What Is “Back-to-School Anxiety”? Kids and teens might simply have anxious personalities; they may experience intermittent anxiety, or they may even have an anxiety disorder. But back-to-school anxiety can be its very own issue: anxiety specifically about returning to school. This type of anxiety can occur in kids with no history of anxiety concerns. What …
Co-parenting over summer break can become a new kind of challenge. But with these eight tips, you can rock the two-house summer. Summer is fun when you’re hopping from the beach to the mall. But it’s not so exciting when you’re hopping from house to house and arguing about who gets the kids. While co-parenting …
Are your kids burning your candle at both ends? It happens. Managing your stress, anxiety, and burnout can make parenting fun again. Stress is a fun killer. It’s the alarm that wakes you up in the middle of a dream and the parent who says, “It’s time to go home.” Ironically, the experts at PsychCentral …
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Setting healthy boundaries in a dysfunctional family can be challenging, but your well-being (and family) will thank you. Every family, to some extent, has some level of dysfunction. Do you get a little too stressed about your kids’ grades? Do you and your parents still fight over the little things? It’s completely normal! Dysfunction is …
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Gardening is the perfect family activity—if only every kid were interested. To start your family on your gardening adventure, here are five simple and fun ways for kids to help in the garden this spring. There are dozens of benefits to gardening: fresh food, self-sufficiency, and physical exercise, to name a few. However, even greater …
Parents and kids both have big feelings, and when those feelings have nowhere to go, they often explode outward. If you’ve ever yelled at your child and thought, Now what?, then we have some tips for you. Dame Sue Bagshaw, MD, and Michael Hempseed, the authors of Calming Your Child, say that “part of good, …
Seasonal allergies can be a real sneeze. They come out of nowhere, and by the time you realize what’s happening, you’re up to your eyeballs in tissues. Luckily, we have six natural home remedies for seasonal allergies that you can grab at that first achoo! Is it the sniffles or hay fever? Covid-19 or pollen? …
“Anxiety is a jab in the jaw for your attention,” says world champion surfer Shaun Tomson and best-selling author of The Surfer and the Sage: A Guide to Survive & Ride Life’s Waves. “It gets your heart beating, your senses tingling, and your body ready for action.” Tomson knows something about anxiety and calm. He …
The new year is upon us and most of us want to make 2023 a better year than 2022. We want to grow, become better, be more successful. But setting goals can be intimidating, especially if we have failed to reach some goals in the past. Breaking goals down into manageable areas helps. One concept …
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If there are any silver linings to the pandemic, one might be that we have increased our use of consent-based social behavior. Before, if we accepted a social invitation, we might have asked questions like, “What can I bring?” or “Does anyone have food allergies?” Now we ask questions like: “Would you be more comfortable …
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