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
- Why Breathing Doesn’t Work (and what does)
- Keeping Socks On and Other Sensory Challenges
- One Stone: Extinguishing Negative Behaviors
- All that Glitters: Designing Effective Reward Systems
- Why Reassurance Doesn’t Work (and what does)
- Picturing Success: See It, Do It
- Lions and Tigers and Bees, Oh My
- Baby Talk
- Homework. Help!
- Growing Gratitude
- Food Fight
- Last Minute Prep for School
- Fears and False Alarms
- Enough With the Dinosaurs Already!
- Ending Time Out
- The H-word
- Busting Boredom
- Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Not
- Slow Time for Worries
- Summer Tips for Anxious Kids
- Tattling
- Zigger-Zagger
Resources from other Professionals
- 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