Children
Stay Calm to Successfully Handle Your Child’s Meltdowns
Your face flushes red. You nervously glance at the onlookers, thoroughly embarrassed about the scene your child is making. Refusing to listen to anything you say, your child is screaming, stomping, threatening, and thrashing about – completely out of control! Sounds like something you’ve experienced? Don’t feel guilty if you have a hard time loving…
Read MoreIt’s Back to School Time! Use These Tips to Ease the Transition
Is it that time again? Yes. The start of school is almost here. Time to get ready! It seems like you’ve just gotten into the swing of summer, and suddenly the beginning of school is on the horizon again. Where did the time go? Take heart. Most children and parents alike are reluctant to get…
Read MoreDoes Your Child Have Asperger’s? 10 Signs to Look For
“His words were gushing out like a waterfall. I watched him pace back and forth in the room, recounting the statistics he had read in a book about baseball – his great passion. I knew a lot of people didn’t understand him. They often found his behavior annoying and odd. “All his life, he had…
Read MoreWhy It’s Truly Time to Take a Timeout On Timeouts For Children
Timeouts are supposed to give parents and children a break from each other when emotions run high. But could timeouts be teaching the wrong lesson? Experts believe that when you ignore, remove, or withdraw parental attention, you can promote positive behavior in your child. But what if a child perceives this action as the removing…
Read MoreSocial Intelligence: Help Your Child Develop and Use Social Skills
One day, your 2nd grader comes home from school and declares that they will not be going back. All the kids in their class are just mean – they don’t want to share – and their best friend is now the most bossiest person on earth! You take a deep breath. Of course, you know…
Read MoreTics in Children: Why They Happen and What Can be Done
Tics in Children: Why They Happen and What Can be Done. Here it was – the dreaded math test. And with it came the oh-so-familiar urge. He could feel it getting stronger. He tried to control it. Tried to hold it in. But it kept building, until he just couldn’t hold it back any longer……
Read MoreYouTube and Your Children: Making it Safer & More Fun
“I didn’t believe it until I saw it for myself. A friend had asked me about a video my child had posted on YouTube. I checked it out. And there we were for all the world to see! – She had posted it without my knowledge and revealed far more than she should have about…
Read MoreIEP vs 504: Which Plan is Best for Your Child?
So you have a child with a disability? Of course, as any loving and caring parent, you want the best for your child, including the best possible education. When your child is about to start public school, though, you suddenly find yourself confronted with a slew of acronyms – IDEA, IEP, 504, and so on.…
Read MoreLearn Ways To Help Your Child Deal with Grief and Loss
Help Your Child Deal with Grief and Loss. Death is a fact of life. Each and every one of us is touched by grief and loss. By the time we reach adulthood, we’ve built up a series of coping frameworks we can use to help us make our way through the complex feelings a death…
Read MoreUnderstanding Childhood Phobias and How to Help Your Child Cope
Understanding Childhood Phobias. Fear is a natural response. It’s hardwired into our brains. In an emergency situation, the logical thought processes we use to navigate the complexities of life are simply too slow; seconds can mean the difference between survival and disaster. It’s a natural feature of the emotional “operating system” of our brains. But…
Read MoreHelping Improve Self-Esteem and the ADHD Child
Helping Improve Self-Esteem and the ADHD Child ADHD symptoms are not difficult to recognize. However, ADHD can wind up being a catch-all diagnosis for kids who have more energy or who require more individual attention to facilitate learning. These kids often get referred to as “Hyper” or as “Space cadets” but they are not truly ADHD…
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