Counseling & Coaching
It’s often scary to be diagnosed with depression or experience depressive thoughts, but it can be especially frightening for teens. Fortunately, there are helpful resources readily available to teens on their smartphones. Resources include depression discussion guides, crisis text lines, and an app…
Research shows that there are a few keys to good parenting: encouragement, limit-setting, monitoring and supervision, problem-solving, and positive involvement. Encouragement is all about showing your child positive attention, so as to encourage good behavior….
You can set your child up for success by teaching them how to live a happy, healthy life and equipping them with beneficial tools. One parenting technique that can help you accomplish this mission is simply…
Positive parenting is a loving and gentle approach to parenting that helps to foster healthy relationships between parent and child. There are a handful of skills that parents can practice to accomplish positive parenting, of…
Researchers sort parents into four common parenting styles: authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved, and authoritative. Authoritarian parents are viewed as disciplinarians, as they make strict rules and offer no wiggle room. Permissive parents, on the other hand, create and enforce little to no rules; they…
Parenting is unlike any other job: it’s time-consuming, it’s tiring, and it’s hard work. Okay, that’s pretty much the job description for every job out there—but in parenting, there’s a whole lot more at stake….
Humans are innately social creatures—we rely on one another to survive and naturally seek companionship. Still, some of us are more social than others. One person may receive greater fulfillment from a night out with…
Some of my favorite memories from grade school wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for P.E. class: tackling Holiday-themed obstacle courses, learning how to play my soon-to-be favorite sport (soccer), and crab-crawling across the floor in a fit…
Dyslexia is a disorder characterized by a marked difficulty with reading despite otherwise normal intelligence. Individuals with dyslexia—who make up 10% of the world’s population—have problems with spelling, reading quickly, writing, or pronouncing words, as a result…
Children are characterized by their loving, playful, and innocent ways. They smile and laugh and play the days away—unaffected by the many evils and dangers of the world, all thanks to their oblivion and the tireless efforts…
Growing up, my brother and I were both very active and our parents very busy. I played soccer, basketball, tennis, and even danced and ice-skated for a while. Meanwhile, my brother also played soccer, basketball, tennis, and…
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