 Robert Myers, PhD Psychologist |
 Pamela Myers, BSEd Educator |
 Gail Fernandez, MD Psychiatrist |
 David Paltin, PhD Psychologist |
 Desmond Lew, MD Pediatrician |
 George Tucker, PhD Psychologist |
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Welcome to our website designed to provide the information and tools parents need to understand their unique child/children and to enable them to help each child develop into the successful human being they were meant to be.
Our philosophy is built on years of child development research which shows that while each child is “pre-wired” with certain traits, temperament and abilities, it’s the interaction with their environment, especially their parents, which ultimately determines how these characteristics are manifested as they grow and develop into competent adults.
Development is the result of “transactions” between the child and his/her environment. Each transaction results in new learning which results in the development of skills and traits. The right frequency, quality and intensity of interactions between children and their environment will result in each child reaching his or her full potential.
If you have ever observed the progress of a major building project, you have seen that scaffolding is put up first and is used to provide support while the structure is being built. As the project reaches each stage of completion, the scaffolding is gradually removed as the building can support itself. The parent’s role in child development is to provide the scaffolding for their child and gradually remove it as the child attains skills and abilities while they move from one developmental stage to another.
Research has also shown that nurturing in the form of spending sufficient quality time with your child that is fun and enjoyable for parent and child leads to happy, healthy, successful kids. Kids also need structure. Parents are the key to helping children develop self-discipline and positive character traits.
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Featured Posts On Our Blog
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- Help! I'm raising a Pop Head!
- Posted 14 days ago
A cold soda on a hot day, maybe one during lunch on the weekend. . . What is the problem? The problem is that one day you find yourself giving in to your child’s request for a soda at dinner, and the next thing you know you find yourself having an unbelievable debate with your…
- Making Boys Better Men
- Posted 54 days ago
For the past twenty-five years, I have been doing support groups for men. I do not call them therapy groups because men generally do not like to go to therapy. It has been customary for men to enroll in greater numbers than women in alcohol or drug recovery programs, which are for some reasons perceived…
- Behavior & Medication Side Effects
- Posted 54 days ago
“Dust mite allergy,” the allergist told John and Tamara, consulting with them about their constantly scratching 10 year old who now had constant red marks on his arms and the backs of his hands, “You’ll have to wash everything, buy hypoallergenic covers, it’ll take a lot of housecleaning.” This sounded like a perfectly reasonable explanation…
- Vaccines Myths and Facts
- Posted 91 days ago
Vaccines are one of the main reasons why we enjoy a relatively disease-free and extended life span. The others are the creation of antiseptics and antibiotics. Before the invention of vaccines, people died of diseases such as Pertussis, Tetanus, Measles, and were crippled by Polio. Widespread epidemics would kill millions of people and wipe out…
- Video Game Addiction or Habit?
- Posted 105 days ago
I am often asked some variant of this question, and a few of my recent cases have stimulated me to explore more evidence-based answers to improve the quality of my response. As it turns out, many have written fairly extensively on the subject of how much video gaming is too much. It has been proposed…
- Importance of Family Time
- Posted 138 days ago
The goal of every parent is to raise a happy and well-adjusted child. There are thousands of books which provide information and advice on raising children successfully. Experts in their respective fields strive to give parents the most up to date information whether it is about health, nutrition, child development, education, or parenting. However, one…
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