As a thirteen-year-old, I babysat for the little boy next door who started to exhibit some red flags for autism, and I witnessed his single mother embark on a journey to find help. An answer and a plan. Even then, I empathized with her. My career goal has since been to become an expert who...
Month: August 2017
5 Steps to Fight the Sunday Scaries
Are You Scared of Sundays? Find Relief for Sunday Scaries (and Anxiety in General) With These 5 Steps! Dear Sundays, I love/hate you. Yes, you are the supposed day of rest YET you are also a day of stress. Sundays have seemed to turn into the day for grocery shopping, washing laundry, folding laundry, washing...
Simple Ways to Help Your Child Sleep Better
Help Your Child Sleep Better As we head back into a school year, sleep starts to get more attention. Gone are the lazy mornings where sleep schedule is less relevant and back is the intense race to have everyone ready. Here are some simple ways to help sleep go well this year: 1. Get Them...
Helping Your Child with Bullying and Social Exclusion
What Parents Need to Know to Help Their Child Navigate Bullying and Social Exclusion It’s lunch time in a busy school cafeteria and while you see several empty seats at the table, when you start to put your things down you are quickly told all of the seats are taken. As you walk through the...
Failure to Launch and Young Men: The Mental Health Crisis
How Stress and Anxiety Has Contributed to a Generation of “Avoiders” and “Isolators” Young men are experiencing quarter-life crises at an alarming rate. Men are struggling to graduate college, step into the workforce, step into independent adulthood, and deal with adversity and setbacks in life. But what is behind this epidemic of failure to launch guys? Psych Bytes presents a...
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How to Teach Empathy to Kids
I love and enjoy what I do, I teach parents how to have difficult conversations with their children. Teaching them on how to keep the line of communication free and clear. However, in recent events I find myself having to teach parents to deal with racism or better yet how to respond to it. How...
Guidance for the New Kid and Their Parents
Back to School Guidance for the New Kid As schools around the US start a new year, many kids are going through the experience of being the new kid. Almost every person has been in this position, whether it is a new school due to relocation or simply due to advancing grades. I have been...
Normal Behavior… or a Sexual Addiction?
Sexual Content is Everywhere… With easy access to MA (mature) material on Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu, I have begun noticing myself not so easily phased by sexually explicit material that once elicited a cringe or embarrassment. After shows like House of Cards, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Veep, my sexual-content-threshold has risen. We become desensitized...
Parent’s Guide to Back to School Worries: Helping Your Anxious Child
The start of the new school year brings an expected degree of excitement and stress for all students. For the anxious child, however, back to school jitters can go into hyperdrive generating a worry whirlwind of “What if’s” that can overwhelm both children and parents. Well-intentioned parents often default to reassuring statements, such as “Don’t...
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FOMO: Top 5 Things to Watch Out for on Social Media
Check yourself before you wreck yourself on social media. Welcome to our five part series on the “Top 5 Things to Watch Out for on Social Media”! “I Have FOMO!” - Top Things to Watch out for on Social Media Technology impacts the way we think about, understand and interact with the world. Undoubtedly there...