Sensitive Kids
Andrea Ramsay Speers
I’ve run into a few people in my practice lately who are what author Elaine Aron would describe as highly sensitive. These are people who share a list of common traits [...]
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Handling Pet Peeves
Andrea Ramsay Speers
What do you do when your usually charming and adorable kids display less than appealing habits? Perhaps they crack their knuckles, or leave the tv on after they’ve [...]
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What Order Are They?
Andrea Ramsay Speers
We never really know what goes on inside our children’s minds. We may make educated guesses, and then do the best we can with that information. Well, here’s another tool to [...]
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Has The Family Dinner Gone The Way of the Dodo?
Andrea Ramsay Speers
When I was a kid, we all had dinner together every night. But even in my own household now, despite my best efforts, we only manage to have dinner together a couple of times [...]
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Sticks and Stones
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Bullies have changed quite a bit since our childhood, haven’t they? In my case, the bullies were the ones who were socially inept, overtly aggressive kids. In today’s [...]
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Sulking as an Art Form
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Where do kids learn to sulk like they do?? I often see a fair bit of sulking in my office…but as a non-family-member, I can usually pull them out of it before too long. [...]
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Do Cell Phones Make Our Kids Safer?
Andrea Ramsay Speers
We live in a worried society. We worry about everything — real and imagined — and we go out of our way to protect ourselves against these dangers. But in [...]
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Weight Worries
Andrea Ramsay Speers
What do you do if you’re worried about your teen’s weight? Begin by recognizing that however unhappy you are about the weight, your teen is guaranteed to be even [...]
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The “More, More, More” Epidemic
Andrea Ramsay Speers
We live in an era of rampant consumerism. Raise your hand if you’ve ever caught yourself trying to keep up with the Jones’…or at the very least snuck an undercover look at [...]
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Taking Their Behaviour Personally
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally responsible for something your child has done. We have some laws in Ontario that make a parent legally responsible for [...]
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