If you find yourself concerned about your child's tendency to give up in frustration and proclaim himself unable to complete tasks or engage socially with his peers, the skill of metacognition — a technical term used to describe the act of understanding your thought process — may be able to help. Metacognition allows children to deconstruct challenging situations, figuring out why they ...
Children, as any parent knows, can be baffling and unpredictable; they may tantrum seemingly out of nowhere, or develop stubborn behaviours (such as hitting a sibling or adamantly refusing to tidy up after themselves) and maintain them irrespective of the consequences and the pleas of adults. When such events occur, parents are invariably left wondering, “Why? Why is my child ...
Every child differs in his/her developmental capacity and pace. Some children learn to speak earlier than others. Some learn ...
As a psychologist living and working in Toronto, where 51% of residents were born outside Canada, I deal with immigration related ...
While most of the issues adopted children face while growing up differ little from the challenges experienced by non-adopted children, ...
