Media sexualization of children. A resource and practical advice for parents. Practical tips 1. Ask your children what they like about their idols. For example, if your daughter looks up to Miley Cyrus ask her what her favorite things about Miley are? If your daughter mentions something appearance-related, ask her what else she likes e.g. [...]

Helping Children and Teens with Depression or Anxiety Disorders is obviously a huge topic that I can’t cover in a blog post. However one of the things that parents can do (as a small but significant part of comprehensive treatment) is to have a behavior management plan for home. If your child is a stereotypical [...]

Here’s a basic explanation of emotion regulation development that I quite often give to clients. How people learn emotion regulation is that as children, at first, our parents regulate our emotions. For example, a child scrapes their knee, gets a fright and hurt, and their parent soothes them. When children get older they end up [...]