by Dr. Selz | May 30, 2025 | Modern Childhood, Parenting Misc
In many households there are temperamentally rigid and inflexible children who cause a great deal of distress. With their limited coping skills, such children become quite volatile and reactive to frustration. Jeff and Rose are the bleary eyed parents of three...
by Dr. Selz | Apr 11, 2025 | Modern Childhood
(***Had thought about answering some emails regaring the last few posts, but life got in the way. So I thought I would pull one out from the archives.)...
by Dr. Selz | Apr 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
When a child is school struggling, 99.9% of the time the parents get it. They know there’s something up. They are looking for validation. This is where it gets murky. When the parents raise the question of dyslexia with the school, typically they are told that the...
by Dr. Selz | Mar 27, 2025 | ADHD/ADD, Modern Childhood
“Children surrounded by fast-paced visual stimuli at the expense of face-to-face adult modeling, interactive language, reflective problem- solving, creative play, and sustained attention may be expected to arrive at school unprepared for academic learning—and...
by Dr. Selz | Mar 21, 2025 | ADHD/ADD, Assessment
“‘I think the current diagnosis of ADHD is a mess and has been wildly overdone. It blames a variety of symptoms entirely on the child’s brain, and ignores the child’s environment and the interaction with it.” (Dr. William B. Carey, pediatrician, researcher,...
