fbpx

NEW Parenting Course: Transform Your Parenting Skills with Holistic Positive Parenting™

Child Development

5 Tips for Keeping Your Kids Safe When Home Alone

While some states have laws about the minimum age a child can be left home alone without it being considered neglect, as a parent you’re ...

Healthy Eating Starts at Family Meals

All parents want their children to grow up to be fit, healthy, and strong. One way to ensure their well-being is to encourage your teenager ...

4 Tips for Your Child’s Academic Success

Academic success is important in a child’s life as it will help to shape their future. There are many things you can do to help ...

How to Spot Signs of Hearing Problems in Toddlers

Is your toddler just not listening or do they have a hearing problem? Are they ignoring you or not actually hearing you? How can you ...

5 Manners to Teach Your Kids

Everyone wants a well-mannered child. But with all the responsibilities that parents are already juggling on a daily basis, teaching your child right from wrong ...

When to Consider Speech Therapy

When a child doesn’t reach a milestone “on time”, it can make parents anxious. Even though children develop at different rates, it can still be ...

The Family That Eats Together Stays Healthy Together

Recent studies have shown that not only do children like to sit down at the dinner table and eat a meal with their parents, but ...

Storytelling for Children

From babyhood to the early teens, children love to hear a good story. Without the use of books, telling stories takes on a different dimension. It ...

Sports Psychology 101

Since so many of our articles and blogs are devoted to childrens’ problems and pathologies, I thought I would range outside of that territory to ...

Easy Chore Ideas for Elementary School Kids

Are you wanting to implement more chores into your kids’ time at home? Many parents today are looking for ways to teach their kids to ...

Sure-Fire Ways to Get Your Teen to Read Every Day

With advances in technology, reading is becoming a lost art. More and more kids are finding other activities to engage in. what can you do ...

Having the Puberty Talk

Puberty is one of the most dramatic periods a person undergoes in his life.  It is the transition from childhood to adulthood.  Our bodies go ...

Mother and Daughter Bonding Ideas

You’ve often heard of ‘Mama’s boys’ and ‘Daddy’s girls’ which may lead you to believe it’s not possible for moms to have special relationships with ...

Two and Three-Year-Old Children are Excellent Negotiators

Torgeir Alvestad, a researcher from the University of Gothenberg in Sweden, has written a fascinating thesis paper based on studying the play of two and ...

ADHD and Pesticide Exposure

A recent study published in the June online edition of Pediatrics showed that children with higher levels of organophosphate pesticide metabolites in their urine were at ...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 101

What is a child and adolescent psychiatrist? As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, my job is to evaluate and treat individuals with psychiatric disorders. Child ...