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7 Ways Teachers Can Help High School Students with Anxiety

7 Ways Teachers Can Help High School Students with Anxiety

Many teens feel anxious juggling the demands of school, sports, work, friends, and family. This anxiety often comes and goes, but for some these anxious feelings can be constant and...

7 Ways Teachers Can Help High School Students with Anxiety

Many teens feel anxious juggling the demands of school, sports, work, friends, and family. This anxiety often comes and goes, but for some these anxious feelings can be constant and...

Young Girl Experiencing Teen PMS Anxiety

How to Help Your Teen Daughter Cope with PMS Anxiety

In the blink of an eye, your little girl is now a teenager. It’s a new chapter in both of your lives—one that will bring challenges alongside celebrations that will...

How to Help Your Teen Daughter Cope with PMS Anxiety

In the blink of an eye, your little girl is now a teenager. It’s a new chapter in both of your lives—one that will bring challenges alongside celebrations that will...

6 Best Books for Kids with Anxiety

6 Best Books for Kids with Anxiety

When your child opens a book, she’s opening the door to a world of imagination. Once inside, she can fight dragons with a fiery sword or be a princess living...

6 Best Books for Kids with Anxiety

When your child opens a book, she’s opening the door to a world of imagination. Once inside, she can fight dragons with a fiery sword or be a princess living...

6 Yoga Poses Kids Can Do for Better Sleep

6 Yoga Poses Kids Can Do for Better Sleep

Yoga before bedtime works like a miracle. Your kids can do yoga for better sleep, but some poses may energize them more, especially if your kids are already wound up...

6 Yoga Poses Kids Can Do for Better Sleep

Yoga before bedtime works like a miracle. Your kids can do yoga for better sleep, but some poses may energize them more, especially if your kids are already wound up...

10 Bedtime Snacks for Better Sleep

10 Bedtime Snacks for Better Sleep

Getting adequate rest is key in reducing anxiety and regulating attention in children. Hunger is a common cause of interrupted sleep, which can affect mood and cognitive performance in children. To...

10 Bedtime Snacks for Better Sleep

Getting adequate rest is key in reducing anxiety and regulating attention in children. Hunger is a common cause of interrupted sleep, which can affect mood and cognitive performance in children. To...

The Dark Side of Sleep Deprivation in Teens and Children

The Dark Side of Sleep Deprivation in Teens and Children

Imagine waking up with the sun, going to school, participating in extracurricular activities, doing at least 45 minutes of homework, squeezing in some socializing time with friends and finally getting ready for...

The Dark Side of Sleep Deprivation in Teens and Children

Imagine waking up with the sun, going to school, participating in extracurricular activities, doing at least 45 minutes of homework, squeezing in some socializing time with friends and finally getting ready for...

Teenager Making a Healthy Nutritional Choice

Teenage Nutrition: How to Grocery Shop with Your Child

Discussing your teenager’s nutritional options with them is likely to evoke a little eye rolling. Although challenging, giving advice about what your teen should eat is one of those parenting...

Teenage Nutrition: How to Grocery Shop with Your Child

Discussing your teenager’s nutritional options with them is likely to evoke a little eye rolling. Although challenging, giving advice about what your teen should eat is one of those parenting...

Turmeric, the Anti-Anxiety Food

How to Use a Simple Spice Like Turmeric for Anxiety

Known for centuries for its brilliant yellow color and distinctive flavor, turmeric has long been a favorite culinary spice in India and the Far East. It has also been used...

How to Use a Simple Spice Like Turmeric for Anxiety

Known for centuries for its brilliant yellow color and distinctive flavor, turmeric has long been a favorite culinary spice in India and the Far East. It has also been used...

Parent and Child Stretching After Waking Up with Reduced Anxiety

Waking Up Kids to Avoid Anxiety

How you wake children from sleep can impact their day and psychological health. Waking up children in ways that don’t disrupt their R.E.M. stage is important in helping to reduce...

Waking Up Kids to Avoid Anxiety

How you wake children from sleep can impact their day and psychological health. Waking up children in ways that don’t disrupt their R.E.M. stage is important in helping to reduce...

The Benefits of Active Listening Exercises for Kids

The Benefits of Active Listening Exercises for Kids

Does the old saying “it went in one ear and out the other” apply to your child’s ability to hear and remember the gist of a conversation? Does your child...

The Benefits of Active Listening Exercises for Kids

Does the old saying “it went in one ear and out the other” apply to your child’s ability to hear and remember the gist of a conversation? Does your child...

