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Impulsive behavior is often the cause of other negative toddler behaviors such as hitting and toy grabbing. How can a parent help a toddler through the impulsive stage?

Much of the early information about AD/HD has changed over time. Adding to the confusion are the number of other conditions with similar symptoms.

When kids with ADD or ADHD are unable to follow directions and listen in the classroom, it can be frustrating to teachers and a disruption to all students.

Reactive hypoglycemia can be avoided by following a low blood sugar diet, which avoids foods that increase blood sugar levels too sharply.

A classic symptom of an ADHD child is the inability to sit still for learning. But will wiggling and fidgeting behavior inhibit a student or help him focus?

Brain development at 12 changes personalities, behaviour and even thinking. Parents think kids have turned bad. Tweens are afraid their parents are right.

Disability theologies look at the broken body of the resurrected Christ as a metaphor. The learning-disabled find little comfort in that theopoetic.

Reactive Attachment Disorder is usually found in abused, abandoned children who have been adopted or in foster care. It may be genetic and have nothing to do with abuse.

The DSM uses five axes to analyze, classify, and describe these data. The patient (or subject) presents himself to a mental health diagnostician, is evaluated, tests are

A whopping 40% of Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia Nervosa patients have co-morbid personality disorders (mostly Cluster B - Narcissistic, Histrionic, Antisocial, Borderline).

A whopping 40% of Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia Nervosa patients have co-morbid personality disorders (mostly Cluster B - Narcissistic, Histrionic, Antisocial, Borderline).