Kids need love and attention, but they also need healthy, calm, balanced parents in order to thrive. Though modern parenting advice tends to advocate for intense parenting styles, like attachment parenting, it’s important to draw a line between caring for children and hyper-focusing on them. When parents hyper-focus on their children, they create unrealistic expectations for themselves and inadvertently ...
Pause… Breathe… Smile… those are the 3 magic words I constantly try to hone in with my 5-year-old. Do they work? With reminders and on a good day, yes. Otherwise… not so much. Surprisingly, while trying to teach these to my son, I ended up using these words as my own personal motto to help stay calm and in control. As ...
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 ...
For the parents of overweight children, every day is a balancing act; on one hand, there is the natural desire ...
