- How to Deal With Teen Tantrums
Sep 3, 2009
You are familiar with the teen tantrum. One minute your teens are sane and logical; a minute later, they're all over you for "not understanding...
Category: Parenting
- How Neurofeedback Can Help Hyperactive Kids
Aug 12, 2009
Parents seeking effective and natural remedies for their hyperactive children should consult their physician regarding the use of neurofeedback.
Category: Parenting
- Art Therapy: A Form of Anger Management
Jul 17, 2009
Art therapy has long been seen as a form of therapeutic process for emotional disorders and anxiety. Van Gogh kept some of his demons at bay...
Category: Stress Management
- Art Therapy: Healing the Heart
Jul 15, 2009
We know that art therapy can help children with anger, stress and depression. Do you know that it can also help children with heart disease?
Category: Parenting
- Anxiety Disorder in Children: Why Treatment is Necessary
Jun 24, 2009
Thirty years ago, children who balked at going to school were assumed to be unmotivated and lazy. Most parents assumed that their children had a...
Category: Parenting
- What is the Connection between Nutrition and Child Behavior?
Jun 23, 2009
We have traded the immediacy of "live" foods for convenience and we have contaminated our children with a culture of food allergies and...
Category: Parenting
- Why Forgiveness is Important to Your Health
Jun 16, 2009
Our ancient brain builds fortresses and moats, dredging reptilian memories from mud and walling them within our cerebellum as conditioned reflexes,...
Category: Stress Management
- ADHD: A Problem in Time Perception
Jun 16, 2009
Research has demonstrated that the causes of hyperactivity and impulsiveness run the gamut from nutritional deficiencies to delay in brain...
Category: Parenting
- Is the Warrior Gene Responsible for Youth Violence?
Jun 11, 2009
Youth violence is a growing concern of our society. The question that has most often been asked is whether it is caused by nature (genes) or...
Category: Parenting
- Kids' Art: Anger Management That is Transformative and Fun
Jun 8, 2009
One form of anger management takes into consideration a basic law of nature: energy can be changed from one form to another. Fossil fuels, for...
Category: Parenting
- Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: How to Renew An Aging Brain
Jun 4, 2009
We know that care of the brain is essential for the grandkids. What about us--the almost or over sixtysomethings? New research shows that...
Category: Elderly Care
- Television Violence and Children: How to Tame the Media Beast
Jun 2, 2009
Television is so much a part of our lives we need to be concerned about its effect on our children. The problem is that violence in verbal and...
Category: Parenting
- Nature Deficit Disorder: The Connection between Nature and Behavior Problems
May 27, 2009
We need to take steps to restore our children to a connection with Nature that is essential for their positive growth and development.
Category: Parenting
- Separation Anxiety in Children: What's Normal and What's Not
May 26, 2009
One in every 25 children experiences some form of separation anxiety which can often be allayed by allowing the child to have a period of...
Category: Parenting
- Teen Suicide: What are the Risk Factors and Warning Signs?
May 21, 2009
As parents and teachers, we need to be more aware about the threat suicide is to our adolescent population. Teen suicide is a problem that requires...
Category: Parenting
- Turning Stress in Children into Resilience
May 19, 2009
We can help develop kids who can turn adversity inside out and reveal the blessing it hides. There is much that we as parents can do to help our...
Category: Parenting
- School Violence: A Case of Empathy Deficit
May 11, 2009
School violence is a sad reflection of the larger society. And we adults are largely responsible for what is now becoming an epidemic of violence...
Category: Parenting
- Cyberbullying: The New Online Threat
May 9, 2009
Cyberbullying is fast becoming a serious threat to young people because it can kill. Cases of adolescents committing suicide because of nameless,...
Category: Parenting
- Sleep Disorders: The Link to ADHD
Apr 22, 2009
Strong evidence shows that recognizing and addressing sleep disorders early may reduce the negative impact sleep loss has on the executive...
Category: Parenting
- Signs of Depression in Children
Apr 22, 2009
Children are not immune to stress and depression. Signs of depression in children are not easily identifiable; however, being alert to changes in...
Category: Parenting
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