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? [...]
We all want our kids to love life, learn easily, feel good about themselves and have fun. Unfortunately it is not that way for all kids. Think about being a child that finds learning difficult and that is too anxious and unhappy to be carefree. Life is not that much fun for them because they [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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