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How I found lasting friendships in a support group
When I first met Joan five years ago, she and a few other women had already formed a support group for moms of challenging kids. She explained to me that they met monthly to offer each other encouragement during...
Posted by Elizabeth on February 11, 2010 6:05 AM
A Wild Ride in the News
Seattle P-I reporter Paul Nyhan wrote an excellent piece titled The Rise in childhood mental illness is perplexing. The article appeared in the Friday, March 7th edition of the paper and featured A Wild Ride and one of our...
Posted by Elizabeth on April 1, 2008 1:26 AM
A Reader's Viewpoint on Medication
From Catherine at A Week In the Life of a Redhead: My son struggled in grade school and to keep this short I was told over and over BY TEACHERS that he should be drugged for ADD (the daydreaming...
Posted by Elizabeth on January 15, 2008 5:05 AM
To Medicate or Not to Medicate
It is never easy to make the decision whether to medicate your child or not. Now there are 2 new parents' guides put out by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association that...
Posted by Elizabeth on January 9, 2008 5:10 AM
New Year-New Friends by Karen Alaniz
New Year-New Friends Before you have a chance to ask, “How was your day?” your child bombards you with a description of his new friend, barely slowing down to take a breath. “He just moved here.” He says. “We sit...
Posted by Elizabeth on October 5, 2007 6:09 AM
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