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Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge

How to support your young adult child with failure to launch syndrome (FLS) is a challenge for many parents. There are many reasons why some teens and young adults fail to launch but ultimately mental health issues are part of the struggle. Here are Dr. Roseann's best parent strategies for dealing with a failure to launch adult child.

Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesMany parents of teens and young adults are facing the challenge of helping their children transition into independent adulthood. This phenomenon, often referred to as

Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesIf screen time feels like a constant battle, you’re not alone.Many parents today are overwhelmed trying to balance technology, schoolwork, and emotional well-being. Th

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Estimated reading time: 12 minutesFeeling like your child’s behavior or emotions have taken over the whole house? You’re not the only parent who feels stretched thin and unsure where to even start.A S

Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesEver feel like your child’s emotions switch faster than a weather app? One minute sunshine. The next? Storm clouds. You’re not alone. Every parent rides that same wild

Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge

As we go through our day-to-day lives, we don’t often think about the impact of our family’s behavior on how we act today. The truth is, our family behavior patterns often dictate how we navigate through our lives. We learn from our family—mostly our parents—how to parent and manage stress. Without our conscious awareness, what we learned in our families influences our thinking patterns, as well as how we respond to a variety of stimuli.

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Parents worry whether their child’s shyness is just part of their personality later allowing them to navigate the world more as a happy viewer or whether the problem lies in their anxiety. Social anxiety causes many children social development problems that can lead to issues with school as well as friends.

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Sensory processing is a simple process of having our senses send messages to the nervous system. After this occurs, motor and behavioral responses are then developed. The senses that people have such as smell and touch help the body and brain interpret and respond predictably to the environment around them.

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Temper tantrums are a normal and common part of child development and raising children, and parents often struggle with how to manage them. All the parenting books and parenting classes discuss the “terrible twos” and how to handle toddler tantrums, but as children approach five and six, a kid throwing tantrums may trigger worry. While parents become concerned that they reflect a deeper concern, for most kids they are a part of typical child development. Sometimes, however, they are a sign of a problem that needs to be addressed when they occur with intensity, length, and frequency.

Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge

Raising children is a challenging job, to say the least. On a daily basis, parents face the arduous tasks of being protectors, nourishers, comforters, teachers, guides, companions, and advocates for their children.  Since life does not stand still, stress can often seem like a familiar part of the everyday routine. Sometimes, it’s hard to see the difference between good parenting and bad parenting because each child is different.