Your Child’s Anxiety and You
We’ve all been anxious. Your heart starts racing, your palms sweat, and you have the sudden urge to run away. Feeling anxious is a natural reaction to new or frightening situations. But when does a […]
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5 Symptoms of Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
What Is Anxiety? We’ve all been anxious. Your heart starts racing, your palms sweat, and you have the sudden urge to run away. Feeling anxious is a natural reaction to new or frightening situations. But […]
What to Do When You Are Angry
We’ve all felt it. The racing heart, flushed face, rushing adrenaline, clenched fists—anger. Just like being sad or happy, rest assured that being angry is another common and natural emotion, but feeling angry too often […]
Family Activities that Are Fun and Relaxing
When it comes to devoting time to the family, free of distractions, it may seem impossible. The bigger the family, the more challenging it is to find open time to spend together with so many […]
The Importance of Playing During Child Therapy
Childhood is anything but a relaxing, carefree ride. While stuffed with laughs, smiles and potent memories, it can also be chock-full of stressful and often saddening events. While you may be able to cope with […]
4 Ways to Calm Your Child’s Temper Tantrums
You’re halfway through your grocery list when suddenly you see it happening. Balled fists, explosive screams and tear-filled eyes—your child is having a tantrum. This seemingly unhinged surge of emotion is pouring out of your […]
Start the New Year with Less Stress and More Mindfulness
Ringing in the New Year can mean ringing in some new resolutions, too. While you might instantly think of common resolutions related to improving your health—lose weight or exercise more—one habit that could lead to […]
3 Relaxation Techniques that Can Work for You
We live in a stressful world. Between the varied stressors that may inhabit your life—ailing family members, strenuous education, exhausting work environments, pressure-laden careers, children, health and diet—there’s a good chance you haven’t taken the […]
How to Have a Stress-free Day at School
Since you first entered the world of academia at a very young age, typically only 5 years old when you stepped foot into a kindergarten classroom, you’ve been exposed to the pressures of succeeding. Success […]
How You Can Help Your Child with Self-control
You might feel as if you are constantly reminding your child to stop doing something: stop yelling, stop hitting, stop whining, stop begging—the list could go on. Or perhaps you find yourself repeating the same […]