For Parents

Pasta,  pizza, bagels, milk,  cereal, macaroni-and-cheese…  Are these among your child’s favorite food groups? If not all of them, it’s a  good bet that at least some of these foods [...]

The  unevenness  of skills that  is the hallmark  of a child with Functional Disconnection Syndrome is most obvious when it comes to learning, homework, and grades. A majority of children with [...]

Relative to body size, the human brain is one of the largest among all living species. But it is not just unique in size; it is also unique in structure. The  human brain is so sophisticated and [...]

Kids with a brain imbalance typically struggle to complete their homework  in an organized and timely fashion. For many parents, even the simplest homework tasks can be a struggle, and study [...]

There is a lot you can learn about your child’s brain development from their report card. But it is not enough just to read the grades and see what subjects are problematic. You need to find out [...]

  Children with neurobehavioral disorders like ADHD, processing disorders, and OCD, often experience stress and anxiety due to the various challenges they face. Diet and exercise can go a long [...]

Left brain deficiencies usually shows up first as academic problems. So, unlike their right brain counterparts, life for a child with a left brain imbalance starts out quite normally. Children  [...]

Right brain deficiencies  usually first show  up as behavioral problems. Mothers often tell me that these kids started giving them a hard time right from the get-go. These are the kids [...]

Many parents believe that playing computer games helps kids improve their minds, but this is proving to not be the case. Although research shows that playing on a computer or mobile device does [...]

Sometimes hope takes the shape of a six-year-old boy who inhaled the smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies for the first time. —MARYBETH G. Pasta, pizza, bagels, milk, cereal, macaroni, [...]