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5 Crucial Ways To Support Your Child As They Head Back To School

Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

It’s mid-august, and that means back-to-school season, so the next three blog posts are here to help support your transition to that this time brings. There can be a lot of stress associated with back-to-school season. For some, back-to-school means an increased risk of in person bullying (as well as social media bullying) and scary headlines that include school shootings, piled on top of the normal stressors of navigating growing up and figuring out a career goal and growing from a child’s body into an adult body and all the growing pains in between, as well as …

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Aug 14 2023

Childhood Trauma Is Scary, Here Are 3 Things That Can Help Your Child Be Resilient

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

There is so much hurting our children. Bullying and isolation and social media pressure and scary headlines that include school shootings, piled on top of the normal stressors of navigating growing up and figuring out a career goal and growing from a child’s body into an adult body and all the growing pains in between, as well as getting adequate nutrition and adequate sleep and it’s just all so stressful. So today I wanted to offer something positive that we can do to protect the physical and mental well being of our children for the rest of …

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May 31 2022

Adult Onset ADHD Totally Different Than Childhood ADHD

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

Ever since I blogged about 5 Holistic Ways To Treat ADHD a few weeks ago, I’ve gotten dozens of emails from readers wondering if the same approach would help them with their adult ADHD too. So this is the perfect time to update you on the latest medical research about adult onset ADHD and give you a few additional recommendations. Although adulthood ADHD can absolutely simply be a continuation for childhood ADHD, researchers are now finding out that there is a separate, totally different, adult onset ADHD syndrome. This is important to understand, because currently to have a …

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Aug 29 2016

Poor Sleep Equals Weight Gain, Even For Children

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

Continuing my focus of supporting the health of our children during this back-to-schoool month… …today’s article is a reminder about just how crucial it is for children to get good sleep. Just published in The Journal Of Pediatrics, a new study finds that an earlier bedtime for young children reduces their risk of obesity as a teenager. As we’ve already touched on, sleep helps with focus and concentration in children, as evidenced by this study on the relationship between ADHD and sleep. And we also know that sleep is absolutely required for the long term function of our brain, …

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Aug 22 2016

Bullying Is No Joke, 3 Ways To Protect Your Kids

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

Continuing in this Back-To-School month with a focus on the health of our children, let’s talk about something uncomfortable. Let’s talk about something that we *need* to be talking about more. Let’s talk about something positive that we can do to protect the physical and mental well being of our children for the rest of their lives: end bullying. Published in JAMA Psychiatry in Feb, 2016, the largest study ever to look at childhood bullying documents something we already *know* — that victims of bullying in childhood have painful, lasting ramifications well into adulthood. The Study: …

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Aug 15 2016

Back To School Special: The Latest Medical Studies On ADHD

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

Recently published in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) on May 31, 2016… …researchers found that the stimulant methylphenidate (commonly prescribed for children to treat ADHD: Ritalin, Daytrana, Concerta) increases the risk of cardiac arrhythmias. It’s back-to-school time… a time when children are often diagnosed and treated for ADHD (average age of diagnosis of ADHD: 7 years old.) 11% of the American pediatric population is awarded a diagnosis of ADHD… …with about 6% of all of our children in the United States actively on a Rx medication to treat it. With that many children being medicated, it’s very important …

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Aug 1 2016

Don’t Use ADHD Meds (This Works Better Anyway…)

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

There is no longer any convincing evidence left that kids should be considered for Rx methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta, etc…) In fact, a new study now urges physicians to use caution when prescribing these medications and reveals that there is no data to support the use of these prescriptions, especially in light of the serious side effects they can cause. Published on Nov 25, 2015 in the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, researchers looked at over 185 randomized control trials that evaluated the use of ADHD meds in over 12,000 children in the USA, Canada and Europe. The details: The …

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Jan 19 2016

5 Crucial Ways To Support Your Child As They Head Back To School

Childhood Trauma Is Scary, Here Are 3 Things That Can Help Your Child Be Resilient

Adult Onset ADHD Totally Different Than Childhood ADHD

Poor Sleep Equals Weight Gain, Even For Children

Back To School Special: The Latest Medical Studies On ADHD

Don’t Use ADHD Meds (This Works Better Anyway…)

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