Parents, Take Charge!

Do you suspect your child has ADD or ADHD? Has your child already been diagnosed with this?  Are you medicating your child or considering medication? Are you wondering if there’s an alternative?  Would you like to take your child off medication?  Are you swimming in the negative murky waters of guilt, shame, fear and confusion? [...]

April is Stress Awareness Month and in the next few blogs I would love to share some thoughts and information with you about this critically important issue.  Here is the first piece of information you might have not thought about.  Stress and joy cannot co-exist.   What this means is that the higher your stress levels are, [...]

Did you ever consider that the way in which you engage with your child, the words you use and the kind of conversations you have, can cause inflammation in the child’s body and brain?  We know that what children eat can cause inflammation and increase or decrease symptoms labeled as ADHD.  But do you know [...]

We all know that tummy aches in children can often be a sign of emotional distress.  The child may be feeling afraid or sad or angry and their tummy starts to hurt.   Or they may be nervous about a test or a speech and they describe this as having ‘butterflies in my stomach.’ So if [...]

Our children are growing up in an incredibly competitive world. From the moment that they wake up until they go to sleep, each and every day, they are competing, no matter how old they are. Think about it.  Starting from a very early age kids are continuously competing against others to show how smart they are.  Parents reinforce [...]

People ask me why I call my program  Parents,Take Charge! and Teachers, Take Charge!   ‘Take Charge of what?’ they ask me.   I tell them that it’s about parents and teachers Taking Charge! of the  wellbeing of their children’s bodies, brains and spirits. First and foremost parents and teachers need to Take Charge of the stressful, [...]

Now, more than ever, it is time for parents to take charge of the way that their children’s learning and behavior issues are being treated. Frightening numbers of children are struggling with issues like underachievement, low motivation, meltdowns, bullying, anxiety, behavior problems, depression, OCD, ADHD, autism, eczema, asthma, allergies, low immune system … and others. [...]

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 [...]

In my previous blog, If You Want To Know About Stress,  Ask the Kids,  I indicated that it was the first of a 3-part series on what children in a focus group told me about stress.   As I started to write this second part today, I realized that there is so much vitally important information [...]

Stress is the most ignored, most misunderstood and most dangerous condition that exists today.  Yet the reality is that your children are feeling enormously stressed and pressurized by all the expectations placed on them.   Chronic  stress triggers physical and chemical changes in our body and brain which leads to behavior and learning problems, as well as [...]