These blog entries discuss a variety of important parenting topics, including good parenting skills, child rearing practices for dyslexia, dealing with ADHD issues, and more. When children are struggling in school, the importance of parenting cannot be overstated.
Here’s a few of our top parenting blog posts:
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While meeting with parents to discuss the concerns they have regarding their children’s struggling, numerous theories and explanations are often offered as to why children do what they do. Typically, the theories are linked to medical explanations or what I […]
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Practically every week I hear an array of concerns regarding distractibility and inattentiveness. There’s always the question of, “Does my child have ADHD/ADD.” In the discussion with parents a lot of territory is covered and I do my best to […]
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My overall mission on www.shutdownlearner.com is to present to parents in down-to-earth, understandable terms, concepts that I think have become unnecessarily complicated. “Executive Functioning” is a term I hear parents use a great deal, but when I ask them what […]
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I don’t know how to describe it in more clinical or scientific terms, but there are a bunch of kids I’ve assessed recently who seem to me to lack, “oomph.” While “oomph” may be one of those words that are […]
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Every generation creates its own parenting style based on a variety of factors and variables shaping our view of what it means to be a parent. For some time, I’ve jokingly referred to modern dads as a part of “Fun […]