How To Connect With Your Child: Part 4 by Jordan Brand
Healthy Touch Did you know that touch is the first sense to develop inside the womb and one of the last senses that we lose? Healthy touch is crucial to …
How to Connect With Your Child: Part 3 by Jordan Brand
Transitions are hard, and this is especially so for our kids. As we transition from the less structured freedom of summertime to the regular routines of school, there is a …
How To Connect With Your Child: Part 2 by Jordan Brand
Play is critical to the development of every child. Child psychologist, Dr. David Cross, says that we can think of playfulness as an investment. The more playfulness is a part …
How to Connect with Your Child: Part 1 by Jordan Brand
Children have a way of reflecting the joy and wonder of being alive even in the most ordinary of moments during the day. In the previous post, we talked about …
How to Deal with Your Child’s Boredom during the Summertime by Jordan Brand
We all know that feeling. Around mid-summer when school’s been out just long enough to feel like the novelty of it has worn off, the temperatures outside keep rising, friends …
More Than a Candy Crush: The Life Lessons I Learned From Candy Land
While browsing last-minute gift ideas for nieces and nephews the other day, I stumbled upon an old classic–the game of Candy Land. Instantly I was transported to images of my …
Nietzsche’s Playbook
This is a picture of an Andrew Wyeth. I stared at it, at this particular angle, for a long time; examining it with head tilted, then through the camera lens, …
To My Clients About Your Meds
Dear Esteemed Clients, This letter, although personalized, is for all students/consumers of Psychiatric medications. It is written with the demoralized patient in mind and heart. I’m attending a Psychopharmacology conference …
The Time Traveler’s Guide
Twice a year we get to participate in the mystical journey of time travel, springing forward or falling backward in space, also known as Daylight Saving. For all you grammar …
Fall Reading List: Twenty By Twenty
The sun passed the celestial equator this week, ushering in the autumnal equinox with a flurry of Boston weather. Along with brown boots, over-eager squirrels, and the imminent threat of …