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TRY TO MEDITATE | According to the American Psychological Association, there have been over 200 studies conducted on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy for reducing stress, anxiety and depression. However, managing anxiety is not one-size fits all. While Hussain noted that meditation may not be effective for everyone, for many, slipping away to consciously focus on yourself does have a proven positive impact on relaxing the body and mind. "Deep and mindful breathing is a classic tool used for anxiety. That combined with repetitive phrases or movements can be very effective in alleviating anxiety and depression," she added.

Living with Children: Grandparents fed up

November 10, 2020 at 2:38 p.m.

Q: We sent our daughter a recent article of yours hoping it might cause her to rethink her approach to raising our grandson. It was not well-received and she is...

Mental health professionals are likely to explain misanthropic kids as suffering biochemical imbalances.

Living with Children: The cure for ‘moodiness’

October 28, 2020 at 12:03 p.m.

Living with an emotionally dramatic child is no fun. They throw wet blankets over nearly every family gathering or outing. Little is right in their lives, and attempts to cheer...

BE SUPPORTIVE BUT FIRM | According to a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7362323/">recent piece</a> published in the journal Behavior Analysis in Practice, one of the most important things parents can do to help with separation anxiety is not give in to arguments or tantrums. You can be loving and sympathetic by acknowledging they're upset, but you should not return to touch, pick up, or hug and kiss your child, delay your departure, hesitate or bargain with them to return sooner. These all reinforce unwanted behavior problems and anxiety responses.

Living with Children: The ‘hump’ of toddlerhood

October 7, 2020 at 1:01 p.m.

Q: In your column of last week, you referred to the "hump of toddlerhood." Can you please explain further? A: In using the word "hump," I'm equating chronological toddlerhood –...

Nearly all toddlers are haunted with episodes of kick-out-the-jams insanity, says John Rosemond.

Living with children: Parents face same problems all over the world

July 22, 2020 at 3:25 p.m.

One of my books, "Making the 'Terrible' Twos Terrific!", has recently become a best-seller in China, of all places. Seriously! What sorts of problems are Chinese parents having with their...

VERY TAX-FRIENDLY STATES | To count as a very tax-friendly state for retirees, states must either have no state income tax, no tax on retirement income or a significant tax deduction on retirement income. These seven qualifying states have friendly sales, property, estate and inheritance tax rates too.

Living with Children: Are parents responsible for how kids turn out?

July 8, 2020 at 9:23 a.m.

Are parents responsible for the sort of people their children become? That's this week's question, and the answer is no, albeit equivocally. Several parents have recently written me bemoaning the...

Children peek at a birthday cake during a family gathering in honor of missing Griffith woman Dushawnda Glover's birthday on Tuesday, May 26, 2020.

Living with Children: Appreciate the odd among us

May 26, 2020 at 4:24 p.m.

I have come up with a new psychological diagnosis, one that I won't, however, be submitting for approval to the powers that be: simply, odd. My "odd" is to be...

Starting in 1960s, American mental health professionals began to argue that punishing children would leave them with long-lasting pschological damage pulled.

Living with Children: Commonsense vs. nonsense

January 8, 2020 at 10:27 a.m.

This is the last (for a while, anyway) of three columns in which I take on the absurd notion that punishing children for bad behavior is bad parenting. (The previous...

Don't let The Portal lure you into micromanaging your child.

Living with Children: The ‘portal’ lures parents into micromanaging school work

October 30, 2019 at 12:04 p.m.

The portal. It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel, the gateway to an alternative universe that lures, then traps the unwary in its nefarious web of illusion,...

Today's parents are "parenting," which is all about being liked by your child, says John Rosemond.

Living with Children: Child raising vs parenting

May 7, 2019 at 9:46 p.m.

There is child raising and there is "parenting." America replaced the former with the latter in the 1970s and it's been downhill ever since. My mother - a single parent...

HIS SAY

August 10, 2021 at 6:06 a.m.

The most recent sign that we are living in the Age of Anti-Enlightenment: Sharon Pratt Dixon, the mayor of Washington, wants to restore corporal punishment in the capital`s schools, where...

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