Parenting/Children

The Impact Of Emotionally Unavailable or Immature Parents On Their Children

Cynthia Yoo

Nov 23, 20236 min read

The Impact Of Emotionally Unavailable or Immature Parents On Their Children

This article explores narcissistic tendencies in parents and the impact on children. It also discusses what children can

How Brain Development Informs Skill Development

Cynthia Yoo

Aug 9, 20233 min read

How Brain Development Informs Skill Development

It can be helpful to think of the brain as made up of two different and equally important parts. The downstairs brain includes the...

Effective Strategies For Supporting Your Child To Regulate And Ask For Help

Cynthia Yoo

Apr 9, 202310 min read

Effective Strategies For Supporting Your Child To Regulate And Ask For Help

What we know is that children need help - especially children who struggle with social, emotional, and learning differences. So why is it...

Your Child Has A Neurodevelopmental Disorder - How To Process It & When To Tell Them

Cynthia Yoo

Apr 9, 20237 min read

Your Child Has A Neurodevelopmental Disorder - How To Process It & When To Tell Them

Parents are faced with many difficult decisions throughout the course of parenting. This is especially true for parents with children who...

Cynthia Yoo

Apr 6, 20235 min read

Types of Mental Health Support

There are different types of support available to people struggling with mental health challenges. The type of support you seek out will...

Why Children Lie and How Parents Can Best Respond To Them

Cynthia Yoo

Mar 27, 20233 min read

Why Children Lie and How Parents Can Best Respond To Them

What is a Lie? Put simply, it is when someone hides the truth and gives a false statement. Children tell lies (or non-truths) for a...

Attachment Trauma - How to Heal From Your Childhood to Parent Your Child with Unconditional Love

Cynthia Yoo

Feb 27, 20237 min read

Attachment Trauma - How to Heal From Your Childhood to Parent Your Child with Unconditional Love

Childhood is referred to as a "critical" or "sensitive" period of development. This is because the experiences that children are exposed...

Cynthia Yoo

Jan 5, 20233 min read

About Psychologists & How to Find One

What are Psychologists? Psychologists are regulated mental health professionals who specialize in mental health assessment, diagnosis,...

Cynthia Yoo

Dec 30, 20223 min read

What Anxiety Looks Like in Children

When children are in their optimal state - calm alertness - we say that they are within their "window of tolerance." Children are feeling...

Anxiety & ADHD - The Big Overlap and How To Tell the Difference

Cynthia Yoo

Dec 21, 202214 min read

Anxiety & ADHD - The Big Overlap and How To Tell the Difference

There is an excellent article explaining how anxiety and ADHD overlap in terms of symptoms. It explains how they can look the same and...

Effective Strategies to Support Your Child with Anxiety

Cynthia Yoo

Dec 18, 20226 min read

Effective Strategies to Support Your Child with Anxiety

Parents have a natural inclination to take care of, protect, and nurture their children. When you see your child overwhelmed with...

Effective Strategies to Support Your Child with Executive-Functioning Challenges

Cynthia Yoo

Dec 15, 20225 min read

Effective Strategies to Support Your Child with Executive-Functioning Challenges

Children who struggle with executive functioning have difficulty managing their emotions, resisting their impulses, and keeping necessary...

Effective Strategies to Support Your Child with Self-Regulation Challenges

Cynthia Yoo

Dec 12, 20228 min read

Effective Strategies to Support Your Child with Self-Regulation Challenges

When children consistently fail to meet our expectations, it is tempting to label them as oppositional, defiant, manipulative, and/or...

HOW to Seek Additional Support for Your Child

Cynthia Yoo

Nov 17, 20223 min read

HOW to Seek Additional Support for Your Child

Seeking a qualified professional Once you decide to seek additional support for your child, it’s important that you find someone who is...

WHEN to Seek Additional Support for Your Child

Cynthia Yoo

Nov 16, 20222 min read

WHEN to Seek Additional Support for Your Child

Children struggle when they are expected to do something that they don’t have the skills to efficiently master on their own. When the...

Cynthia Yoo

Nov 15, 20223 min read

What All Children Need

As parents, we all strive to do the best we can for our child. Despite our best intentions, our efforts may fall short if we don’t know...