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Episode 32 Bias & Bigotry Are Not Inborn - They Are Taught
We, as a society, are struggling. We have talked about civil rights since at least the Civil War. We quote the Declaration of Independence with Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, but we put limits on who...
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Episode 31 Modeling Love, Acceptance & Respect to Children During COVID 19
This pandemic has shown that our country is greatly divided. What should be a situation where children see adults model care and compassion for their neighbors, has shown that there are a group of people who don't...
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Episode 30 FASD and COVID 19
We are not just struggling with an infectious disease right now. We also also struggling with women, who due to mental health disorders, could very well be drinking alcohol much more often and may also be pregnant....
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Episode 29: Learning Disabilities: Helping the 3 R's
Approximately 10% of children will be diagnosed with a learning disability over their lifetime. Learning disorders are considered neurodevelopmental disorders, which means that they are part of the child's wiring at...
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Episode 28: Children, COVID19 & PTSD
There has been a great deal of talk about how this pandemic is affecting the mental health of those who already struggle with mental health disorders. But it is and will have effects on our children, who don't have...
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Episode 27 Celebrating Children With Down's Syndrome
Before the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act there was the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) from 1975 to 1990. This was enacted while I was in college, which is why I never really had...
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Episode 26: Helping Our Children When They Need To Be Close
These are scary times for all of us. We are unsure of our economic future and our physical and mental health due to the pandemic. As adults we are struggling to remain calm, to use logic to counter the fears that run...
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Episode 25 Behaviors, Tics, or Motor Movement Problems
Right about now many families are getting very tired of being in close quarters with their children. Many things are getting on the parents nerves, especially actions which their children are doing which feel like...
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Episode 24 Lions & Tigers & Bears - Fears and Phobias in Childen
Fears and phobias are very common in children due to the fact that their brain is managed by the limbic system and that they have had very few life experiences to help them cope with the novel or unknown.Learn about...
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Episode 23: Anxiety - The Bully In The Brain
Anxiety disorders are not a grown up disorder. They actually begin in childhood with 4-20% having a diagnosed disorder, depending on which disorders are being looked at. There is also an equal number who don't make it...
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Episode 22: When The Bully Is The Victim
Over my 30+ years of working with challenging children, I have experienced a number of situations where my "challenging child" was seen as the bully, when in reality it was the other child who set up the situation in...
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Episode 21: Managing High Energy/Activity Levels in Times of Social Distancing
Cabin fever comes quickly to children who are temperamentally high activity level or who have been diagnosed with ADHD. They have rapid increases in internal energy which must come out before they - and you -...
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