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Advocating for Your Child within the School System

April 26th, 2013
“I’ve had it.” The parent on the phone is incensed. “The teacher just won’t listen to me. My child needs more individual attention. She isn’t a bad kid. She just needs more help. She’s on an education plan ...

5 Warning Signs of Tipping Points in an ADHD Life

5 Warning Signs of Tipping Points in an ADHD LifeRecently, I’ve noticed a pattern in my clients that I call the “tipping point.” The tipping point is basically a time in people’s lives when, for various reasons, the strategies they have been ...

Getting Unhooked from Pain & Choosing Happiness

Getting Unhooked from Pain and Choosing Happiness Even teens who are popular and appear to be doing well may feel secretly isolated emotionally, harboring distress that seeks expression through self-destructive behavior. Neurobiology of Breaking Habits Self-destructive behavior patterns, such as addictions, are ...

Spring Break Cautions & Tips

Spring Break Cautions & TipsIt’s spring. Many colleges and universities in the U.S. adjourn for a week-long vacation sometime in the months of March and April. Originally intended as a mid-semester break from studies, it has evolved for many students into a ...

The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom

BOOK REVIEW.
“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” That’s the anonymous quote introducing the infant brain in The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom  by Louis Cozolino. As a mother and grandmother, I’ve found that the idea has been resonating deeply ever ...

The Secret Life of Pronouns

The Secret Life of PronounsSuicidal poets use “I” more. Presidential candidates who say “we” come across as arrogant and aloof toward their audience. In the week after September 11, 2001, bloggers’ use of “I” spiked to exponential highs. Curious? So was James Pennebaker. Dr. Pennebaker, psychology ...

Secretly Debilitated by OCD: Should You Hide It?

Secretly Debilitated by OCD: Should You Hide It?My son Dan suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder so severe he couldn’t even eat. He’d get stuck sitting in one particular chair, hunched over with his head in his hands for hours at a time, was tied to the clock ...

So You Think You Want to Take Online Classes?

So You Think You Want to Take Online Classes? If you are a college student or if you are an adult who simply wants to become better educated, it’s a good time to take stock and to think about what you may need to ...

Teens: Coping with Being Unwanted, Unloved and Unhappy

Teens: Coping with Being Unwanted, Unloved and UnhappySticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me. ~ Childhood rhyme Whoever made up that rhyme is just plain wrong. Consider these comments from letters to Psych Central’s "Ask the Therapist" column: “My folks just tell ...

Artificial Maturity: Helping Kids Meet the Challenge of Becoming Authentic Adults

BOOK REVIEW.
Dr. Tim Elmore is the founder of Growing Leaders, an organization that teaches middle school, high school, and college students how to become “authentic leaders.” He has presented internationally, written more than 25 books, and worked with students since 1979. As a result, he has plenty of experience with young people and in figuring out ...

OCD and Homeschooling

OCD and HomeschoolingAfter reading many of John Holt’s books in college and subsequently working with him in Boston, I became committed to the homeschooling movement. This was in the mid-'70s, way before homeschooling became an acceptable alternative to traditional schooling. When my three children were young, ...

When to Take Time Out from College

When to Take Time Out from CollegeThe semester has barely started and some students are already wondering whether they should be in school. They aren’t feeling motivated to study. They don’t like their classes or they like their classes okay ...

Taking OCD to College? Build a Support System

Taking OCD to College? Build a Support SystemWith students heading off to college this month, I can’t help but think back to when my son Dan was a freshman, fifteen hundred miles from home. He had been diagnosed with ...