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Are You Enabling or Empowering Your Child?
We all want our children to grow up to be responsible, successful members of society. Isn’t that what you want for your child? So, we “help” them at every turn so that they can make it to school on time, complete their homework perfectly, and get good grades. But are you really helping or are … Read more
Basic Week Routine to the Rescue!
There are two kinds of people – those that love routines and those that don’t. Which are you? If you don’t love routines, it may be because you feel they are too restrictive, too boring or just too hard. After all, who wants to do something 66 times before it becomes automatic? However, if you … Read more
Action Today = Better Learning Tomorrow
Calling all parents….do you want to help your child/teen complete their homework more efficiently, study more effectively for tests and ultimately improve their learning and their grades? Time is running out. We’re in term 3. The early Spring is often the most difficult time for students to stay motivated and to keep up with their … Read more
Use Your ADHD Super Powers and Get More Done!
January 1st is meant to encourage thoughts of possibilities but it can also be a reminder of the previous year’s disappointments. For 2024, let’s make a deal, there’s enough negativity in the world, let’s focus on the positive this year. Are you in? It’s time to embrace our neurodiversity and use our strengths to get things … Read more
Secrets to Helping Kids with ADHD
ADHD, is it a superpower or kryptonite at home or at school? The truth is, it is probably both depending on the situation. All students want to learn, they often feel a great deal of pressure to “learn” and be able to show that learning when it is called for. How can you help your … Read more
Are You on Santa’s Stressed List?
Stress. It’s a word we hear every day and I am sure it means different things to each of us (including our kids). The World Health Organization defines stress as, “a state of worry or mental tension caused by a difficult situation. It is a natural human response that prompts us to address challenges and … Read more
Four Productivity Hacks for an ADHD Brain
October is National ADHD Awareness Month and so in tribute, let’s bring some awareness to how ADHD can interfere in your life and what you can do about it. First of all, ADHD or its side effects, has nothing to do with intelligence. It has a neurobiological (read chemical) basis related to the neurotransmitter hormone … Read more
Hack Your Workspace – Up Your Game
Does your workspace help you focus and get things done or does it just add more challenge to your task? Since we can’t add more time to our day, we have to find ways to be more effective and/or productive with the time we do have. Wouldn’t you agree? We can start with making sure … Read more
Embracing Change – Are You Ready?
I have a love/hate relationship with August, how about you? On the one hand it signifies the ending of the summer (hate) and the transition to cooler weather (which I am welcoming after the hot, hazy, and humid, summer we have had in the northeast – love) but also that transition back to “normal”. Normal … Read more