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Sometimes, in order to avoid acting on my emotions or reactions, I find that it helps to separate them from myself. I even imagine an emotion as a separate ‘person,’ giving me bad advice. How I see that person depends on the feeling. Anger reminds me of the sidekick to the bad guy in teen […]

This animation clarifies what makes depression different than feeling sad: https://magazine.good.is/articles/depression-video-symptoms?utm_source=TSE&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=pd&utm_content=inf_10_81_2&tse_id=INF_6fc9bc50583e4b25a26bbb45188719f2  

This article discusses some dark unspoken experiences that some parents have after having kids: http://mom.me/blog/26774-10-darker-parenting-truths-every-person-should-know/  

Over the last few months, researchers from Pew have been looking at parents, teenagers and the Internet. They observed teens’ behavior online and how parents are monitoring that behavior: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/01/07/parents-teens-digital-monitoring/ http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/01/07/parents-teens-and-digital-monitoring/ http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/parents-monitoring-teenagers-online-and-mostly-getting-it-right/?_r=0  

This is a very useful blog post on the nutritional component of treatment for ADHD. Full disclosure, the article is written by my wife, who is a nutritionist and registered dietician specializing in Nutrition and ADHD: http://diannerishikof.com/things-you-wished-you-knew-about-adhd-treatment/