Helping Kids Cope with the Loss of a Loved One

Parenting, Wellness

Last week we posted about coping with the loss of a loved one. If you missed that post you can read it here. This week we’re talking about how to help kids cope with a loss because although this is often a harder task to take on for some adults, if you have children...

Helping Your Children Succeed In School

Education and learning, General, Parenting

In our daily lives it’s easy to get caught up in all the tasks that we have to do. It’s very easy to push our children’s schooling to the back of our minds because after all that is why they’re in school- to have their education taken care of. However, it’s important...

Talking to Your Kids about Drugs

Parenting

The worst thing a parent can do is ignore that something exists and unfortunately drugs are one of those things we don’t want our children to use but that does exist. Talking to your kids about drugs does several things. First, you’re acknowledging the elephant in the...

Helping your kids cope with divorce

General, Parenting

Although it is often easier for older kids to handle, divorce is never easy at any age. Nonetheless, there are ways to help your kids cope with the fact that mommy and daddy aren’t going to be together anymore. Tell the truth about it. Often times this is difficult...

How to help a child with depression

General, Parenting

Do you want to hear a saddening statistic? The third leading cause of death among young people ages 10-24 is suicide. Equally frightening is that more kids attempt suicide than those that actually succeed and each year more than 150,000 youths receive emergency...

The best way to discipline your child

Parenting

Working with children, one of the subjects we are frequently asked about here at Hammond Psychology & Associates, P.A. is discipline. Parents, counselors, teachers and everyone in between often disagree on this subject. Nonetheless, we thought we would offer up...