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 ...
Though most parents understand that getting angry from time to time is simply a part of life, the unpredictability and intensity of a child's anger can still be profoundly unsettling. As such, many parents react strongly to their child's outbursts, either doing everything they can to pacify the child or punishing him severely in order to put a stop to ...
As most parents of boys are aware, the world of young men can be a confining, confusing place. Too many parents witness their sons giving up hobbies, learning to shun shows of affection in public, ceasing to focus on their academic success, and limiting themselves in various other ways which stifle their self-expression. Compounding this issue, the older boys get, ...
When a child has a learning disability, assisting him or her in finding academic success often becomes the primary focus of parents and educators. While this is admirable and helpful to the child's well-being, it is no less important to manage how the learning disability may be affecting the child's emotional life as well. Though not all children with a ...
Anxiety disorders are found in children much more often than many people realize; ten to twenty percent of all children ...
As a psychologist living and working in Toronto, where 51% of residents were born outside Canada, I deal with immigration related ...
The last two years have been a period of prolonged stress and isolation for many people, leading to an increase ...
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 ...
