Helping Families Through Stress Free Kids and Indigo Dreams Series

Written by Andrea Coventry – Featured Arts & Entertainment Contributor Associated Content

Lori Lite is the creator of the Stress Free series for kids. I requested the books Sea Otter Cove and Bubble Riding to review on my children’s book reviewing blog. Both books teach children ways [...]

Healthy self-esteem is a child’s armor against the challenges of the world. Kids who feel good about themselves seem to have an easier time handling conflicts and resisting negative pressures. They tend to smile more readily and enjoy life. These kids are realistic and generally optimistic.
In contrast, kids with low self-esteem can find challenges to [...]

All children experience anxiety. Anxiety in children is expected and normal at specific times in development. For example, from approximately age 8 months through the preschool years, healthy youngsters may show intense distress (anxiety) at times of separation from their parents or other persons with whom they are close. Young children may have short-lived fears, [...]

I’m fat. I’m too skinny. I’d be happy if I were taller, shorter, had curly hair, straight hair, a smaller nose, bigger muscles, longer legs.
Do any of these statements sound familiar? Are you used to putting yourself down? If so, you’re not alone. As a teen, you’re going through a ton of changes in your [...]

by Margarita Tartakovsky
 
“Stress is part of every parent’s life. But the experience of stress for parents who have a child on the autism spectrum is more frequent and more enduring than that of many other parents, “says Sandra L. Harris, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus and founder of the
Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University, whose research [...]

Parents of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder experience disappointments, sadness, loneliness, exhaustion and tremendous amounts of stress. I felt all of this as I watched the words come out of my doctor’s mouth. I watched his lips move as I strained to hear him through the screaming alarms going off in my head. Tears [...]