Children

Positive Parenting: Setting Limits with your Child
January 11, 2021

Whether your child or children express it or not, rules and limits are good for them. Children thrive off consistency, and a great way to help provide consistency to your child is when you are setting limits for them....

How to Help Your Anxious Child
January 8, 2021

Hello all! A lot of the adults I see suffer from variations of anxiety and struggle to cope with it effectively. It is potentially even more frustrating for kids who have anxiety to develop the coping skills to process...

Returning to the School Building
October 16, 2020

Kids have been out of school for almost 7 months and families are now figuring out if, and when, their kids will return to school. The uncertainty of “what is best” can cause stress on families. Changes and transitions...

ADHD and Virtual Learning
August 31, 2020

The school year has started off virtually for over 50% of the nation’s students. According to an August 2020 study by Burbio, a digital monitoring platform, the larger the school district, the more likely K-12 students are to be...

Resetting the Household Through the Fall
August 10, 2020

Who thought we would still be social distancing, wearing masks, or not returning to work or school right now? It has been a huge adjustment to have our kids home all day and try to entertain them. Lots of...

Preparing Our Kids for Virtual Schooling
July 29, 2020

This year has been full of many changes for people of all ages. School as our kids have known it has taken a dramatic change and the changes are going to keep coming. So how do we prepare them...

Helping Kids Cope with Anxiety During COVID-19
July 29, 2020

The news, statistics, numbers…the outlets for negative information are endless. It’s important for us to find ways to avoid these negative information sources that are meant to inform us, but usually go beyond that to a point of scaring...

Wondering About a Learning Disability? 3 Signs for Parents
May 18, 2020

Parents often consult me about signs of a learning disability in their children. Sometimes difficulties are obvious, such as when an adolescent struggles year after year to pass math or when a child struggles to learn to read long...

Tele Play Therapy – How Could This Work?
April 14, 2020

Covid-19 has plunged the world into a period of unknowns.  Our sense of what is normal has been completely turned upside down and some days, it’s difficult to know what day of the week it actually is.  In the...

How to Manage Our Household Anxieties
March 30, 2020

So here we are, still at home with school remaining out, all due COVID-19 and keeping each other healthy and safe. Yet, how do we keep our household happy and calm with everyone home and getting annoyed? We have...