My Child Won’t Listen!
Therapy Tips to Help Parents Be Heard Your child just won’t listen to you. You’re repeating yourself multiple times over as everything you say is going in one ear and out the other. You’re at a loss for next steps. We get it – it’s frustrating! Don’t worry, Decade2Connect is here to help. If you’re […]
Empowering your Child with Dyslexia
Parenting Tips for Supporting your Child in their Diagnosis For years, your child may have been struggling with reading, writing and keeping up in school. Spelling may be difficult for them, as you notice they easily confuse letters and words. With the conversation of neurodiversity growing in our society, access to answers is more and […]
Managing my Child’s Anger
5 Therapy Tips for Parents Anger is a natural emotion that everyone experiences, including teenagers and children. It can be particularly challenging for parents to witness their child’s anger and not know how to help them effectively manage it. However, by understanding the underlying causes of anger and employing appropriate strategies, parents can play a […]
Alcoholism in the Family:
Therapy Tips on Explaining Alcoholismto a Child Alcoholism is a devastating and destructive disease for any family. When a member of the family is dealing with alcoholism, the entire family suffers. The secrecy and deception surrounding alcoholism often breaks trust, perpetuates destructive behavior and can ultimately tear families apart. At Decade2Connect, our Family Therapy services […]
Therapy Tips: Supporting My Child’s Sexuality
Human beings have always had wide diversity in gender identity and sexuality. Today, questioning one’s gender identity and sexuality is becoming more open, more common and more accepted. It’s important for adolescents who may be questioning their identity to feel safe and accepted as they search for answers to their questions. Questions that go unasked, […]
Parenting Tips: What Makes a Good Friend?
> “I thought about something I taught my kids when they were in elementary school… I used to ask them to cup their hands and put them in front of me. And I said, ‘In your hand is your flame. It’s your soul. It’s your light. You need to surround yourself with friends who, when […]
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. […]
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 […]
Tips for Single Parenting
In parenting, you become a part of someone else’s life and story. The journey of raising a child becomes a lifelong one. Finding your own balance in this adventure can be a challenge, especially if you’re engaging in it as a single parent. It’s important to prioritize self-care and make time for your own needs, […]
How Do I Explain a Death in the Family?
It has been said that life is about Hello’s and Goodbye’s. While the hello’s in life can be full of expectation and excitement, the goodbye’s can bring emotions across a full range of emotions. Losing a person who is dear to you or your family is difficult. Explaining a death in the family to a […]
