Expert Parenting Articles
Parenting is hard work! No matter what your profession is, being a parent is your most important & rewarding job. These fact-filled expert articles offer parenting tips, life-changing insight and easy ways to become a better parent. No matter the age of your child, there is no better time than now to learn about the most effective parenting styles and apply them to your own life. Being a parent isn’t easy, but with helpful hints and practical advice from parenting experts and child psychologists you can become a more confident parent and raise children who are happy, healthy and independent.
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 ...
Helping Kids Deal with Parents’ Unemployment
Unemployment can be scary for adults who are going through it. What about your children? They may not know the particulars but they know that ...
Working Mother Advice: How to Manage Your Kids’ After-School Activities
Working mothers often have a double duty. They work a 9-to-5 job (or some other shift); then they get home and have to take care ...
Secrets of an Organized Mom
Stressed out mothers and many others want to know the secrets of being an organized mom. They may wonder if being organized as a mother ...
How to Survive Sleepovers
It’s inevitable. If you have children they will eventually ask if they can have a friend, or friends, spend the night. For those who remember ...
Working Mother’s Fitness Tips
Working mothers have a lot to do. Not only do they spend at least eight hours a day working outside of the home, they also ...
Offer Rewards and Get your Kids to Tidy Up
Raise your hand if you want to clean? No hands were raised. When you ask your kids they won’t raise their hands either. But, if ...
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 ...
Current Criteria for Diagnosing Eating Disorders May Exclude Sickest Patients
A new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital has found that many patients who do not meet full ...
Rethinking ‘‘Generation Me’’
In a scientific analysis of approximately one-half million high-school seniors over three decades, Brent Donnellan and Kali Trzesniewski of the University of Western Ontario argue teens ...
Antidepressants Cut Risk of Hospital Re-admission for Suicidal Youth
Suicidal adolescents who were prescribed an antidepressant medication during inpatient psychiatric hospital treatment were 85 percent less likely than others to be readmitted within a ...
New Research Uncovers How Antidepressants Work
Reserachers at Queensland Brain Insitute in Australia have discovered the class of drugs that increase levels of a neurotransmitter known as ‘norepinephrine’ triggers neurogenesis – ...
How to Control Acne in Your Teen
Teenagers are famously unkind to each other, and having an acne problem is like having a target on your back. Cruel comments and poor ...
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 ...
What Are Your Kids Doing Right Now?
I am a child of the 50’s when radio, record players and TV were the main sources of media entertainment within the home. I spent ...
