I promised you some important facts about stress during this stress awareness month. In my last blog I wrote about how stress cancels joy. Here are more very important facts: Stress in children is currently a largely unrecognized and untreated problem and is reaching epidemic proportions. This high level of stress is the trigger for [...]
A mom spoke to me recently about her pre-school son. When she described his symptoms, I told her, “Your son is showing signs of stress. We need to find out where this stress is coming from.” “How can that be? She asked horrified. “He is only three years old! What has he got to be [...]
So often we find ourselves making decisions and trying treatments that do not bring the hoped-for result when trying to help our children overcome their learning, behavior or mood challenges. In many instances this disappointment is due to the fact that we started off with outdated information which caused us to ask the wrong questions [...]
It seems that so many parents, teachers and medical and wellness practitioners have an outdated interpretation of what ‘stress’ actually is. The widespread belief is that when the child is uptight and emotional about something, this causes stress. Yet in so many cases what actually causes stress is not the emotion, it is something unhealthy [...]
Welcome to the Parents, Take Charge! ™ Blog This is my first blog for the Parents, Take Charge! ™website and so I would like to say to anyone that is reading this, Welcome! I hope we are going to have a lasting and meaningful relationship! My intention with this blog and those that will follow [...]
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