Help Your Preschooler Sleep Well Through the Night
When I think about sleep in preschoolers, there are several important topics that come to mind: increased independence, bedtime fears, parasomnias, and elimination of naps. The preschool years encompass ages 3-5, and this represents a...
What Are Fidget Spinners and Do They Actually Help with ADHD?
What Are Fidget Spinners? A fidget spinner is an anxiety reduction tool and a distractor. Fidget spinners are infesting the popular culture of schools across the nation, and it would seem these fidget devices have...
Help Your Toddler Sleep Well Through the Night
The funny thing about infants is that, just when you feel that you are steady on your feet in this parenting game, they move into a new developmental world of toddler-hood. Your sweet, easy to...
Help Your Infant Sleep Well Through the Night
When working to have your infant sleep well, you have to pay close attention to their sleep onset associations- these are the touch, scent, and sound conditions that are present when they fall asleep....
Moms: The Real-Life Superheroes | Happy Mother’s Day
There Are Many Reasons Why Moms Are Superheroes If you could have a superpower, what would it be? Strength! Speed! X-Ray vision! Well, ask a mother about superpowers, and the wish list might be slightly different......
I Caught My Teen Using Drugs: How Worried Should I Be?
I Caught My Teen Using Drugs... I’m sitting down with frantic parents who have just discovered their teen has smoked pot. These parents are also convinced their son has drunk alcohol, but they don’t know...
How to Help Someone With Anxiety: Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep
When Reassurance Becomes a Crutch In order to be supportive, we often feel that we should give empathy, encouragement, and reassurance to others. While empathy and encouragement are highly recommended, there are times when reassurance...
Tips From an Anxiety Specialist on Organizing Your Filing Cabinet
Out of all the things we have to organize in our lives, paperwork is one area that most people struggle with or just hate to deal with altogether. There are several factors that might...
5 Tips for Falling Asleep with Anxiety: Get a Better Night’s Sleep
How Does Anxiety Affect Sleep? When we worry, we become physiologically stimulated resulting in alertness and difficulty with sleep. Worry gives our brain a signal indicating there is a threat and our body instinctively prepares...
Are We REALLY Friends? The 3 Groups of Social Media Friendships
A recent inbox exchange with a Facebook friend got me thinking about what social media friends really mean and whether or not you can categorize virtual friends as you would the people in your...