Child Behavior

It’s Food Allergy Awareness Week, and while I love the opportunity it gives me to spread awareness and help educate others, it’s a time when I always find myself reflecting. As a mom managing multiple food allergies under one...

As a mom of a rising kindergartener, my time has recently been consumed with well-child visits, immunizations, and unending searches for important documents like birth certificates and social security numbers. Getting my daughter prepared for kindergarten registration is both...

I came to know about Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) through my younger cousin. He is a private person, so in this post, I'll refer to him by his first initial, E. To my knowledge, he does not have an...

January, how I love January. There's something about the new year that just motivates me to live healthier, read more, become more generous or patient, or finish a project I started months ago. It makes me set goals. Goals...

Let's Talk Teens and Turkey!  Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and at my house, that means my daughter will be home from college, and my son will have a week off from high school. They'll need to crash,...

“Surprise, you’re having TWINS!” That is one memory seared into my brain for good. You see, we already had two daughters (ages 3 and 4) and weren’t exactly planning for baby number three. So when three turned into four…well,...

October 20th is National Youth Confidence Day. You probably haven’t heard much about this special day but it is a day we should all add to our mom radar. National Youth Confidence Day is designed to celebrate the energy,...

A year ago, in August, my youngest son Jaxon was diagnosed with nonverbal autism. For my husband and me, this was not news. It was confirmation of what we already knew. Although we knew this, the reality of the...

Simple activities for helping your child meet their speech and language milestones As a mother, I wanted my baby to be healthy and meet all of his developmental milestones. As Speech Language Pathologist, I not only wanted him to meet all of...

  In my 20’s a doctor told me that I’d probably never conceive a child. An unplanned pregnancy at age 37 was the greatest surprise I’ve ever been given. Giving birth to a beautiful baby girl…well, that was just icing...