by Marc Shulman | Feb 20, 2024 | Child Psychology
We all are still learning to manage our emotions. Even those of us in our 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond are learning new ways to keep ourselves calm, address frustration, and communicate more effectively with ourselves and each other. Children – including teenagers and...
by Atara Wertentheil | Jan 31, 2024 | Child Psychology
We so often see children for their incredible growth and resiliency, that we sometimes forget that inside of their little bodies is a mind that is trying its best to develop healthy coping tools, skills, and other mental health-related strengths. Those skills are...
by Atara Wertentheil | Jan 25, 2024 | Child Psychology
The “pre-teen” era is a time in a child’s life where they are developing rapidly emotionally, physically, and psychologically. It is also a sensitive time, where some of the mental health strengths and challenges they have now may continue as they develop into adults....
by Marc Shulman | Jan 23, 2024 | Child Psychology
Tics – which are seemingly involuntary behaviors – can be a source of concern for parents, often raising questions about their nature and implications. Tics are common in children, and while your child will often (although not always) outgrow tics, they are...
by Marc Shulman | Dec 13, 2023 | Child Psychology
Sometimes, we talk about children as though the little person they are now is not the person they will be. We expect our child to grow out of issues with maturity, with behavioral struggles, with sadness – we call them resilient, with the expectation that once they...
by Marc Shulman | Nov 30, 2023 | Child Psychology
In the last blog post, we talked about this idea of resilience in children and why children are seen as resilient. We encourage you to read that post to understand why resilience is seen as a skill that many children have, and why that term is used to describe them....