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Lower Kid’s Anxiety with Low Clutter

January 28, 2009

When we moved last month and I cleaned out my daughter’s room, I was struck with the thought that this looked a lot like my mother’s house. My mother was a schizophrenic. The strangeness of the way my daughter disassembles thing, stuffs shoes into drawers, a random chatter of constant mess and disorganization disturbed me. [...]

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Sydney’s ADD tips

January 27, 2009

OK. It’s official. Me and my daughter are ADD! Wow, a lifetime of me doing yoga and meditation to get my mind focused! It all makes sense. I can remember very well in second grade, just living in a dream world of fantasy. Teacher’s thought there was something wrong with me and put me in [...]

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Calming Children’s Anxiety with Stories and Yoga

January 14, 2009

When I talk with my daughter, a lot of her anxieties come out: kids are staring at her, she doesn’t understand what’s going on in class; she feels left out. I just hold her and let her express her feelings. Then I remind her that those worries are just thoughts, and that we can come [...]

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