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Category Archives: Parenting
Parent Tip – Helping your child make friends.
Research shows that parents play an important role in teaching their children how to make friends. The most popular kids are pro-social and are able to demonstrate caring, sharing, and helpful traits. They also know how to control their selfish [...]
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Prescription: Exercise
Dear Petrus Psychology, Is exercise important for people who have ADHD? Significant changes take place in the brain during physical activity. Afternoon sluggishness can often be treated with a quick jog around the neighborhood. During exercise, the brain’s dopamine and [...]
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Consequence vs. Punishment
Consequences are different from Punishments because consequences teach children to learn from their mistakes rather than making them suffer for their mistake. Consequences guide a child’s behavior and help children learn about the results of their behavior. When used correctly, [...]
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Parenting Part 1 – “Does how I parent really matter?”
The type of Parenting Style a parent uses can positively or negatively affect a child’s level of confidence, self-worth, sense of security, interaction with peers and authority figures, and sense of self. Research has shown that Parenting Style has been found [...]
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Executive Functioning
Executive function is a term used to describe the many tasks our brains perform that are necessary to think, act, and solve problems. Executive functioning includes tasks that help us learn new information, remember and retrieve information we’ve learned in [...]
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My Teen is Growing Up
Adolescence is considered to be one of the most important phases in the developmental theory and developmental progress. It is the time when a child emerges from the latency period, pre-pubescence, where they are trying to figure out who they [...]
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Special Needs Estate Planning
Parents of a child with mental illness must confront a myriad of challenges managing their child’s condition while planning for their child’s future well-being. Continue reading
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The Importance of Breakfast
Breakfast or “breaking the fast” is an extremely important meal. Many people choose to skip this meal for a variety of reasons including: it saves time, people incorrectly think it is a good way to lose weight, or the person is [...]
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Bullying
Studies show that between 15-25% of U.S. students are bullied with some frequency. Bullying can have long-lasting effects. Youth who are bullied experience real suffering that can interfere with their social and emotional development. Bullying can cause your child to [...]
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Strengthening Your Brain
When you ask most people about strengthening their brain many people believe what they are born with it what they have for the rest of their life. Until recently, a popular misconception was that neurons die through life and do [...]
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