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Have you had one of those days when there just wasn’t a good time to put your toddler down for the blessed afternoon nap? Did his behavior and emotions look any different than they do after having a nap? Take a moment to think about how you feel and react when you are sleep-deprived. It [...]
Continue Reading →While splitting from a mate is rarely easy, it can be hugely difficult for couples that have children together. In this situation, it is most likely that you will still remain in one another’s life for a very long time in order to co-parent your children. For most couples, the stress and conflict of divorce [...]
Continue Reading →A couple of months ago, I wrote about a study that looked at moms and children with ADHD. Some readers responded with wanting more information on the role of dads in their child’s ADHD. Well, I found an article in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology that studied dads and looked at the [...]
Continue Reading →There are many things that shape who we are as parents and Raudino and colleagues say that childhood behavior is one of them. In their study of parents that had been followed in a longitudinal study since birth, they found that conduct problems (behaviors like aggression and defiance of authority) mattered a whole lot in [...]
Continue Reading →We know that there is a genetic component to ADHD. If Sally has ADHD, then she is more likely than her peers without ADHD to have a close relative with it, too. When it comes to mothers of children with ADHD, it is estimated that 17% have it themselves. And we also know that maternal [...]
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