Yes, COVID has been quite stressful for most of our children and perhaps even traumatic for some of them. But that doesn’t mean that they need therapy. How do you know whether therapy is unnecessary at this time? Here’s a quick way to remember: Mild iFIND! i – intensity F – frequency I – interference […]
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I met with Leah for half an hour in early March, after having spoken to her mother at length. I wanted to get to know her a little, and to get a feel for the issues I’d be dealing with. At the beginning, when I asked her if she has friends, she told me she
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Bedtime Strategies: Create Rules – Each child should have a reasonable bedtime that is consistently adhered to… Sample bedtimes: 3-4 year olds: 6:30-7:00 5-6 year olds: 7:15-7:30 7-8 year olds: 7:45-8:15 9-12 year olds: 9:30 lights out Teenagers: 10:00-11:00 and create a contract that requires teenager to be responsible and get him or herself out of
I visited a friend several weeks ago, and her ten-year old Judy was double-dipping on some tomato dip on the table. Judy took a piece of bread, dipped it into the dip, chewed a piece off of that bread and dipped again. Mom got upset since the tomato dip was being shared by everyone sitting
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If you read the article on Immediate Re-practice, you might recall that Judy had a tendency to double-dip, yet warnings not to do it again didn’t seem to work. With mom’s instructions, Judy did an Immediate Re-practice and practiced right then and there how to stop herself from double-dipping via a one-time practice using self-control
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When your child is doing all kinds of red behaviors all day, it is sometimes difficult to find something nice to say. It is even more challenging when it seems that your child is purposely trying to get you angry. However, you need to recognize that the reason he is trying to get you angry
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“Leah” is a second grader in Bnos Sarah. Her family moved to America from Israel at the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year. The family is English speaking, so oral language is not an issue for Leah. Leah is academically gifted. Although she could not put ‘cvc’ words together when she arrived, she is already
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Miriam, a junior-high student, helped me figure out all the steps that would need to be taken to organize her desk. Here is what we came up with… What school materials are lurking inside your desk? Is it a variety of books, a loose leaf binder, folders, pencils, a half-eaten bag of potato chips, stale
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I’ve had the wonderful privilege and opportunity to observe many, many, children in their classrooms countless times. I’ve also noticed an oft-repeated pattern: The teacher complains that the student is very distractible. When the teacher tells the entire class to take out their math books, he doesn’t. When the teacher tells all students to turn
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If your child needs to learn how to have an organized knapsack, the following are some of the skills he may need to learn. Typically, the disorganized knapsack features the red behaviors below, and your child might need to learn their green counterparts. ORGANIZED every paper has a home homework in homework folder supplies in
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