Children and Teens Articles
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- The Development of Food Preferences
The development of food preferences begins very early, even before birth. And likes and dislikes change as we grow into adults. ...
- What To Do About Attention-Seeking Kids
The preschooler I observed in the grocery store yesterday was doing everything she could to get her mom’s attention. She whined. ...
- October is Domestic Violence Month
Domestic violence remains a huge and largely hidden problem. The purple ribbons you may have seen recently on car bumpers and people’s ...
- Demons in the Age of Light: A Memoir of Psychosis and Recovery
From the very first paragraph of Whitney Robinson's first book, Demons in the Age of Light: A Memoir of Psychosis and Recovery, her way with words is not only apparent, but glaringly so. Reading further, ...
- A Toolkit for School Success: 15 Study Tips for Students with ADHD
Because of the nature of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), students with the disorder ...
- Learning from Resilient Kids
In 1955, researchers Emmy Werner (University of California, Davis) and Ruth Smith (licensed psychologist, Kauai) began a longitudinal study that followed all of ...
- Debunking 6 Myths About Asperger Syndrome
The discovery of Asperger Syndrome (AS) dates back to 1944. Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger described the syndrome when he was ...
- College Life: Freshman Friends
Perhaps it has already happened to you.
In the first week or two of school, you quickly made a group out of the ...
- Runaway Mind: My Own Race with Bipolar Disorder
Runaway Mind by Maggie Reese was a thoroughly enjoyable, engaging and educational book filled with firsthand accounts of what life can be like with bipolar disorder. Maggie invites us into her life during this very ...
- Executive Function Problem or Just a Lazy Kid: Part 2
Executive development happens primarily in the prefrontal cortex, a region of the brain more sensitive to stress ...
- Executive Function Problem or Just a Lazy Kid: Part 1
Executive functioning is the new “hot” umbrella term used by teachers, counselors, and parents to describe a ...
- Supporting Your 20-Something Child into Healthy Adulthood
Are we doing enough to support our 20-somethings' transition into a healthy adulthood?
In some ways, today’s young adults have ...
- Understanding Recovery Avoidance in OCD
Dan would sit in a chair for hours, “stuck” and unable to move. He couldn’t eat, socialize, or enter most buildings. My ...
- Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Mainstream Classroom
Barbara Borosonʼs Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Mainstream Classroom: How to Reach and Teach Students with ASDs is an engaging, thoughtful and valuable resource for instructors, parents and administrators that enable them to reach, understand ...
- When You’re the New Kid in School
“So what’s your name new kid in school
tell me something do you feel lonely “
-- Song lyrics by The Donnas
Here comes September. You’ve been bracing yourself all summer. Here it is, the middle of your ...
- Mistaken for ADHD
After reading this book I believe the title says it all: “Mistaken for ADHD.” The author, Dr. Frank Barnhill, attempts to help parents, teachers, social workers and doctors who deal with adolescents and young children ...
- Home-School Collaboration for Children with Learning Disabilities
The transition into elementary school can be especially tough for our children with learning disabilities and challenging behavior. Whether ...
- How a Bully Is Made
The short- and long-term harm done to bullying victims has received much attention lately. The complex web of factors which go into ...
- Modeling Healthy Behavior for Your Children
It is important to recognize that parents can do everything possible and still have a child fall into unhealthy behaviors. But ...
- The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens
As the parent of a teen, you might feel exactly like this mother: “My daughter went to high school her first day as a freshman and never returned. I lost my baby!”
But you might ...
- Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch
It is hard to summarize and review Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch without an undercurrent of disgust, even when trying to temper it with pity. Derrick Lin’s self-published work, written in “a matter of ...
- Five Ways To Create a Secure Attachment with Your Baby, Without Sharing Your Bed
After giving birth the first time, I stayed home for three months, ...
- Reconnect with Your Family: Have a Hotdog
You may have seen the commercial on TV. A dad comes home, weary after a hard day of work. ...
- Daddies Do Make A Difference
“Congratulations on your wife’s pregnancy,” I said to an acquaintance I ran into in the parking lot at the grocery store. ...
- Constancy, Care and Courage: The 3 Cs of Successful Fathering
Fathers Day is coming around again. On the third Sunday of June in the U.S., ...