4 Ways to Promote Mindfulness in Teens

4 Ways to Promote Mindfulness in Teens

Whether balancing schoolwork or chores, a first job or bullying by peers, the life of a teenager is stressful. Promoting mindfulness for teens can help them find peace because they learn to...

4 Ways to Promote Mindfulness in Teens

Whether balancing schoolwork or chores, a first job or bullying by peers, the life of a teenager is stressful. Promoting mindfulness for teens can help them find peace because they learn to...

5 Healthy Snacks for Teens With Anxiety

5 Healthy Snacks for Teens With Anxiety

Navigating life with a teenager can be tricky, especially when they are dealing with anxiety. You never quite know the reaction you’ll get to something you say. Keeping enough food in...

5 Healthy Snacks for Teens With Anxiety

Navigating life with a teenager can be tricky, especially when they are dealing with anxiety. You never quite know the reaction you’ll get to something you say. Keeping enough food in...

7 DIY Projects for Teens With Anxiety

7 DIY Projects for Teens With Anxiety

Your teen may have long forgotten the joy of coloring, getting messy with paints or passing the time with any variety of art project. Creating something from an array of...

7 DIY Projects for Teens With Anxiety

Your teen may have long forgotten the joy of coloring, getting messy with paints or passing the time with any variety of art project. Creating something from an array of...

Kid Playing Video Games

How I Weaned My Child Off Video Games

Video games quietly took up residence in my home over the summer. It started out innocently enough when my teenage daughter asked if she could download the application on her...

How I Weaned My Child Off Video Games

Video games quietly took up residence in my home over the summer. It started out innocently enough when my teenage daughter asked if she could download the application on her...

The Best Chores for Kids by Age

The Best Chores for Kids by Age

From the time children can understand what chores are, it is best to begin training them and developing healthy habits for discipline, motivation, and cleanliness. It can also help children...

The Best Chores for Kids by Age

From the time children can understand what chores are, it is best to begin training them and developing healthy habits for discipline, motivation, and cleanliness. It can also help children...

Tips for Talking to Children About Death

Tips for Talking to Children About Death

Has a beloved pet just passed away? Is an elderly relative nearing the end of his or her life? Or has a serious illness or accident claimed the life of...

Tips for Talking to Children About Death

Has a beloved pet just passed away? Is an elderly relative nearing the end of his or her life? Or has a serious illness or accident claimed the life of...

5 Fun Workouts for Kids with Anxiety and Attention Disorders

5 Fun Workouts for Kids with Anxiety and Attention Disorders

Exercise gives kids a creative outlet for turning excess energy into adventurous action. They can move, shake and run in ways that are limited only by their imagination. By helping...

5 Fun Workouts for Kids with Anxiety and Attention Disorders

Exercise gives kids a creative outlet for turning excess energy into adventurous action. They can move, shake and run in ways that are limited only by their imagination. By helping...

Kids Playing Video Games

Effects of Videogames on the Brain & Child Development

Playing video games can affect child and teen development both positively and negatively. Video games can help children develop problem-solving skills, fine motor skills, and strategy skills, and playing can...

Effects of Videogames on the Brain & Child Development

Playing video games can affect child and teen development both positively and negatively. Video games can help children develop problem-solving skills, fine motor skills, and strategy skills, and playing can...

Tips for Helping Teens With Anxiety

Tips for Helping Teens With Anxiety

You probably remember what it was like to be a teenager: exhausted by schoolwork or extracurricular activities, overwhelmed by peer pressure and the desire to fit in, consumed by the...

Tips for Helping Teens With Anxiety

You probably remember what it was like to be a teenager: exhausted by schoolwork or extracurricular activities, overwhelmed by peer pressure and the desire to fit in, consumed by the...

Cyberbullying: How It Can Affect Your Child’s Anxiety & Solutions to Help Stop It

Cyberbullying: How It Can Affect Your Child’s Anxiety & Solutions to Help Stop It

Our children are living in an electronically driven world where the tools they need to function come courtesy of a smartphone, tablet or laptop device. These electronic devices are used for everything...

Cyberbullying: How It Can Affect Your Child’s Anxiety & Solutions to Help Stop It

Our children are living in an electronically driven world where the tools they need to function come courtesy of a smartphone, tablet or laptop device. These electronic devices are used for everything...

How Much Sleep Do Kids Really Need? [Infographic]

How Much Sleep Do Kids Really Need? [Infographic]

If you’ve wondered how much sleep do kids really need, you’re not alone. There are multiple factors that play a key role in the quality of your child’s sleep, like proper...

How Much Sleep Do Kids Really Need? [Infographic]

If you’ve wondered how much sleep do kids really need, you’re not alone. There are multiple factors that play a key role in the quality of your child’s sleep, like proper...