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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 6 Top Breakfast Foods for Kids with Attention Disorders
Breakfast is important, because the brain needs fuel to function properly. Our bodies need food to make enough energy to get through our days. If your child suffers from an...
The 6 Top Breakfast Foods for Kids with Attention Disorders
Breakfast is important, because the brain needs fuel to function properly. Our bodies need food to make enough energy to get through our days. If your child suffers from an...
6 Foods that Help Ease Anxiety in Kids
Proper nutrition is the first pillar to helping your child shine brighter, and you probably already understand the importance of an organic diet. But you may not know that foods can contribute...
6 Foods that Help Ease Anxiety in Kids
Proper nutrition is the first pillar to helping your child shine brighter, and you probably already understand the importance of an organic diet. But you may not know that foods can contribute...
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...
5 Great Vacation Ideas with Kids with Anxiety
We hear you — few things sound less relaxing or restorative than a vacation with the whole family. For kids with anxiety or attention issues, changing your normal routine could spell...
5 Great Vacation Ideas with Kids with Anxiety
We hear you — few things sound less relaxing or restorative than a vacation with the whole family. For kids with anxiety or attention issues, changing your normal routine could spell...
The Best Foods for Sick Kids [By Illness]
Being sick is hard enough, but watching our little ones suffer is even worse. While we may wish we could magically take away their pain, most often it takes time...
The Best Foods for Sick Kids [By Illness]
Being sick is hard enough, but watching our little ones suffer is even worse. While we may wish we could magically take away their pain, most often it takes time...
What to Do if Your Child Is Hanging with the Wrong Crowd
Have you noticed troubling changes in your child or teen? Negative behaviors can crop up after a change in schools, a move to a new neighborhood, or heightened levels of...
What to Do if Your Child Is Hanging with the Wrong Crowd
Have you noticed troubling changes in your child or teen? Negative behaviors can crop up after a change in schools, a move to a new neighborhood, or heightened levels of...
Why Do Kids Have Imaginary Friends?
It may be disconcerting the first time your child high-fives their an imaginary friend or engages in a full-blown conversation with them, but doctors advise not to worry. Studies show...
Why Do Kids Have Imaginary Friends?
It may be disconcerting the first time your child high-fives their an imaginary friend or engages in a full-blown conversation with them, but doctors advise not to worry. Studies show...
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...
How to Talk to Teens About Sex and Romance
As your child grows through the teenage years, they will find themselves romantically attracted to a special someone. From the basics of human reproduction to observing the romantic relationships of...
How to Talk to Teens About Sex and Romance
As your child grows through the teenage years, they will find themselves romantically attracted to a special someone. From the basics of human reproduction to observing the romantic relationships of...
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...
6 New Year's Resolutions for Kids
New Year’s is the ideal time to teach kids about the value of goal setting and intentional habits. Experts say that ages 7 to 12 are best for learning how...
6 New Year's Resolutions for Kids
New Year’s is the ideal time to teach kids about the value of goal setting and intentional habits. Experts say that ages 7 to 12 are best for learning how...
How Social Media Affects Teens
It seems everyone is on social media these days, and there’s a reason for that. Social media platforms and apps provide conversation, opportunities for friendship across vast distances and a...
How Social Media Affects Teens
It seems everyone is on social media these days, and there’s a reason for that. Social media platforms and apps provide conversation, opportunities for friendship across vast distances and a...
What Time Should My Kids Go to Bed?
It’s bedtime! These three little words can be the source of nightly chaos. Chances are bedtime is a struggle for you and your children. You want the best for your...
What Time Should My Kids Go to Bed?
It’s bedtime! These three little words can be the source of nightly chaos. Chances are bedtime is a struggle for you and your children. You want the best for your...
How to Tell If Your Child or Teen Is Hiding Their Anxiety
Many children and teens suffer from anxiety, but they may not realize it or may want to hide it from their parents. If your child or teen is hiding their anxiety...
How to Tell If Your Child or Teen Is Hiding Their Anxiety
Many children and teens suffer from anxiety, but they may not realize it or may want to hide it from their parents. If your child or teen is hiding their anxiety...
Important Things You Should Know About Bedwetting
Bedwetting is a concern that millions of families struggle with every night. Medical professionals refer to bedwetting as “enuresis” when it occurs in children who are old enough to be...
Important Things You Should Know About Bedwetting
Bedwetting is a concern that millions of families struggle with every night. Medical professionals refer to bedwetting as “enuresis” when it occurs in children who are old enough to be...