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10 Things Parents of Anxious Kids Should Know
As the parent of a mildly anxious child, I know firsthand how hard it can be to parent an anxious child. You want to fix it for them, but you can’t. You want to tell them not to worry, but those are...
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How to Help Your Negative Thinker
Some kids are super hard on themselves. For many years, I worked with a little girl who struggled to silence her inner critic. She constantly looked for approval and praise from her teachers, me or...
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How to Help Your Anxious Kid Avoid Avoidance Behaviors
Avoid avoidance? I know, sounds like I missed something there, but stay with me. In the past few weeks, my inbox has been overflowing with questions about helping anxious kids who have a tendency to...
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Raise Assertive Kids in 8 Easy Steps
In the past two days, two wonderful small moments occurred. The first happened during a chemistry lesson in my daughter’s classroom yesterday morning. When the teacher asked for volunteers to read the...
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10 Things Your Anxious Child Wants You to Know
I work with a lot of kids with anxiety. Not all of them meet the diagnostic criteria for an anxiety disorder (some do, some don’t), but they do have anxiety that is no longer manageable without help....
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How to Help Your Quiet Child Connect
Ask my son about his day at school and you will get a play-by-play of his two recess periods. You’ll find out what they played, who said something funny, who scored a goal (or a run or something else)...
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10 Strategies to Help Your Anxious Child in the Moment
Childhood anxiety is tricky business. There are a lot of misconceptions, and often times it either goes unchecked or becomes a blame game. Parents get blamed. Kids get blamed. Even teachers and...
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How to Deal With Explosive Temper Tantrums
Josh* was seven-years-old when his mom reached out to me. I will never forget the phone call. Two minutes into her description of her son’s temper tantrums that occurred frequently and seemed to last...
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Studies Show Harsh Discipline and Spanking Are All Harm and No Good – Try...
Breaking news from Science Daily: The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to act out, defy their parents, engage in aggressive and antisocial behaviors and have both mental health...
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How Heavy is Your Backpack? An Exercise in Empathy For School Age Kids
The end of the school year can be tough. As parents, we feel like we’re crawling to the finish line. We’re so close, but there’s still so much to be done before we close the books on another year. For...
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5 Ways to Help Girls Feel Self-Confident
Image credit: Pexels “I don’t get it. She’s smart. She’s kind. She’s athletic. She has a ton of friends… but she doesn’t see it.” A mom of an eleven-year-old girl made this statement, but I hear some...
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Dads, Your Tween Girls Need You
A nine-year-old girl sits in my office, spinning on my desk chair. She’s avoiding a question that hangs in the air, hoping to find a distraction. It wasn’t a particularly challenging question, but she...
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5 Phrases (And 1 Question) to Help Your Tween Daughter Through the Hard Stuff
I’ve worked with a lot of tween girls over the past 18 years. They end up in my office for various reasons (I specialize in anxiety, stress, self-esteem, and learning differences), but, more often...
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5 Ways to Take the Pressure Off so Joy Can Flow
Self-care is talked about so frequently that it almost feels cliché to even utter the words at this point. That’s a shame though, because self-care is vital to both our physical and emotional...
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4 Ways to Help Your Daughter Break the Silence About Bullying
“When your friends cut you out…it’s the worst. It’s like you’re totally alone. So when they let you back in, you take it, even if you know they’re not that nice and are really mean to other girls.”...
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To Help a Victim of Bullying, It Just Takes One
I’m alone at recess. I can’t find a friend. I’m alone in the classroom. They don’t want to be my partner. I’m alone at lunch. They don’t talk to me. I’m always alone. Time and time again,...
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5 Ways to Teach Your Kid to Work Through Anger
Use a “Feelings Thermometer” to help kids recognize when anger rises. Adapted from The Happy Kid Handbook All kids experience anger and frustration, but learning how to channel these highly charged...
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