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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

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

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

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