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Coping With College Admission Anxiety

Navigating the college admission process can be an incredibly anxiety-inducing experience, especially in today's fast-paced and...

How to quickly calm anxiety

Do you or your child struggle with feelings of anxiety? It's hard to watch them suffer and pull in on themselves with worry. I know ..

How to Communicate When Your Kid is in College

It’s a big adjustment when your child leaves for college. You’re used to talking face to face each day and sleeping under the same roof....

How To Make This School Year better

Now that summer is over, the start of a new school year often means added anxiety and stress for the whole family. With COVID, it's worse...

Helping Teens Manage Their Anger

Let’s face it; the teen years can be challenging. Right now may be worse than usual since so many of our kids are home 24/7 with few outlets

Three Strategies For Parenting a Child With ADHD

Parenting a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD can be challenging. Depending on the child’s symptoms and type...

Six Ways to connect With Your Teen

Wow, teens offer their own brand of crazy! The eye rolling, the sarcasm, the moody silence and sudden anger can all take their toll, leaving

Back to School Tips For Homework Time

It's back to school time and, in some ways it can't come soon enough. But in others, with this pandemic, we have no idea what we are...

PODCAST: ADHD AND YOUR CHILD

I had a great conversation with Sanel Kelly on The Mummy Pod all about ADHD in children. What it is, what to look out for, and how to...

Simple Ways to Take Care of Yourself

Right now it is really hard to relax and it's even harder to get a moment alone. In fact, in normal, non-pandemic times mom's only...

How to Navigate The Tween to Teen Years

Tween years can be painful. Everything starts to change all at once. You have puberty setting in which shows up both physically and...

Six Secrets For Surviving Senior Year

It's Senior Year, back-to-school time. It's also without a doubt, a complex and multi-layered time. At the moment we don't know when...

Some Tips for Your College Freshman

College is a drastic, exciting and nerve-wracking change of life for freshman. As our kids get ready to go off on their own we want to...

How to Calm an Anxiety Attack

She’s trembling, she can’t breathe, and she’s hyperventilating; seemingly all at the same time. She panics, you panic; welcome to the...

Navigating The Summer Before College

It’s almost Summertime, and that usually means school is out, and graduations and summer internships or jobs are in. Unfortunately, we...