Angry Kids and the Parents Who Love Them

ASK YOURSELF AS A PARENT: Does your child’s alarm clock turn a wake-up call into a moody battle? Does your teen drop all his clothes on the floor so you can’t walk through his room? Or do you feel like your teen is freezing you out with a glare in his eyes? How do you…

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The Importance of Play for Children

Play is a Child’s Work: How Parents Encourage Creativity and Learning Play is how children learn, discover, express curiosity, and communicate. Different kinds of play bring out different aspects of our kids’ personalities and points of view. Parents can help their children learn, make new discoveries, and enjoy adventures by encouraging play time activities. When…

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Toddler Tantrums

WHAT IS A TANTRUM? A tantrum occurs when a child’s whole system of managing feelings and thoughts collapse. It is a communication that happens suddenly. The child may lay down on the floor, scream, kick her feet, throw her arms about, and twist her body violently. If the parent becomes frantic, so will the child.…

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Overstimulation in Infancy

  OVERVIEW Overstimulation in children is a broad topic ranging from overstimulation in infants to children on the spectrum, to children in war-torn countries, and other traumatized children such as those faced with terrors due to 9-11, including post-traumatic-stressors.   To narrow the topic, I will focus on infancy. Healthy infants from the first few…

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