A Wall Street Journal article reports that the CDC confirms that youth suicide rates have increased 56% in a decade. Statistics can be alarming but the horrific reality of a child’s suicide can overwhelm us with sadness and questions about why such a thing happened. The article goes on to say that the probable underlying […]
12 Tips for Raising Confident Kids
As we know from infancy till adulthood children grow and develop rapidly. Their brains are developing in structure and capacity in profound and complex ways. Parents strive to encourage their children to become capable to achieve their developmental tasks particularly at young ages. However, as they encounter the outside world they find that what they […]
The Danger of Losing the Child in Childhood
Erica Christakis is a former faculty member of the Yale Child Study Center and has authored a best-selling book, The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need from Grownups. She has written this book to preserve the experiences of true childhood for our children. In a world full of high expectations, technology and […]
