...to build motivation Ask your child to give the new skill, that they are going to learn, a suitable name. Children tend to be more excited about learning skills that they have named themselves. Fun or cool names also have …
Skills your child has already acquired Highlight the many new skills your child has already either acquired, improved, or mastered. For example "You’ve already learned so many things!" "You’re so good at…" "You’re a master of..." "You’ve become so much …
Discuss the benefits that flow from acquiring a skill To motivate a child to learn a new skill, they need to understand why learning it is important. Discuss the different benefits for them, for you and for others. When you …
Don’t talk about problems, discuss skills Start your conversations by talking about the skills and abilities they have already learned and mastered. If you can make a child proud of what they’ve already achieved, they’ll be a lot more open …
At an early age, children realise that touching or rubbing their genital area feels good. Some pick up the habit of doing this in public. Boys may touch their penises and girls may find different ways of rubbing themselves against …
Definition Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, means that the child suffers from excessive worries, which he or she often tries to overcome by doing what could be called superstitious rituals. For example, a child might worry that something dreadful will happen …
Background Bipolar mood disorder, earlier known as manic-depressive illness, was formerly a diagnosis given only to adults. The concept that children could also be given this diagnosis first appeared in Sweden in 1969, but did not become popular until an …
The term ‘neuropsychiatric disorder’ is used for any psychiatric problem whose cause is unknown but believed by many professionals to be the result of some kind of disturbance in brain functioning. Put simply, when “neuro” is attached to the words …
Diagnosis When children are disobedient, negative, and oppositional, trying the patientce of the adults, they may get the diagnosis oppositional defiant disorder also known as ODD. This is not an illness, or an independent disturbance, but a medical term describing …