleep in every morning. While that may be so for many on weekends, parents shouldn’t quickly assume their teen is on the way to becoming a classic slacker just…
Read More4 Steps to De-Escalate Your Teen and Stop the Screaming Matches
De-Escalate Your Teen and Stop the Screaming Matches “You’re not being fair!” “Just DO IT!” “I’m not a child anymore. Stop telling me what to do!” “If you’d act like an adult, I wouldn’t have to tell you what to do!” “Just leave me ALONE!!” The words are followed by a door slamming. — Sounds…
Read MoreWhen Your Teen Self-Isolates – 5 Ways to Help With Teen Social Anxiety
5 Ways to Help With Teen Social Anxiety Socializing is a huge part of being a teenager. But what if your teen fears social situations, such as speaking in front of a group or being involved in any activity that makes them the center of attention? And worse even, what if that fear becomes so…
Read MoreIt’s Normal to Make Mistakes! – 4 Tips to Help Your Perfectionistic Child
4 Tips to Help Your Perfectionistic Child Does your child… …expect nothing less than an A in all their classes? …view criticism as a personal attack? …avoid new projects because they’re worried they’ll fail? Of course, there’s nothing wrong if your child wants to do their very best. But it’s self-defeating when they strive after…
Read MoreFood, Serotonin, and Depression: Improve Your Diet and Boost Your Mood
Improve Your Diet and Boost Your Mood You’re feeling down, out-of-sorts, and unmotivated. Before you know it, you find yourself binging on chocolates, pastries, and soft drinks. Somehow, stuffing yourself with sweets and starchy carbohydrates chases that dark cloud that’s been hanging over your head away… at least for a time. Why? The Connection Between…
Read MoreParenting with Insight: Facts About Teen Depression and How You Can Help
Facts About Teen Depression The teenage years can bring a lot of ups and downs. In general, many teenagers have a tendency to be moody, unruly, self-centered, and highly emotional. All of which falls under normal adolescent behavior. But at times, there can be more. Some teens battle with bouts of depression. They’re unmotivated, indifferent,…
Read MoreCutting to Cope: Understanding the Mechanism Behind Self Injury
Mechanism Behind Self Injury Absentmindedly and unintentionally, you step into the bathroom to put up some freshly folded towels just as your daughter exits the shower. Her eyes widen. She quickly wraps the towel around herself. But you’ve already seen what she’s trying to conceal. – Scars and partially healed wounds. You freeze and stare…
Read More10 Simple and Effective Ways to Motivate the Unmotivated
Effective Ways to Motivate the Unmotivated It’s staring at you. Looming over you like Mount Everest. That monumental task you know needs to get done, but that you’re completely unmotivated to tackle. You skirt around it. You try to ignore it. But it’s still there. Steadily bearing down on you, mocking you. You know the…
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