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5 Powerful Ways to Teach Growth Mindset to Children with Special Needs

By Shawna Wingert — 2022

Consider this – for children with ADHD, anxiety, learning differences, autism spectrum diagnoses, and other behavioral disorders, already innate negative thinking patterns have been reinforced by years and years of negative messages.

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Neurodiversity Helps Parents Understand the Atypical Ways Kids Think

Brain differences such as autism, ADHD, and dyslexia are not something to be cured, but something to be embraced as part of human diversity.

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Fatherly Content Team
2021
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Nature Plays Key Role in Kids’ Mental Health, Review of 300 Studies Confirms

A review of nearly 300 studies has found a strong connection between exposure to green spaces and mental health benefits in children.

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Joni Sweet
2021
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How Adults Can Support the Mental Health of Black Children

Psychologist Riana Elyse Anderson explains how families can communicate about race and cope with racial stress and trauma.

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Maryam Abdullah
2020
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Dr. Becky Doesn’t Think the Goal of Parenting Is to Make Your Kid Happy

Every generation, sometimes building on and sometimes rejecting what came before, develops its own ideas about parenting. For many millennials, the clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy, a.k.a. Dr. Becky, is the person whom they trust to deliver those ideas.

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David Marchese
2021
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By Mollycoddling Our Children, We’re Fueling Mental Illness In Teenagers

Of course we want to keep children safe. But exposure to normal stresses and strains is vital for their future wellbeing.

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Jonathan Haidt, Pamela Paresky
2019
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Schools of Thought: Can Mindfulness Lessons Boost Child Mental Health?

Children are under increasing pressure. Investing in their mental wellbeing could could help them now and in the future.

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Liz Lightfoot
2019
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Parents Magazine Discusses Important Topics on Pediatric Mental Health

Because developing brains are prone to erratic, even dramatic behavior, parents can struggle to find the line between "normal" and "concerning."

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The Cradle Staff
2019
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Structural Racism Is Taking a Toll on Children’s Mental Health

Racism and social inequality don’t just affect adults. Here's why they have a profound impact on the mental health of children of color.

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Kristen Rogers
2020
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The Importance of Child Mental Health and Happiness

“What can I do to positively affect the mental health of the children I encounter?”

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Kori D. Miller
2021
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The Top 13 Reasons Why Kids Have Mental Health Problems

In my more than two decades of treating children with mental health problems like ADHD, anxiety, childhood depression, oppositional defiant disorder, ASD, and many other conditions, I have found that making changes in the parenting environment can usually resolve the child’s problem.

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Marilyn Wedge
2021
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