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Harnessing the Gifts of Children with Attention Disorders
As a child, my mother would vex about how my "head was in the clouds" and how I needed to focus. In school, I used to wonder why, when the...
Harnessing the Gifts of Children with Attention Disorders
As a child, my mother would vex about how my "head was in the clouds" and how I needed to focus. In school, I used to wonder why, when the...
The Inevitable Link Between Anxiety and Divorce
Divorce can be tough on parents, but it’s even harder on their children. There’s no question that divorce causes significant stress for kids, often leading to anxiety, depression, regression, rebellious...
The Inevitable Link Between Anxiety and Divorce
Divorce can be tough on parents, but it’s even harder on their children. There’s no question that divorce causes significant stress for kids, often leading to anxiety, depression, regression, rebellious...
Should You Homeschool a Child With Anxiety?
Ensuring a sound education for your child ranks up there with meeting their basic needs. You stress over their academic accomplishments and when you see their struggle your heart breaks....
Should You Homeschool a Child With Anxiety?
Ensuring a sound education for your child ranks up there with meeting their basic needs. You stress over their academic accomplishments and when you see their struggle your heart breaks....
How to Help a Child With Selective Mutism
You hear your child talk and laugh all the time at home, but their teacher is baffled by their total silence in the classroom. Your normally chatty kid looks frozen...
How to Help a Child With Selective Mutism
You hear your child talk and laugh all the time at home, but their teacher is baffled by their total silence in the classroom. Your normally chatty kid looks frozen...
My Child Was Diagnosed With an Attention Disorder...Now What?
The realization that my kid had what's referred to in medical circles as an attention deficit disorder was greeted with mixed – and opposing – feelings. On the one hand,...
My Child Was Diagnosed With an Attention Disorder...Now What?
The realization that my kid had what's referred to in medical circles as an attention deficit disorder was greeted with mixed – and opposing – feelings. On the one hand,...
Anxiety and the Brain
We've all felt it – the cold, bony fingers of anxiety tightening around our throat or pressing on our chest. It's certainly been an old friend of mine. Countless times,...
Anxiety and the Brain
We've all felt it – the cold, bony fingers of anxiety tightening around our throat or pressing on our chest. It's certainly been an old friend of mine. Countless times,...
How to Help Your Child Overcome Performance Anxiety
You make a last-minute check of the dance bag for essential items while telling your daughter it’s time to head out the door. You expect to hear “OK, Mom—coming” but...
How to Help Your Child Overcome Performance Anxiety
You make a last-minute check of the dance bag for essential items while telling your daughter it’s time to head out the door. You expect to hear “OK, Mom—coming” but...
How to Make a Child With Anxiety Feel Special
Being a parent to a child with anxiety means learning to ride out the storm on a minute-by-minute basis. You want to be supportive and encourage your child to participate...
How to Make a Child With Anxiety Feel Special
Being a parent to a child with anxiety means learning to ride out the storm on a minute-by-minute basis. You want to be supportive and encourage your child to participate...
Brillia 5 Pillars: Taking Brillia
For children, teens and adults struggling with attention and anxiety issues, every day can be a challenge. It's easy to feel lost and overwhelmed by the options offered — pharmaceuticals...
Brillia 5 Pillars: Taking Brillia
For children, teens and adults struggling with attention and anxiety issues, every day can be a challenge. It's easy to feel lost and overwhelmed by the options offered — pharmaceuticals...
Would Learning an Instrument Help or Add to My Child’s Anxiety?
Studies show that playing a musical instrument can enhance several functions of a young person’s brain, including long-term memory, reaction time and speech processing. But when your child has anxiety...
Would Learning an Instrument Help or Add to My Child’s Anxiety?
Studies show that playing a musical instrument can enhance several functions of a young person’s brain, including long-term memory, reaction time and speech processing. But when your child has anxiety...
Improving Social Anxiety Starts with Eye Contact
For a child or teen with social anxiety — which affects 6.8 percent of the U.S. population —making eye contact with others can be a stressful and challenging situation. A...
