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Autism can be challenging for parents and children alike. In some cases there may be communication barriers, atypical behavior and other roadblocks that can make daily life more complicated. Some symptoms may make even mundane tasks like going to the store or playing a boardgame potentially more involved. Everyone is different, so what works for one family might not be as effective for others, but...
January 3, 2020
Trick or treat! This Halloween, when those cute little witches, ghosts, superheroes and princesses come knocking, give them a real treat. Forget the candy — instead, hand out a treat they can enjoy without harm to their health. Think of what you’re giving those sweet little faces when you hand out sugar-laden sweets of every kind. Candy is the tradition, but childhood diets lay the foundation for health...
October 31, 2019
There’s an intense debate swirling around us as to the state of teenage-dom in today’s world. Is bullying an old thing that’s getting new attention? Or is it quantitatively or qualitatively worse? Are kids less resilient than ever before, or are the pressures just that much greater? Are they meaner to one another? Or is cruelty just more visible than it was before? - There could be some truth to all...
February 18, 2019
The other night my daughter called me from her dad's house. The first thing she asked was if she had any appointments this week. I said, "Yes, you have a doctor's appointment after school on Monday." She immediately got mad and told me how much homework she was going to have that day and how she didn't have time for any appointments. "Why do you always sign me up for things after school on Monday?!?"...
November 26, 2018
A story by Riley Rose, age 6... Once upon a time there was a family and they all had phones even the baby. But one day the mailman plopped a chest of gold and you only have it for one day. But the parents were too busy to put things in their wallet. The next day the mailman took the chest. The next day they packed for vacation but they forgot the phone. They went on vacation and had shakes and chocolates...
August 16, 2018
When we hear the word “autism,” parents are terrified and hope the doctor is wrong. Here are the 7 things I wish someone had told me when Ryan was first diagnosed with autism: - 1. There is a lot of information out there and no one agrees on anything. Don’t allow this frightening diagnosis to overwhelm you. You know your kid best. You must learn to trust your gut. Stop looking for someone to do this...
August 16, 2018
What do parents fight about more than sex or money? Ask any parent: It's how to raise their children. The dilemma is that while both parents love their children, while they may even have agreed beforehand how to raise their children, while they may have read every parenting book ever published since 1950, nobody really knows what kind of parent they're going to be until they are actually confronted...
July 24, 2018
When I hear the term "unconditional love," I think of the incredible moment my son was born. Yet a parent's love can be virtually destroyed. Some of the most difficult moments I've witnessed as a therapist, when there wasn't an actual death, is when a parent is agonizing over a grown child whose destructiveness and emotional manipulation are squeezing out the last drops of unconditional love that parent...
May 5, 2018
Olivia calls her dad a s**t-head every chance she gets, but what she really wants to say to him is this: “Every time you talk to me you’re trying to make some point and it gets old. Plus, you think you’re being funny but it hurts my feelings and that’s why I don’t talk to you, not because I’m a “mopey teenager.” - Let’s unpack this conflict, and see how a father and daughter who are genuinely trying...
March 28, 2018
Remember the character Helen Parr (“-Elastigirl-”) in the animated Disney Pixar movie, -The Incredibles-? -The moms are always pulled in a million different directions, so I made her - stretch like taffy. Brad Bird, writer and director. That is one of the most perfect and succinct descriptions of motherhood I’ve ever heard. And even on the days we don’t think we can stretch one more inch, our young...
January 10, 2018
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