Archive for February, 2008

Parenting Toddlers - Terrible Twos and Troublesome Threes!

Parenting Toddlers - Terrible Twos and Troublesome Threes!
Parenting toddlers can be very exhausting as well as enjoyable. If you are parenting toddlers, you should have stamina and lots of patience.
Your little bundle of joy could be very energetic at times and since he or she is still a bit of a baby, you may need [...]

Handling a Crisis With Kids

Handling a Crisis With Kids
By Lee Woodruff, author of In An Instant
“Tell the truth,” we always say to our kids when faced with their little transgressions, white lies or downright omissions of the facts. 
Yet when a bomb in
Iraq critically injured my husband, and my children needed some answers, I found myself in the difficult position [...]

Book Review: A Relentless Hope: Surviving the Storm of Teen Depression

A Relentless Hope: Surviving the Storm of Teen Depression
Author: Gary Nelson
Cover Design: James Tedrick
Paperback: 137 pages
Publisher: Cascade Books (May 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 155635309X
ISBN-13: 978-1556353093
Dr. Gary Nelson, a pastor and pastoral counselor, has counseled many youths and their families whom are battling depression and other related illnesses. Dr. Nelson has a great [...]

Mental Health in Children:Nutrition as a Common Sense Alternative to Medications and Labels

Mental Health in Children:Nutrition as a Common Sense Alternative to Medications and Labels
By Scott M. Shannon, MD

The American medical profession has rejected and avoided the science of nutrition for over a century. Most American physicians ignore well-proven nutritional interventions in spite of solid science, low cost, good safety and exploding patient demand. Our doctors dismiss [...]

A New Child Psychiatry: A Vision Of Hope

A NEW CHILD PSYCHIATRY: A VISION OF HOPE
By Scott M. Shannon, MD
Every day I hear these concerns from parents struggling to find effective help for their suffering child:
“Dr. Shannon, I have been given three different labels for my son and he still isn’t better.”
“Dr. Shannon, my daughter has been in therapy for two years and [...]