Shooting drills are now part of most public schools. Similar to when, as children, we practiced tornado drills, these exercises have become routine. Some public school students have been participating in these drills since their grade school years. Often the drills are unannounced so students can practice how to handle a lockdown in case of a real…

Parents, are you living vicariously through your children? Do you want them to fulfill your unfilled ambitions? Maybe you feel like a  friend of mine who said, “I want to give my children the life I never had.” It’s a caring sentiment, but sometimes parents can take this idea too far. Sometimes, our desires to give our…

Are you looking at your nineteen-year-old and wondering when he will start “adulting?” He needs to wash his own sheets and go to bed before 11:00p.m.! And he definitely needs a full time job. You think, will he will ever leave home? A part of you likes seeing him at family dinners and another part is…

We all know the child who can’t sit still, is impulsive and easily distracted. And we repeatedly hear that the numbers of children diagnosed with ADHD continues to rise. As we think about why this is so, have we considered the role of sleep? Could it be that sleep problems look a lot like ADHD? Given how stressed,…

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