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Getting Beyond the IQ Score
More than IQ score When I do testing one of my least favorite questions that I inevitably get is, “So what’s his/her IQ?” In previous blogs, I have tried to illustrate how the IQ can hold a child...
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School Struggles
Janine, is a sweet 8-year-old child. She is charming, bubbly, spontaneous and fun to be around. Janine is also struggling at school and the gap is widening between where other children are in her...
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Kindergarten Mom: Help, My Child is Shutting Down
Anxiety over your child’s school-based problems can start very early. A mom recently contacted me after reading The Shut-Down Learner. “My son is drowning in school. Do you think he could be a...
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The “Curriculum Ship:” It Has to Get to the Other Side!!!
I met with a kid today who is going to be soon falling off the Curriculum Ship. This Ship leaves port every September with one apparent mission – to get to the other side. The captain will keep the...
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Is Your Child a Shut-Down Learner?
Matthew age 15, comes into my office with his mother. Right from the start it was clear that Matthew had not read Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends & Influence People.” Matt was clearly shut...
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“Go Up To Your Room and Start Your Work”
How many households in America each night hear the refrain, “Go up to your room and start your homework”? Recognizing that each household is set up differently, it is hard to make generalizations about...
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ADHD/ADD: Trouble With Boredom
When was the last time your kid came home and said, “Mom, guess what, I got a really cool worksheet today!!!” My guess is it has not happened to date. Frankly, the worksheets that I see (and I see...
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Is the Parent Badgering Factor Running Too High?
It’s December. We’re into the second quarter of the school year. The dance is in full swing. All across America each evening this dance is being played out in millions of homes. It’s the “Don’t You...
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Letting Parents Off the Hook (sort of)!
It’s a two way street for parents. When their kid is a dutiful citizen, smiling in circle time, raising his or her hand, getting the homework handed in on time, the parents swells with pride, thinking...
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10 Parenting Resolutions For The New Year
The more miles I have logged in working with children and their parents the less definitive I find myself. There are few absolutes when dealing with kids and the complexity of variables that are...
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Why Your Kids Are Tuning You Out
Modern parenting can make you nostalgic for the good old days. You know, the days when kids went outside to play and basically didn’t see their mother for a solid eight hours (except when she made...
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On Zombie Pigs, Aliens & ADHD Boys
There are competing agendas out there within the professional realms that I operate. On one hand there are the parents and the schools trying to get a segment of the population (ADHD boys) to get on...
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Listen Up Moms: Trust Your Judgment
Research in education and psychology. Over the last thirty years, research in education and psychology that is focused on struggling children produces one consistent truth—early identification and...
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“Help, My Child Is Drowning In Worksheets”
I recently met parents of a kindergarten child named Cameron who is showing all of the signs of early school struggling. As parents will often do, they brought in sample of the child’s work. They...
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Lost Opportunities In Every Day Interactions
Marnie, a five year-old came to my office accompanying her mother who wanted to talk to me about her older sister, Jocelyn. When I went out to greet the mom, Marnie was on some type of head set...
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Homework Shenanigans: Turning Down The Heat
It would be interesting if we could take a psychological temperature reading across the country while homework is being conducted. Typically from four in the afternoon to about 9 o’clock at night. My...
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Podcast: Fostering Self-Confidence In Kids
Listen Here: Dr. Frank Sileo is a NJ licensed psychologist and award winning author that will be discussing how to foster self confidence in children. His latest book is Don’t Put Yourself Down In...
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Podcast: Persuasive Push vs. Shameless Shove: A New Parenting Paradigm
Listen Here: Siah Fried is a health and nutrition professor at a local community college and author of two books, Tales from Swankville: The Town May Be Fictional But The Problem Is For Real and her...
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Podcast: How to Pay for College Without Going Broke
Listen Here: Reecy Aresty is a college admissions/financial aid advisor since 1979, and author of the critically acclaimed book, How To Pay For College Without Going Broke. For the past 36 years he...
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Summer Time- Civil Time?
Summer Time- Civil Time? Ever wonder why your kid is a bully OR how your kid is the one who is the target? Sorry to say, parents should look in the mirror. The first messages and lessons come from...
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