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A great online resource can be found here: https://www.understood.org/en  

Try to avoid power struggles with food. Beyond a certain age, it is unwise to try to force your children to eat as you see fit. Instead, you plan the menu for dinner. Set an amount of time per meal, for example thirty minutes. After that, the meal ends, even if they did not eat […]

An article on how ADHD can be considered more as a mismatch of the wrong skills in the wrong environment, where they are liabilities . But place those skills in the right environment and they become assets http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/opinion/sunday/a-natural-fix-for-adhd.html?emc=eta1&_r=1&referrer=

A new study out of the UK found that Parents’ stress levels are 30 per cent higher as they wake and anticipate the morning rush to get the kids up and out the door. Levels of cortisol ( the stress hormone ) go on to peak at 8.15am as mothers and fathers head out of […]

A new study out of the Netherlands has found that teens who feel that their peers think well of them, no matter what they do, may have an easier time coping with setbacks: http://www.livescience.com/48578-unconditional-love-helps-kids.html