Our children carry the effects of our stress into their bodies as we prepare them for the world.  A Yale study suggests that better stress management can lower our children’s risk of obesity and its poor health outcomes.  As parents, we strive for our children to have a better life than we have lived, whether in terms of health and wealth, or peace and joy.  Striving for our own well-being and theirs can be stressful in our crazy world.  This study shows that stress and how w

For many years now, both medical professionals and parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have assumed that the primary mechanism of action for most ADHD medications are its effects in the brain areas responsible for attention.  Now a study suggests that the medications work in other parts of the brain, those involved with reward and wakefulness.  This new information not only proves that science is rarely settled, but that we need to reexamine how we treat ADHD. Researchers

If your child struggles with food aversions to many different foods and you are having trouble figuring out what to give....

The study of interest today seems pretty “Duh!” Just about every parent will attest to the effects of teenage hormones on their sweet little pre-teen.  But there is something here much more critical to the future health of our children!  This study looked at the effects of synthetic hormones known popularly as “birth control” or “the pill” on the impulsivity of teenage rats.  Their findings strongly suggest that dosing hormones in teenage rats similarly to how we dose them in