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(Taken from “Framing Strategies to Shape Parent and Adolescent Understandings of Development” by Kendall-Taylor and Ginsburg, Pediatrics, September 2021, Volume 148, Number 3) Here are some tips for talking about the difficult, Read more

The title caught my eye a few weeks ago as I was scrolling through social media.  “Demystifying Disability”??  Yes, please!  Emily Ladau, a disability activist, writes about everything from ableism Read more

How do you find meaning after a loss? Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s 1969 book On Death and Dying identified five stages of grieving:  Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance (who remembers these from Read more

Looking for a great book that will make you not only want to be a better person and parent, but also give you some tools to getting there? “What Happened to You:  Conversations Read more

Did you know that girls can have ADHD too? According to the CDC (based on data collected from 2016-2018), 10.8% of the population have ever been diagnosed with ADHD- 14.6% of Read more

Book Review Time! I just finished another great book- “Out of my Mind” by Sharon Draper.  This book follows Melody as she learns about herself and how to ‘deal’ with middle Read more

I ran across two interesting abstracts for recently published articles! Student-Teacher Relationships and Adult Health: Jinho Kim (2021) found a strong positive relationship between good student-teacher relationships and adult health, even accounting Read more

Do I have ADD? No. Let’s start with a brief history of what we now call Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Hippocrates (460 to 375 BC) made at least one reference to a person who had Read more

ACEs are potentially traumatic events that occur during childhood.  They can include experiencing violence, abuse, neglect, growing up in a household with substance abuse or mental health issues, or having Read more

Great Book Alert! “Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus” by Dusti Bowling Middle school is hard. Middle school when you have some differences can be even harder! Aven and Read more

As I was reading through some of blurbs of articles written in the past few years, one in particular caught my attention: “Talk more to raise children’s skills.”  Working (and Read more