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Empowering Academic Confidence: A Guide for Kids Struggling Academically

One of the most challenging things parents can deal with is their child struggling with school. Perhaps it is due to their executive functioning challenges…

6 Ways to Help Your Anxious Child Transition Back to School with Confidence

As much as summer has certainly gone by too quickly for most of us, school is coming up on us fast, and we definitely need to be ready for this transition!

4 Essential Back-to-School Parenting Tips

I know, it seems like summer just started, and here I am about to talk about how to help your family prepare effectively for the return to school. Life as a parent is just so relentless and definitely stressful.

10 Fun End-of-Summer-Activities for Families

As summer winds down, I wanted to share some ideas for embracing and enjoying the last days of summer fully. Particularly as the back-to-school season is so busy for families, I thought it would be nice to set some…

Part #3: Blog Series on Over-Functioning Parents: Managing the Emotional Impact

Welcome to our final blog in this series! In this blog series, we discussed what it means to be an over-functioning parent, the impact on your children, and how to work to correct…

Sooo You Are an Over-Functioning Parent. Now What???

Welcome back to our three-part blog series about over-functioning parents. Last week, we discussed what over-functioning is and how it impacts children.

Part #1: Am I an Over-Functioning Parent?

I’ve been thinking about the idea of “over-functioning” often recently as it is a huge topic in my office and many of the therapist and mom podcasts I listen to.

The Gift of Play

Parents of young children are probably so familiar with the advice that they should play with their kids. We call it quality time, special time, playtime, etc. Often it probably just feels like one more thing we need to do in…

5 Strategies to Support Your Anxious Child on Big Holidays

In preparation for the Fourth of July next week, I was thinking about the biggest challenges some families face on this day. While we have talked a lot in past blogs…

Lessons from a Water Park

As a mom and therapist, I have learned that there are lessons in almost anything we do. Interestingly, one of my latest “lessons” came while I took my son to a pool with a huge inflatable obstacle course.