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Childhood Issues

Whether you’re dealing with behavioral issues, common childhood problems, or serious attachment issues, it’s important to provide the stability, structure, and care all kids need to feel loved, self-confident, and safe.

Healthy Food for Kids

Easy tips to help your children and teens eat healthier

Childhood Obesity and Weight Problems

Helping your child reach and maintain a healthy weight

Childhood Insomnia and Sleep Problems

Tips for helping your child fall and stay asleep

Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children

Parenting strategies to help you build empathy and emotional awareness

Children and Divorce

Helping children cope with separation and divorce

Blended Family and Step-Parenting Tips

How to bond with your stepchildren and handle stepfamily issues

Deal with a Bully and Overcome Bullying

How to protect yourself or your child

Cyberbullying

Protect yourself or your child online

Child Abuse and Neglect

How to spot the signs and make a difference

Attachment Disorders in Children

Causes, symptoms, and treatment

Separation Anxiety and Separation Anxiety Disorder

What you can do to ease your child's separation anxiety

Helping Children Cope with Traumatic Events

Tips for helping a child or teen recover from trauma

VIDEO: Trauma, Brain & Relationship: Helping Children Heal

Trauma's effects on the development of the mind body system

Anxiety in Children and Teens

A parent’s guide to managing symptoms

PANS and PANDAS: Acute-Onset OCD in Children

How to help your child