As the warm weather becomes more and more familiar, the excitement for summer is starting to build for kids and adults alike! The arrival of summer marks an exciting opportunity to incorporate seasonal activities for your family, whether it’s exotic vacations or just a change of pace to a more laid-back normal. But amongst the […]
After reading Dr. Becky’s Good Inside, I reflected on the feeling of shame in children, and how this feeling comes up often in parenting sessions. For many children, shame is a feeling that communicates, “I can’t be feeling this way”, and “I’m bad”. Shame freezes children, which might look like your child refusing to apologize, […]
When the final bell rings at the end of the last day of school, it’s easy to expect students to jump for joy and throw their papers in the air in celebration. However, there are more than a handful of students who struggle with the changes of routine that come with the transition into summer. […]
We have to prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child Tim Elmore Preparing vs protecting. This has been described as the greatest paradox of parenting. Not only are these the two essential tasks involved in parenting, but they have a strange relationship to each other. At times, protecting a child […]
“When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not join their chaos.” L.R. Knost At the outset it is important to understand what happens in the body when we experience anxiety. In part one, we talked about how anxiety evolved to keep us safe. Part of that evolutionary […]
Anxiety, especially among adolescents, is at an all-time high. For parents and young adults, understanding how anxiety functions, and strategies to address it, are the first steps to a less anxious future. The first thing to understand is that anxiety is a natural psychological and physiological phenomenon. Anxiety evolved to keep us safe from danger. […]
By Dr. Amanda Stoner It seriously is for me, the most wonderful time of the year. I love Christmas! And this year, I am feeling especially grateful for the gift of family. I am so excited to travel to Ontario where my family lives, where we will celebrate Christmas together. However, I realize that this […]