Whether it is a child or adult, having anxiety or depression can effect the whole family. Recent research suggests that even children at age 2 and up may be experiencing depression. Depressed kids do not act like depressed adults. Sometimes they are tearful more...
I received a text the other day that went like this: “I looovvveee youuu:) whoever stops this will be unhappy for the first three months of 2011. Tell nine people you love them” This, to me, seems out of control. And a little frantic. It is an attempt at...
Just Pet the Dog is one of the strategies, or tools, I developed to help people worry less. I talk about this more in my upcoming book, Funk to Fabulous in Fourteen Days. It is a way of living in the moment, without thinking of several things at once that we should...
I’m not quite sure why the word “perfect” exists, unless it is to torture human beings. By definition, “perfect” can never occur. In gymnastics, competitors are happy with a 9 point something, as they already have learned, as children, that the 10 is not really...
Children can complain of being bored in school. There are several possible reasons or explanations. Parents frequently feel that their child is bored due to not being challenged with the academic material. They also may believe that behavioral problems result from...
