If you find yourself asking “why is my child so easily distracted?” and wondering how you can help – you’re not alone. All parents at one time or another wonder about their child when you find them doing something totally different when you know that they know they’re supposed to be doing something else. It can be frustrating and a source of conflict when it happens frequently.

More often than not the culprit is sensory overload.

As children get older, especially when they reach adolescent and teen years, there is a need for relinquishing some control over the lives of our children. It’s hard! We are driven by the desire to protect them at all costs. However, that isn’t what children need or want from their parents at this stage in their lives, and decreases the older they get.

John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth and their Attachment Theory might not be something you’ve heard of but is a major developmental objective for children to develop with their caregivers, mainly their mothers since they typically act as the primary caregiver in many families. Being able to develop an attachment relationship with caregivers isn’t hard for children to do. However, creating a secure, healthy attachment relationship and reaping the benefits of such relationship is dependent on the parents, their parenting style, and availability of the parents. So, let’s break down attachment and how to provide your child with the care they need to insure a secure attachment.

I made a social media post about filling your own cup and it got me thinking about the importance of taking care of ourselves as parents as much as we do with our own kids. Later that afternoon, I coincidentally, stumbled upon the scientific reasoning behind why filling up your own cup is vitally important since we oftentimes succumb to the pressures parents face to be perfect parents while putting our needs second, if not totally unmet due to excessive levels of sacrifice parents subject themselves to.

November 13th is World Kindness Day, but we don’t really need or shouldn’t need a day to remind us to be kind to others as well as to ourselves. We often get asked, do you need to teach kids how to be kind, and if so, how do you? Although kindness is an abstract concept we have outlined three ways to teach this social concept to children.