Note: Lt. Col. Melissa Boyd is a clinical psychologist and published children’s book author. Change can be hard for everyone but especially for children who often do better with structure and ...

When life gets overwhelming, everyone develops ways to manage difficult feelings and stressful situations. These strategies often help us regain a sense of control, even if we aren’t fully aware of ...

Counseling with parents and adolescents, I am usually helping them manage one or more of the 4 C’s in the Curriculum of Family Life—Caring, Communication, Conflict, and Change. How do they express ...

I began working on this post two weeks ago after talking to two teachers in a neighboring district about changes that were happening in their building next fall. We joked that we may need to do a book ...

Raising a child is incredibly rewarding, but it can also be challenging, especially when it comes to understanding what they’re truly feeling. After all, children are constantly learning, growing and ...