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How to Help Your Grandchild with ADHD

ADHD runs in families. It is a genetic disorder and a family affair. If you are an adult with ADHD, it is highly likely that another relative of yours will have ADHD. For many adults this other someone is a … Continue reading →

By Laurie Dupar in Articles, Children, Education, Elderly Parents, Family, Kids and Family, Parenting, Self Esteem | No Comments » Tags: ADHD | coping with ADHD | family connections in ADHD | grandparenting

What Are You Doing To Prevent Catching A Cold or Flu?

What Are You Doing to Prevent Catching A Cold? TIPS FROM DR IRIS ROSENFELD TO BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM!! 1. Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough/sneeze; throw away the tissue. 2. Wash your hands … Continue reading →

Creating Space for Change

Life is constantly changing. A reality which can be difficult for people with ADHD who often struggle with making changes, especially when they are unexpected. In order to make change more successful it is not enough to know what we … Continue reading →

Nobody Likes A Tattletale – Teaching the Difference Between Tattling and Reporting

1. Explain that when tattling, students are trying to get someone into trouble, but when reporting, they are trying to get someone out of trouble. Try role-playing different scenarios to help students distinguish between the two ideas. 2. If you … Continue reading →

Five Successful Tips to Improving Your Child’s Behavior

As parents of an ADHD child, you have probably felt frustration with your child’s impulsivity, inattention and restlessness. Here are five tips that can help and teach your child to be more in control of their behavior and still maintain … Continue reading →

By Laurie Dupar in Articles, Children, Education, Family, Kids and Family, Parenting, Personal Safety, Self Esteem | No Comments » Tags: ADHD | dealing with ADHD child | discipline | parenting

Don’t Take Away The Halloween Candy

You may be thinking I’ve lost my mind, that I’m encouraging you to eat bags full of Halloween candy and allow your children to eat the sugar and processed chemicals in candy.No, that’s not what I’m suggesting. But, I got … Continue reading →

By Jodi Krizer Graber in Articles, Current Events, Food/Nutrition, Parenting | No Comments » Tags: candy | halloween | sugar

Who Should Talk to the Coach?

If you’re a family with kids playing sports, undoubtedly there’s been a time when your child has sat on the bench. The scenario is all too familiar. There are many games when the child sits out the game and never … Continue reading →

By Suzy Beamer Bohnert in Articles, Family, Kids and Family, Parenting | No Comments » Tags: benched | sports coach

11 Ways to Teach Kids to Recognize and Label Their Emotions

1. Use picture books as a tool for exploring emotions – Choose books that illustrate the facial expressions of the characters in the story. For older students, choose picture books with themes appropriate to young, as well as adult, readers. … Continue reading →

By Susan Fitzell in Articles, Family, Kids and Family, Parenting, Relationships | No Comments » Tags: anger | body language | Emotion | empathy

Feng Shui for the Children in a Military Family

In the year of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, the loved ones of all victims are brought to mind, as well as the military and their families, for whom sacrifice is a way of … Continue reading →

What Sudoku Can Teach Us About Solving Problems

I love doing Sudoku puzzles—the ones where you need to put numbers in those little squares to get a result? You can find them at your local bookstore, in the newspaper, and now on your iPhone. I do them on … Continue reading →

Parenting

How to Help Your Grandchild with ADHD

What Are You Doing To Prevent Catching A Cold or Flu?

Creating Space for Change

Nobody Likes A Tattletale – Teaching the Difference Between Tattling and Reporting

Five Successful Tips to Improving Your Child’s Behavior

Don’t Take Away The Halloween Candy

Who Should Talk to the Coach?

11 Ways to Teach Kids to Recognize and Label Their Emotions

Feng Shui for the Children in a Military Family

What Sudoku Can Teach Us About Solving Problems

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