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
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Cynthia Yoo
- Aug 9
- 3 min
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...
Cynthia Yoo
- Apr 9
- 10 min
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...
Cynthia Yoo
- Apr 9
- 7 min
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
- 5 min
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...
Cynthia Yoo
- Mar 27
- 3 min
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...
Cynthia Yoo
- Feb 27
- 7 min
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
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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...
Cynthia Yoo
- Dec 21, 2022
- 14 min
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...
Cynthia Yoo
- Dec 18, 2022
- 6 min
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...
Cynthia Yoo
- Dec 15, 2022
- 5 min
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...
Cynthia Yoo
- Dec 12, 2022
- 8 min
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...
Cynthia Yoo
- Nov 17, 2022
- 3 min
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...
Cynthia Yoo
- Nov 16, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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