From The Experts...

By Dr. Sue Cornbluth Many parents contact me to help them rebuild their family unit after a divorce occurs. The truth is that families should be contacting me while the divorce is occurring because that is when most of the “trauma” is taking place.  It is also the time when an intervention can take place. Divorce is extremely difficult for a child to understand and cope with. Many young children often report that their, “world is falli… [Read This Great Article Here!]

By: Victoria Marin With the new data just released indicating Autism is more prevalent than once thought, schools are being challenged to provide increased services for a growing number of children. Upon experiencing several concerns regarding my son’s education within the public school system, I was faced with making a difficult decision. Despite his IEP (Individualized Education Plan), his educational needs were not being met. Direct instruct… [Read This Great Article Here!]

By: Erica Kosal, Ph.D. People view things differently from one another. We know this instinctively, but we often discount children thinking differently, with something of significance to say. We think that which is an “adult” issue may be irrelevant to the child and vice-versa. Our job as a parent is to be mindful of how our child thinks and to work to ensure that our children understand how to make sense of their environment. It is also equa… [Read This Great Article Here!]

By: Erica Kosal, PhD “Honesty – it’s such a lonely word.” Billy Joel sang about it in 1979 and of course, these words still ring true today. My journey of considering honesty while raising my children started when my oldest child was only 3 years old. My husband had crashed from an illness that he had been fighting for over a year. Now he was in the hospital and fighting for his life. “Why don’t you just tell your son his dad is away … [Read This Great Article Here!]

By Sarah MacLaughlin, LSW Did you know that fear is a gift? It a connection to your intuition and it can save your life. Gavin DeBecker, in his national bestseller, The Gift of Fear, portrays true fear as an important message that should always be heeded. Biological, primitive, and extremely useful, fear is something that deserves our attention. It is sometimes necessary for survival, but—here the kicker—not usually. How fear happens in our b… [Read This Great Article Here!]

By: Laura Geis How confident are you about teaching math to your homeschooled child? Do you select a great curriculum, follow all of the instructions in the teacher’s guide, and hope for the best? What happens when it doesn’t work? What happens when you follow all of the instructions and your child still doesn’t “get” it? I had this problem when I was teaching my daughter multiplication facts, so I dug out my old Teaching Math to Elemen… [Read This Great Article Here!]