The preliminary results of a research study was reported at the 2012 Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Boston. These results show that for the 10 top pediatric conditions, children accounted for 60% of patients but only 12% of the clinical drug trials. This is pretty scary when you consider that decisions about drug treatment for [...]
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 [...]
Today I sat across the table from a wonderful lady who lost her son 18 months ago to drugs. He was in his early twenties. Her journey to that terrible moment was one that hundreds of thousands of parents can sadly relate to. When he was six years old he was diagnosed with ADHD. [...]
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 In many instances this disappointment is due to the fact that we started off with outdated information which caused us to ask the wrong questions [...]
It seems that so many parents, teachers and medical and wellness practitioners have an outdated interpretation of what ‘stress’ actually is.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 [...]
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