We, as a society, are struggling. We have talked about civil rights since at least the Civil War. We quote the Declaration of Independence with Life, ...
Episode 31 Modeling Love, Acceptance & Respect to Children During COVID 19
This pandemic has shown that our country is greatly divided. What should be a situation where children see adults model care and compassion for their ...
Episode 30 FASD and COVID 19
We are not just struggling with an infectious disease right now. We also also struggling with women, who due to mental health disorders, could very we...
Episode 29: Learning Disabilities: Helping the 3 R's
Approximately 10% of children will be diagnosed with a learning disability over their lifetime. Learning disorders are considered neurodevelopmental d...
Episode 28: Children, COVID19 & PTSD
There has been a great deal of talk about how this pandemic is affecting the mental health of those who already struggle with mental health disorders....
Episode 27 Celebrating Children With Down's Syndrome
Before the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act there was the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) from 1975 to 1990. This was enac...
Helping Our Children When They Need To Be Close
These are scary times for all of us. We are unsure of our economic future and our physical and mental health due to the pandemic. As adults we are str...
Episode 25 Behaviors, Tics, or Motor Movement Problems
Right about now many families are getting very tired of being in close quarters with their children. Many things are getting on the parents nerves, es...
Lions & Tigers & Bears - Fears and Phobias in Childen
Fears and phobias are very common in children due to the fact that their brain is managed by the limbic system and that they have had very few life ex...
Episode 23: Anxiety - The Bully In The Brain
Anxiety disorders are not a grown up disorder. They actually begin in childhood with 4-20% having a diagnosed disorder, depending on which disorders a...