The Children’s Treatment Center

A family gathering can ask a lot of a child at once: greet unfamiliar relatives, wait for a meal, tolerate noise, share toys, and remain cheerful after a long drive. What looks like poor manners may sometimes be a child running out of capacity in an unfamiliar setting.

At The Children's Center, our multidisciplinary services include parenting support, behavior...

Key Takeaways Learning disorders affect specific academic skills. They do not reflect a child’s intelligence, effort, or potential. Repeated struggle, correction, comparison, and misunderstanding can contribute to anxiety and a negative academic self-concept. Anxiety can then make concentrating, remembering, starting work, and demonstrating knowledge even harder. Effective su...

Key Takeaways Parent accommodation means changing family behavior or routines to reduce a child’s anxiety in the moment. Accommodation usually comes from love and may be appropriate in some situations, but repeated avoidance and reassurance can unintentionally keep anxiety strong. Reducing accommodation should be gradual, predictable, and paired with warmth, confidence, and c...