Ten Ways to Inspire Happiness in Your Child. According to the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), about 11 percent of adolescents have a depressive disorder by the age of 18.
The risk for depression rises as a child gets older. The World Health Organization even announced that major depressive disorder is the leading cause of disability among Americans aged 15 to 44. How would you be able to tell if your child’s changes in mood are transient or whether they are symptoms of an impending depression? Instead of having wishful thinking that your child would not get depression, why not be proactive in encouraging happiness in your child as you are taking care of him/her today? TACSEI. Skip to Main Content What do you want to do?
What do you want to explore? Communities to Visit... Helpful Links. TACSEI. TACSEI. Positive Behavior Support. Children With Learning Disabilities Don't Need More Opportunity to Fail. “We want to see what your child can really do,” the teachers tell us in the eighth-grade parent orientation meeting.
“Middle school is a safe time to let your child fail.” And yes, of course, I agree. Aidan is no longer in elementary school after all, and he is not far from high school. Better to fail and learn from it now rather than later. And yet, on many a night, I still sit with my sensitive, hard-working son who deeply wants to succeed, and help him with his homework when he asks. Regular bedtimes help kids’ behavior. Bedtimes Why young children may need regular bedtimes.
“Crossover Youth”: The Intersection of Child Welfare & Juvenile Justice. Crossover youth is more than the latest buzzword in the often jargon-filled lexicon of juvenile justice.
Instead, the term reflects a growing understanding of the dynamic between child abuse, neglect and delinquency. This population of young people has contact with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Addressing child welfare is challenging enough, let alone when joined with deeper problems of delinquency. Abused young people often carry scars of trauma and pain, which can inform delinquent behavior that leads to subsequent contact with the juvenile justice system.
Teaching Your Child Tolerance. The Future of Children - Blog. My graduate school curriculum, in clinical social work, consistently emphasized "self-awareness," or being conscious of one's feelings, beliefs, biases, and overall state of being.
What Kids Say About: Handling Stress. Embracing Children for Who They Are. Yvetta Fedorova Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate.
Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse. Perhaps no one knows this better than Jeanne and John Schwartz, parents of three children, the youngest of whom — Joseph — is completely different from the other two. Offered a bin of toys, their daughter, Elizabeth, picked out the Barbies and their son Sam the trucks.
The Parent ’Hood: Getting teens to make healthy choices - Refresh. Your son hit 13 and stopped eating anything healthy.
Can you control how he eats? Parent advice: Having spent four years of high school lunching on Fritos and Tab, I can assure you that, eventually, he’ll wise up. Child Behavior Problems - Tween Behavior Problems. Smoking, drinking, huffing, sexting: it's a scary world ahead.
Start now to build the bonds that will keep your kid on track. Last summer while we were visiting family, my then 12-year-old daughter, Anna, and her cousins went to a neighbor's BBQ to hang out with their friends under the watchful (or so we thought) eyes of the adults there. Less than an hour later, they were back at the house. What happened, we asked? "Some kids were sneaking beer and getting drunk, so we decided to leave," the girls said. Yes, we were relieved -- and grateful that our kids told us what happened. It also doesn't help calm a parent's fears when every stat about teen behavior is scarier than the last (like the ones from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that one in every four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease and more than half of all teens have engaged in oral sex).
"It's completely normal for kids to spread their wings and test their limits," adds Kenneth R. Plus: Research-based information for families. Developing Your Child's Self-Esteem. Teaching Your Child Charity. Naps May Aid Young Children's Learning. A preschooler’s nap may be an important tool for learning, a new study of 3- to 5-year-olds suggests.
Researchers tested 40 children in the morning by showing them a picture on a card, then flipping the card over and asking the child to remember its location on a grid. The children then continued their regular program. At around 2 p.m., half the children were encouraged to nap, while the other half were given activities to keep them awake. The researchers re-tested the children after nap time, and again the next morning. Fun kids' book apps that teach feel-good message. Book apps can be a parent's secret weapon against kids' meltdowns. They create a magical world where characters come alive to invite kids to join them on adventures.
Unlike game and puzzle apps, there is no inherent frustration in exploring them. Here is a list of three new ones to download to help smooth over the rough patches of raising a child. Since most children's app developers release their apps in iTunes first, and these are all new within the last two months, none is yet in the Android marketplace.
KidsHealth - the Web's most visited site about children's health. Latest News on Children's Issues. KIDS COUNT Data Center from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.