Helping my Child to make Friends

Forming friendships are  a very important part of growing up.  Friendship or the lack there of, can really make of break a child’s experience of school and boost or damage her self esteem. I found as a parent, that I often wonder and worry about the amount and quality of my two daughters’ friendships. We [...]

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Oppositional Defiant Behavior in my Child

Most parents give a sigh of relief when their child turns 3 and they can relax, because this is the end of the terrible two’s.  We all recognize a two year old’s temper tantrum as a normal developmental milestone to learn how to deal with their environment.  Children become oppositional, angry, disobedient and defiant when [...]

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Childhood Depression

Although we do not often think that children could have depression, we are finding it becoming more prevalent. Children as young as 7 and 8 are committing suicide while we are standing on the side asking ourselves how could we have missed the tell tale signs…

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PARENTING

Sticky Parenting Issues like discipline, pocket money, tantrums, nutrition, health and even family holidays. A lot of attention is given to emotional problems ranging from depression to autism, tourette's ADHD and many more.

Parenting

DEVELOPMENT

How Our Children Grow from baby to toddler to tween and even teen. We discuss physical, social, language and emotional development of our children.

Development