Parenting Tips: Pop Culture
Fostering a Healthy Relationship between Pop Culture and Your Child Culture has always had a significant influence over our behavior and mental health. Today, we are awash in technology which can have everyone on a constant stream of information, social media and marketing. It can feel like we are being bombarded with pop culture; what […]
Therapeutic Tips to Support Your Child’s Stress
Children are facing intense pressures in school, extracurricular activities, and from their peers and family. It can feel like our culture encourages parents to sign their kids up for every club, every team and every advanced class, convincing us that this is the only way to success. Unfortunately, these rising pressures often result in rising […]
Healthy Eating Habits
As a parent, feeding your child is often not simply meeting their physical requirements, it can be an act of nurturance and love. When your child is experiencing distress, whether physical or emotional, doctors and therapists alike will advise you to ensure your child eats healthy. As helpful as this advice may seem, any parent […]
Therapy Tips: Parenting a Child with ADHD
Attention Deficit? If you are reading this blog, research tells us that on average the reader will stay engaged for 10-20 seconds, reading about 20 to 28% of the content before getting distracted and moving on. Fifteen years ago, our attention spans were about 12 seconds. Today, our attention spans have shrunk to 8.25 seconds. […]
Therapy Tips: Supporting Your Child through Your Divorce
As a parent, one of the hardest parts of getting a divorce is telling your children. It is a decision they may not understand and one that may change their day to day lives. While you want to provide security for your children, divorce changes the foundational family dynamic they’ve come to know. It might […]
Is it Time for my Kid to Have a Phone?
The question of children owning phones is a new reality for families. As we move into a technology based society, phones are becoming more necessary, and the age of children receiving them is dropping lower and lower; from teenagers to adolescents as well as kids younger than 10 are receiving phones. Deciding on the right […]
Therapy Tips: Balancing Extracurricular Activities
As a parent, signing your children up for as many activities as they can fit in their schedule has become expected in our society. Between their interests, your interests for them, and academic expectations, their time fills up quickly! Nevertheless, being involved in too many activities can lead to anxiety and stress, which is why […]
Parenting Tips: Asking about the School Day.
I’m sure you’ve heard this one one too many times. In your efforts to ask about your child’s day, the most common response is a one word answer; sometimes getting a single word out of them is a win! Yet, as a parent, every moment matters. From the 5 minute school drop off to the […]
Counseling for a Child Being Bullied
Your child’s been a bit more reserved coming home from school. When you ask how their day was, the replies are becoming shorter and shorter. They’re withdrawing from social situations, not hanging out with their friends like they used to. Maybe they don’t even want to go to school anymore, something they used to look […]
Therapeutic Ways to Support Your Child’s Anxiety
Having feelings of anxiety is part of life, beginning at birth with our first cry. As we grow, feelings of anxiety are experienced in the body as tightness of the chest, shortness of breath and the loss of control – all of these new sensations are heightened in children when they don’t know why it’s […]