Enhancing Sleep with MelatoninADHD children have a lot of difficulty with sleep. This article describes a natural intervention you can use to help your child sleep better.
Teaching Children with Sensory Motor Integration DeficitsSensory motor integration deficits are fairly common in both children and adults. The following is a list of tips for teachers who have children with sensory processing disorders.
Does Your Child Have a Central Auditory Processing Disorder?A Central Audiory Processing disorder can severe limit your child's school performance and his ability to control his behavior at home.
Use of Neurofeedback in ADHDThe following is a letter about neurofeedback and its use in ADHD as a treatment modality.
Does Your Child Have Tactile Defensiveness?Does your child refuse to touch anything sticky, slimy, or dirty with his hands? Does washing or brushing your child's hair result in a major battle? Does your child hate to have his feet touched? It could be that your child has a sensory motor integration deficit known as tactile defensiveness or touch sensitivity.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder: What is NewOppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is a psychiatric behavior disorder that is characterized by aggressiveness and a tendency to purposefully bother and irritate others. This disorder interferes with normal functioning. In this article we discuss what is new in ODD treatment.
When Children Hit Their ParentsChild hit. Sometimes children even hit their parents. If this would happen to you would you know what to do?
Being a Good Role ModelBeing a role model is perhaps the most important part of parenting.
Conduct Disorder (CD)Conduct Disorder is the most serious of all disruptive behavior disorders in children and teens. If your child has this condition, you will learn here exactly what you can and need to do.
How to Criticize Your ChildWe have to understand how to correct our children in a constructive way. Giving criticism properly is essential.
Why Your Children Fight: How to Handle Sibling RivalryThere are many new issues facing families today. Sibling rivalry is not one of them. Sibling rivalry is normal. It also serves a very important function. Understanding how sibling rivalry benefits your children is the key to manageing it effectively.
Why Your Child is DefiantWhy are you having difficulty with your child's behavior? In this article we explore the factors that contribute to defiance in children and teens.
Why Other Children are Rejecting Your ChildChildren with poor social skills are at risk for delinquency, academic underachievement, and school drop-out. Even though the inattentiveness, impulsiveness, and restlessness frequently persist into adult life, these problems are of less importance as the child gets older. Rather, the main difficulty ADHD patients encounter as they reach maturity is their inability to interact appropriately with o
ADD ADHD and Essential Fatty AcidsThere has been a lot of talk in the world lately about the role of fatty acids in health. Just to clear the air a little bit, I want to discuss briefly what fatty acids are and how they function.
What to Do If Your Child Steals?A common problem that we as parents encounter is what to do when your child steals. There are a number of different reasons a child steals and a number of different ways to handle the problem.
ADHD Treatments help Reading DisordersThe results of this study suggest that a child's ADHD interferes with the child's normal ability to read. I say this because even children with no known reading disability were able to make significant gains in reading level just by receiving treatment for their ADHD. If this is true then it should not matter how you treat the ADHD, as long as you do something to treat it.
Teens and Their Bad FriendsYour teen is going to pick his friends. There is very little you can do at this age to influence his choices. However, if you approach the problem with wisdom, there are a number of ways you can indirectly influence your child and help him to stay out of trouble.
The Up Side to RitalinI don't think that stimulants are being pushed too hard, but I do think that they are not being used properly. The main advantage of stimulants, like Ritalin, is that they help control the child's symptoms so that other interventions will be more effective.
Therapy and ADHDWe view stimulant medication as the most effective treatment, but realize that it is not a complete solution. Since medication has its limitations, psychotherapy has been used in addition to medication.
7 Steps to Child ObedienceOur goal is not to force our children to obey us, but to get them to want to obey us. This willingness to obey will only come about if the parent's commands are based upon seven principles.
Seven Anger Control TechniquesAnger can destroy your relationships with just about everybody. Here are seven easy to use techniques that you can learn and teach to your child that will help you get anger out of your home.
Seeing Things from Your Child's PerspectiveOur children see the world differently than we do. Although you may have very important things going on in your life, you cannot expect your children to understand that. You always must consider how your children will see and understand what you say and do.
