10 Tips To Help Your Child With Anger
All kids — like all humans — get angry. When we feel threatened, we move into fight, flight or freeze. Anger is the body’s “fight” response. But humans don’t only get angry in response to outside threats. When something happens today that reminds us of a past upset, we get angry to protect ourselves — […]
Toxic Stress in Childhood (infographic)
How to relieve the stress of caring for an ageing parent (video)
Phrases that harm and phrases that strengthen relationships (video)
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Fostering Inclusion – How Educators can Help Students Navigate Anti-Muslim Bias
Imagine being afraid to rummage in your backpack on a crowded bus, or worrying about how to explain your holidays to your classmates, or wondering if your friends are whispering about your head scarf — and then imagine trying to keep your focus on your schoolwork. These anxieties, and many more, are all too real […]
19 Ways To Keep Your Baby or Toddler Happy During Diaper Changes
MOST little ones go through stages of hating diaper changes. Unless you have the rare child who is uncomfortable in wet diapers, then he has no incentive to want a diaper change. Your son is old enough to want to be more in charge of his body and his time. He doesn’t want an adult […]
Body Image (infographic)
The Educational and Mental Health Needs of Syrian Refugee Children
The Syrian civil war, which began in March 2011, has subsequently displaced nearly 12 million people—more than 4 million of them beyond Syria’s borders. Children under the age of 18 represent about half of the Syrian refugee population, with approximately 40 percent under the age of 12. As the refugee crisis continues to unfold, this […]
How to raise a happy child while disciplining less (infographic)
What is PTSD? (infographic)
Why complaining may be dangerous to your health
Quit whining. The truth is nobody likes to hear it, and it’s bad for you. A half hour of complaining every day physically damages a person’s brain, according to research from Stanford University. Whether you’re the one griping or you’re the one listening, exposure to negativity peels back neurons in the hippocampus–the part of the […]
How Healthy Couples Deal with Their In-Laws
“[M]ost people struggle with in-law issues on some level,” said Meredith Hansen, Psy.D, a clinical psychologist who works with couples in Newport, Calif. For instance, you might feel like your in-laws don’t accept you or they’re overly critical of your spouse. Or they have an opinion on everything from where you live to how you […]