The term ‘selective mutism’ is used for children who speak normally when they’re at home but don’t want or dare to speak with anyone outside their family. In typical cases, a child is talkative at home but doesn’t say a …
Background Diagnosing children as suffering from depression is a relatively new practice, this diagnosis was not used before the turn of the millennium. Unhappy children were earlier considered to have Adjustment Disorder with Depressive Symptoms, where “Adjustment Disorder” means a …
The best way of preventing children from bullying each other is to help them develop skills that promote friendship, collaboration and caring for others. Two such skills – apologising and defending - are particularly relevant when bullying is occurring. Apologising …
In some cases, it is not sufficient to do something to try to stop the bullying from happening. In addition, you may also need to help the child to become more resilient, or less sensitive to the words and actions …
At some point in their development, most children become fascinated by fire. They want to light candles, strike matches and play with cigarette lighters. Around this time, some may begin to play secretly with fire on their own, even though …
All children sometimes break the rules by doing something wrong or forbidden. They may, for example, snatch something, lie, destroy property, bully another child, act violently, swear or spit at a teacher, etc. When children do such things adults often …
It’s not uncommon for parents or caregivers to believe that a child’s problems are caused by low self-esteem. In most cases, I suggest that the opposite is true: your child has low self-esteem because of a problem. If you regard …
Using the Kids’Skills steps promotes happiness in children not only by helping them overcome problems but also in many other ways, including: 1. Нope Happiness is hope. Kids’Skills makes children more hopeful by promoting their agency. It helps your child …
If a clear-cut problem is causing your child to be unhappy, obvious strategies are either to help them overcome it or help them learn how to cope with it. On those occasions when a specific problem does not exist, or …
If a child consumes too many fatty, high-calorie and low-nutrient food items such as pizza, hamburgers, chips, sugary drinks (soda) and sweets, it’s usual to imagine that the problem lies not with the child but with the child’s caretaker, who …