Parents, Take Charge!

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 [...]

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 [...]

  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  In many instances this disappointment is due to the fact that we started off with outdated information which caused us to ask the wrong questions [...]

This blog should definitely get you thinking!   We have all heard the saying that perception equals reality.  So it would be a good idea for us to do a reality check, by checking our perceptions, as often as possible.   Here’s an opportunity for you to check the way you perceive your child.  After doing the [...]

I can still see this father, sitting on the couch in my office, looking  so sad and anxious as he asked me, “Dr Gluckman, where is my little boy?   The teachers are happy since he is on medication but he is not the same little boy he was before”,   Then there is the mother who [...]

   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 [...]