Helping a child with anxiety can be a difficult road to navigate. As parents, we often want to alleviate their anxiety so much that we accidentally exacerbate it. Here are 5 tips for helping your child manage and escape their anxiety, rather than avoiding it.   Model healthy anxiety management. Kids pay attention to how […]

Teens with depression can be successfully treated if they seek the right help. Teen depression doesn’t have to mean a lifetime of struggle, and it certainly doesn’t have to end in suicide. Wake up parents, be aware, notice the red flags and then seek to find the professional help that your teen needs and deserves. […]

By Savannah Winters, CSW Based on our parent night in January, I thought I’d recap what we discussed for those who could not attend. One of the big topics we covered was knowing the difference between normal teenage ‘down’ days and actual depression. Teenagers are especially susceptible to depressed emotions as they try to figure […]

Yay! Ya’ll had a baby! Congratulations mates! Sometimes despite the happiness that is supposed to come as a result of bringing that little bundle of joy into the world, it is followed with unexplainable sadness from the person who worked the hardest to get that baby here. As their partner you might be experiencing inadequacy […]

Parenting is hard. There is no manual, there is no perfect parent and most of the advice you receive conflicts with other advice given. Each and every child is different and therefor any manual or advice may not work for you or your child. And here we are writing a blog with more advice 🙂 […]