Mom's Love Good For Child's Brain

Mom's Love Good For Child's Brain

Encouraging Patients To Take Moments To Enjoy Life Helps Them Make Better Health Decisions

Encouraging Patients To Take Moments To Enjoy Life Helps Them Make Better Health Decisions

Autism Overdiagnosed? Possibly, Because Many Children Seem To "Outgrow" It

Autism Overdiagnosed? Possibly, Because Many Children Seem To "Outgrow" It

Why Some Children May ‘Grow Out’ of Autism

Why Some Children May ‘Grow Out’ of Autism

The Lure Of Gangs - Good Parenting May Protect

The Lure Of Gangs - Good Parenting May Protect

Acceptance

The root of what makes life bearable is acceptance of the way things are.  This does not mean giving up or giving in to the way things are.  It means accepting how things are and then visualizing--based on reality of how things are--how things could be and moving toward that.

Present Self versus Future Self

Anxiety and stress can be exacerbated by the percieved difference between who one is now and who one hopes to be.  Children suffer the same stress.  They have hopes and desires which are often completely outside of the child's control in terms of whether the child can even work toward accomplishing that future self.