Parents, Take Charge!

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 [...]

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, [...]

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  In many instances this disappointment is due to the fact that we started off with outdated information which caused us to ask the wrong questions [...]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

When I asked a focus group I conducted with kids between 7 and 11 years of age, what their top three stresses are, they all agreed the No. 1 stress in their lives is achievement stress, as discussed in my previous blog,  The Lower the Stress, the Higher the Grades.  I could have guessed that,  [...]

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 [...]

If you want to know the real truth about anything, described in graphic and honest detail, ask kids.  That’s exactly what a TV station and I did in South Africa – we conducted a focus group with children between the ages of seven and twelve to discover how they interpret stress and what they do [...]