Summer Activities that Promote Good Mental Health in Kids

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• Difficult Behaviors and Anxiety: Tantrums and Meltdowns
  Anxiety in children can manifest itself in a variety of ways because it’s based on how each child encounters her own personal fears or stressful triggers. While some children may become extremely quiet and withdrawn, others may have tantrums or meltdowns when they encounter anxiety-provoking situations. Tantrums are abrupt, intense and often unpredictable episodes of […]
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• Nighttime Fears of Children and Adolescents: What to do?
  Nighttime fears are very common, with nearly two-thirds (64.2%) of children and adolescents reporting nighttime fears.  These types of fears are normal reactions to real or imagined threats at night, and have been cited in the medical, psychiatric and normative fear literature since the time of Hippocrates in 460-370BC.  Such nocturnal fears cover a broader […]
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• Your Child, Anxiety, School Refusal and the Desire to Curl in a Fetal Position
  If you are taking the time to read this post you are probably not having a minor problem with your child being anxious about school. There is a good chance you are having a 5-star wild-horses-can’t-drag-your-child-to-school problem. Anxiety is bad enough but when you throw in school you have an agonizing crisis. If your child is […]
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• Anxiety in School: How to detect it, and what you can do
  Anxiety in school can sometimes be relatively easy to detect. A child is nervous before taking a test or before meeting new people. But every child is different, and her anxiety can take on the look of something that looks like an upset stomach, outbursts or other disruptive behaviors, ADHD, or even sometimes a learning […]
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