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The first step to managing defiant behavior in your child or teen is understanding what's happening in their brain. Once you understand the science behind what's happening, you can move forward in helping them to better cope with their feelings and manage their behavioral responses.

Defiant Behavior: What's Happening in the Brain?

Is your child into video games? You're probably thinking of a way to prevent your child or teen from from sitting in front of a screen all day. Use these tips to keep screen time low this summer.

Tips for a Fortnite-Free Summer Is your child into the extremely popular video game Fortnite? With the summer coming up, you're probably thinking of a way to prevent them from sitting in front of a screen all summer long. While this may seem impossible at first, there are a few tips you can use to help make this happen.

While all kids can experience anxiety as they grow due to the stress of school work, social situations, or other unexpected life events, children with learning and behavioral disorders often exhibit anxious behaviors more frequently than their typically developing peers. Regardless of the reason, parents can help calm an anxious child by planning ahead. Find below three crucial parent tips for calming an anxious child.

Tips for Calming an Anxious Child Kids with learning and behavioral disorders often exhibit anxious behaviors. These three parent tips will help you calm your anxious child.

Reading with your child is a good way to gauge abilities and make sure there aren’t any signs of reading issues, since learning disorders and reading are often linked. Check out these reading red flags for different age groups.

Reading Red Flags Reading is an excellent way to spend quality time with your child but the importance of reading goes beyond bonding.

Does your child struggle with a lack of flexibility and resist trying new things? These tips for encouraging and motivating a child who "just doesn't want to" may help.

Tips for When Your Child Just Doesn't Want To How can you get a child resistant to activities and new things to participate without a meltdown?

Watch and learn why a child may have a difficult time controlling emotions and reactions and get valuable tips to head off meltdowns before they reach the point of no return.

Managing Meltdowns: Tips for Keeping Calm We have helped over 30,000 children who struggle with social, behavioral and academic challenges like ADHD, learning disorders, dyslexia, ASD, sensory issues, and ODD.

These tips and tricks will help make snack time a healthy time, provide strategies to empower kids to make their own healthy summer snacks, and help parents to reign in that refrain of “I’m hungry!”

Summer Kitchen Pantry Restock: Healthy Snacks Your Kids Will Love! Summer is here! And with that comes more freedom in the schedule and changes in the routine. Kids love snacks; kids eat when they’re hungry and when they’re bored. Kids in the US may consume as much as one third of their daily calories during snack times - let’s discuss seven tips and tricks t...

During this time when many families have been home for weeks together, defiant behavior and meltdowns may occur much more than usual. This pattern is normal, but that doesn't mean you have to accept your child's bad behavior at home. There are a few things you can try to help him keep his emotions and behavior in check.

Why Some Children Only Act Out at Home So your child walks out the door in the morning, shoulders all that stress and hard work all day, then comes home and melts down. Sound familiar? A lot of parents notice that their kids seem to have the majority of their tantrums at home.

Encourage children to eat more vegetables with these outside-the-garden activities. 🥕

6 Ways to Have Fun with Veggies Outside the Garden Encourage children to eat more vegetables with these outside-the-garden activities! Eat More Vegetables Through Gardening!

As time at home extends into summer break, it’s important to continue to keep a schedule to avoid unnecessary anxiety for your easily overwhelmed child. The following tips will help families continue to stick to a consistent and predictable schedule at home.

Sticking to a Schedule for Summer Kids with ADHD & Learning Disorders often struggle when they don't know what comes next. These tips will help avoid unnecessary anxiety during summertime.