Improving Social Anxiety Starts with Eye Contact
For a child or teen with social anxiety — which affects 6.8 percent of the U.S. population —making eye contact with others can be a stressful and challenging situation. A...
How Spending Time in Nature Offers Natural Anxiety Relief
For those who struggle with anxiety — around 18 percent of the U.S. population — spending time in nature can offer scientifically proven relief. Shinrin-Yoku, or the Japanese art of forest bathing, is...
How Spending Time in Nature Offers Natural Anxiety Relief
For those who struggle with anxiety — around 18 percent of the U.S. population — spending time in nature can offer scientifically proven relief. Shinrin-Yoku, or the Japanese art of forest bathing, is...
What Situational Anxiety Is and How You Can Help
While fleeting anxiety can be a normal part of life, for some kids it can be so intense as to interfere with their happiness and productivity. Sometimes this anxiety comes...
What Situational Anxiety Is and How You Can Help
While fleeting anxiety can be a normal part of life, for some kids it can be so intense as to interfere with their happiness and productivity. Sometimes this anxiety comes...
Will My Child’s Anxiety Get Worse with Age?
If left untreated, children with anxiety disorders are at higher risk to perform poorly academically, miss out on important social experiences and engage in substance abuse. That’s why noticing anxiety early and offering support can...
Will My Child’s Anxiety Get Worse with Age?
If left untreated, children with anxiety disorders are at higher risk to perform poorly academically, miss out on important social experiences and engage in substance abuse. That’s why noticing anxiety early and offering support can...
The IDEA Act and Your Child's Educational Rights
Once you learn your child might require some special education services, it’s easy to fall into the abyss that obtaining assistance can be. Fortunately, special provisions exist for children who...
The IDEA Act and Your Child's Educational Rights
Once you learn your child might require some special education services, it’s easy to fall into the abyss that obtaining assistance can be. Fortunately, special provisions exist for children who...
The Link Between Dyslexia and Anxiety
When a child struggles with dyslexia, a learning disorder that affects how a child reads or interprets words, they may struggle with anxiety, too. Teachers and parents continually advise children that...
The Link Between Dyslexia and Anxiety
When a child struggles with dyslexia, a learning disorder that affects how a child reads or interprets words, they may struggle with anxiety, too. Teachers and parents continually advise children that...
Explaining Anxiety to Your Child
In today’s “go, go, go” culture, anxiety, and stress seem to be a typical part of adult life. Indeed, anxiety is a normal emotion, but for younger children, feeling anxious...
Explaining Anxiety to Your Child
In today’s “go, go, go” culture, anxiety, and stress seem to be a typical part of adult life. Indeed, anxiety is a normal emotion, but for younger children, feeling anxious...
Tips on Conducting Conflict Resolution for Kids
As much as we’d like to avoid it, conflict is a normal part of childhood, especially between siblings and among classmates and friends. Teaching children the strategies below will help...
Tips on Conducting Conflict Resolution for Kids
As much as we’d like to avoid it, conflict is a normal part of childhood, especially between siblings and among classmates and friends. Teaching children the strategies below will help...
Are Gifted Children More Susceptible to Anxiety?
If your gifted child or teenager experiences anxiety, you may wonder whether high intelligence or ability may cause those worries or stress. While it’s a valid question, the answer is not black...
Are Gifted Children More Susceptible to Anxiety?
If your gifted child or teenager experiences anxiety, you may wonder whether high intelligence or ability may cause those worries or stress. While it’s a valid question, the answer is not black...
How to Help Your Child with Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is more than just a fear of interacting with people. It is characterized by anxiety in a number of situations and can lead to problems in social relationships...
How to Help Your Child with Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is more than just a fear of interacting with people. It is characterized by anxiety in a number of situations and can lead to problems in social relationships...
Caring for Yourself, So Your Anxiety Doesn't Become Theirs
I remember it well — the day I came within inches of a total nervous breakdown. It was a gloomy, stormy day. Stormy weather outside the house (no walking to...
Caring for Yourself, So Your Anxiety Doesn't Become Theirs
I remember it well — the day I came within inches of a total nervous breakdown. It was a gloomy, stormy day. Stormy weather outside the house (no walking to...