Parenting can be wonderful. It can also be exhausting, exhilarating, maddening, baffling, and surprising. Feel free to dip into these pieces I’ve written for advice on everything from sensory challenges to effective reward systems. You can also follow me on Facebook for brief, up-to-date tips to help you handle the toughest – and most common – parenting challenges.
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Articles by Dr. Dawn
About Anxiety
- Little Kids, Big Worries: Five Steps to Set Your Anxious Child Free
- Is Your Child Hooked on Reassurance?
- Why Reassurance Doesn’t Work (and what does)
- New Thoughts on an Old Idea: Talking Back to Worry
- Lions and Tigers and Bees, Oh My
- Fears and False Alarms
- Keeping Socks On and Other Sensory Challenges
- Enough With the Dinosaurs Already!
- Just Breathe, and Get Your Child to Breathe, Too
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Not
- Picturing Success: See It, Do It
- Last Minute Prep for School
- Summer Tips for Anxious Kids
- Slow Time for Worries
About Behavior
- Stop Aiming for Obedience: It’s Cooperation You Want, Instead
- Zigger-Zagger
- Tattling
- The H-word
- All that Glitters: Designing Effective Reward Systems
- Baby Talk
- Little Kids, Big Wants: The Art of Setting Limits with Your Insatiable Child
- Enough With the Dinosaurs Already!
- Food Fight
- Homework. Help!
- Keeping Socks On and Other Sensory Challenges
- Ending Time Out
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Not
About Character Development
- Little Kids, Big Wants: The Art of Setting Limits with Your Insatiable Child
- Growing Gratitude
- The H-word
- Busting Boredom
- Tattling
- Zigger-Zagger
- Homework. Help!
- Picturing Success: See It, Do It
About Emotional Regulation
Resources from other Professionals
- SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) and books by founder Dr. Eli Lebowitz
- Good Inside podcast by the warm, practical and spot-on Dr. Becky Kennedy
- AT Parenting and anything by Natasha Daniels
- AHA Parenting and anything by Dr. Laura Markham
- The Breathing Book and all books, videos and audios on mindfulness by Dr. Christopher Willard
- Go Zen animated social-emotional learning tools
- Hey Sigmund articles, blog, books by Karen Young
- Miss Erin Doctor animated therapeutic videos for kids
- Shepherd – Best Books for Older Kids Who Worry Too Much and Best Books for Siblings Who Squabble