Child Behavior

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...

If you've read any of my posts by now, it's no secret I am a single mama to three littles...a single mama who also works full time as a third-grade teacher. So when the last day of school was upon...

  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...

I have a kindergartner, she is 6, and she is my eldest child. She is bright and creative. But, as I do not have another child older or the same age as her, nor many friends with children the...

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...

I watched proudly as my 3-year-old daughter pronounced the syllables in the word "banana" without any difficulty or hesitation. She used side-to-side movement to help her sound out its parts. "Ba"—step to the left; "na"—step to the right; "na"—step...

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,...

Being a new mom, I felt the need to start teaching my daughter from day one. I started taking my daughter to classes as young as two months. Once she got all of her immunizations, I felt okay taking...

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,...

We've now been quarantined in our house for a solid 2 months due to COVID-19. Save but for a few trips to Publix and Trader Joe's, we haven't left the house. Well, let me rephrase that...my kids haven't left...