As I said before, the right to consent is a fundamental human right. Once you understand what consent really means, applying it to daily...

As I said before, the right to consent is a fundamental human right. Once you understand what consent really means, applying it to daily...

Let's break down the why's of bathtime struggles and what you can do to end the battles.

As I've said before, sensory needs are often the driving force behind a lot of children’s behavior issues, starting very early in life. ...

It's absolutely critical that sensory sensitivities be acknowledged and honored.

sensory needs are often the driving force behind a lot of children’s behavior issues, starting very early in life.

To understand sensory needs, we have to understand sensory processing functions and how they drive our behavior.

Unfortunately, some parents are reading this many years into a long-standing pattern of meltdowns.

No matter how fantastic you are at preventing meltdowns, they will happen sometimes.

Let’s look at meltdown triggers because this is where you have the most power to prevent meltdowns.

For all of our talk about neurodivergence-affirming therapy for autistic children, parents often find that techniques used by their child's

You can’t prevent something you don’t understand. So understanding the nature of meltdowns and their causes is essential to managing them.

Meltdowns are a common and deeply misunderstood human behavior.

Food is not a reward. Read it again. Food is not a reward.

I can't recall a single lecture or class on child-rearing in my entire medical education.

Parents almost uniformly believe that it is their job to find ways to get their kids to do things they don’t want to do. That is not our job

Masking is one of the most common and most misunderstood neurodivergent behaviors. And I think it’s best taught by example.

When a child is struggling, therapies are often the best way to resolve the barriers blocking them from success. But which therapy is the...

I get a lot of questions about social… stuff, for lack of a better word. The common thread? They’re being rude.

This is going to sound crazy. But building morning routines (or any routines, really) isn't that hard. The problem is that parents often...