Some of us look at life as full of possibility. We expect the best to happen, and generally see the positive. Other people believe that bad news is...

There are so many different ways to describe how it feels to be anxious. One I recently heard was particularly powerful: being anxious feels like y...

When your child comes home ranting they didn’t do well on a test, that the grade was terrible but it wasn’t their fault, that the teacher didn’t pr...

Time is of the essence. Time is running out. Time flies. Timing is everything.  As adults we are obsessed with time.  There’s never enough of it, w...

When we feel worried, we get nearsighted. We only see what is right in front of us. When we feel worried, that small screen of vision is filled wit...

When the worries hit, I struggle to move.  When the “what ifs” erupt, I can come up with endless iterations of the terrible and troublesome things ...

In my last post I talked about how to respond when children show up in a heightened state of emotion (also known as: losing it/freaking out/spirali...

We have all been there – your child walks in crying/frustrated/steam coming out of their ears/about to burst. You ask what’s going on and they star...

I love my DVR.  Not only does it collect all the shows I don’t have time to see (and allow me to watch them all at once forwarding through the com...

I have always thought that the state of my mind is like the state of my desk. There are times when the piles (on top of the other piles) are toppli...

So many of our responses are automatic. If we are driving and have to stop short, our arm flies out to protect whoever is in the passenger seat.  I...

Why do children love to play with slime, putty, fidget spinners and push pop bubble toys? Well, it’s super fun of course, but did you know there ar...