Dysregulated Kids

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How To Discipline A Teenager For Disrespect: Positive Parenting Hacks

How To Discipline A Teenager For Disrespect: Positive Parenting Hacks When it comes to having teenagers, most parents feel that some level of escalations are part of their day. These developmentally normal situations happen partly because teenagers go through a swirl of hormones, emotions, and newfound independence. Teens  test boundaries because they’re not entirely sure where they are. So, before

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Dysregulated Kids Guide

ADHD Treatments: A Holistic Approach to Managing Your Child’s Symptoms

ADHD Treatments: A Holistic Approach to Managing Your Child’s Symptoms As a parent of a child or teenager with ADHD, you understand the uphill battle of finding the right support to help your child thrive in both school and home settings. It can feel like an exhausting journey, filled with countless attempts and frustrations as you search for effective solutions.

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IEP Goals for Self-Regulation

IEP Goals for Self-Regulation and Social-Emotional Learning

Parents want their children to succeed in school, but what happens when learning is hampered by poor self-regulation and social-emotional skills? For many reasons children and teens can struggle with self-regulation that affects their social and emotional learning. Many of the dysregulated kids I work with have clinical issues such as ADHD, autism, learning and processing issues, anxiety, mood disorders,

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Social Skills and Emotional Regulation

Social Emotional Learning: Regulation Strategies for Home and School

When a parent of a dysregulated kid comes to me, they not only express their worry about big overactions at home but how it affects the child socially. Lucas was a middle schooler who struggled with emotional and behavioral regulation his whole life.  He was already kicked out of three schools by the time I met him at age 12.

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Co-Regulation and Parenting Sharing Your CALM

Co-Regulation and Parenting: Sharing Your CALM

Parenting is a rewarding but challenging journey that requires us to guide our children as they navigate the ups and downs of life. One of the most important skills we can teach our children is emotional regulation, which is the ability to manage big feelings and stay calm in the face of challenges.  However, teaching emotional regulation isn’t always easy,

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Magnesium Deficiency Symptoms

What are the Signs of Magnesium Deficiency?

Magnesium plays a crucial role in brain and mental health. Studies have shown that daily magnesium intake decreases depression and anxiety in adults (Jacka et al., 2009). On the other hand, low magnesium levels are linked to callous or unemotional traits in children.  Maintaining your child’s magnesium normal range through diet or supplements to support overall health, including brain and

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Impulsive Behaviors in Kids Is It ADHD or Something Else

Impulsive Behaviors in Children: Causes, Consequences, and Coping Mechanism

Telling Jeffery not to touch his brother for the one-millionth time. The second call this week from the school was about behavior on the bus. Another set of stitches from the walk-in clinic. This is the life of a parent with an impulsive child… Impulsive behaviors in children can be challenging for parents, caregivers, and kids too. While some kids

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How to Deal with Emotional Dysregulation

How to Deal with Emotional Dysregulation

All kids experience emotional upset but some children are more prone to episodes of emotional or behavioral dysregulation. When children or teens are more sensitive that often equates to more stress for parent and child.  Emotional dysregulation describes emotional responses that are poorly regulated and do not fall within traditional criteria for emotional reactions. Mood swings, marked mood fluctuations, and

Read More »
Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge -

Calm the Brain: What is BrainBehaviorReset™?

With chronic stress being the norm for kids and families today, we look for ways to calm down our busy brain; some healthy, some unhealthy. However, for most, it is easy for stress to creep up and for a person to get “stuck” in behavioral patterns that don’t serve them. Getting easily upset, emotional eating, binge watching shows to avoid

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how to discipline a teenager for disrespect

How To Discipline A Teenager For Disrespect: Positive Parenting Hacks

How To Discipline A Teenager For Disrespect: Positive Parenting Hacks When it comes to having teenagers, most parents feel that some level of escalations are part of their day. These developmentally normal situations happen partly because teenagers go through a swirl of hormones, emotions, and newfound independence. Teens  test boundaries because they’re not entirely sure where they are. So, before

Read More »
Dysregulated Kids Guide

ADHD Treatments: A Holistic Approach to Managing Your Child’s Symptoms

ADHD Treatments: A Holistic Approach to Managing Your Child’s Symptoms As a parent of a child or teenager with ADHD, you understand the uphill battle of finding the right support to help your child thrive in both school and home settings. It can feel like an exhausting journey, filled with countless attempts and frustrations as you search for effective solutions.

Read More »
IEP Goals for Self-Regulation

IEP Goals for Self-Regulation and Social-Emotional Learning

Parents want their children to succeed in school, but what happens when learning is hampered by poor self-regulation and social-emotional skills? For many reasons children and teens can struggle with self-regulation that affects their social and emotional learning. Many of the dysregulated kids I work with have clinical issues such as ADHD, autism, learning and processing issues, anxiety, mood disorders,

Read More »
Social Skills and Emotional Regulation

Social Emotional Learning: Regulation Strategies for Home and School

When a parent of a dysregulated kid comes to me, they not only express their worry about big overactions at home but how it affects the child socially. Lucas was a middle schooler who struggled with emotional and behavioral regulation his whole life.  He was already kicked out of three schools by the time I met him at age 12.

Read More »
Co-Regulation and Parenting Sharing Your CALM

Co-Regulation and Parenting: Sharing Your CALM

Parenting is a rewarding but challenging journey that requires us to guide our children as they navigate the ups and downs of life. One of the most important skills we can teach our children is emotional regulation, which is the ability to manage big feelings and stay calm in the face of challenges.  However, teaching emotional regulation isn’t always easy,

Read More »
Magnesium Deficiency Symptoms

What are the Signs of Magnesium Deficiency?

Magnesium plays a crucial role in brain and mental health. Studies have shown that daily magnesium intake decreases depression and anxiety in adults (Jacka et al., 2009). On the other hand, low magnesium levels are linked to callous or unemotional traits in children.  Maintaining your child’s magnesium normal range through diet or supplements to support overall health, including brain and

Read More »
Impulsive Behaviors in Kids Is It ADHD or Something Else

Impulsive Behaviors in Children: Causes, Consequences, and Coping Mechanism

Telling Jeffery not to touch his brother for the one-millionth time. The second call this week from the school was about behavior on the bus. Another set of stitches from the walk-in clinic. This is the life of a parent with an impulsive child… Impulsive behaviors in children can be challenging for parents, caregivers, and kids too. While some kids

Read More »
How to Deal with Emotional Dysregulation

How to Deal with Emotional Dysregulation

All kids experience emotional upset but some children are more prone to episodes of emotional or behavioral dysregulation. When children or teens are more sensitive that often equates to more stress for parent and child.  Emotional dysregulation describes emotional responses that are poorly regulated and do not fall within traditional criteria for emotional reactions. Mood swings, marked mood fluctuations, and

Read More »
Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge -

Calm the Brain: What is BrainBehaviorReset™?

With chronic stress being the norm for kids and families today, we look for ways to calm down our busy brain; some healthy, some unhealthy. However, for most, it is easy for stress to creep up and for a person to get “stuck” in behavioral patterns that don’t serve them. Getting easily upset, emotional eating, binge watching shows to avoid

Read More »
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