Social skills are an important part of life at every age, but childhood is where many of these abilities first begin to grow.

Parents spend a great deal of time and money making elaborate plans for their children's summer vacations. Day camps, sleep away camps, enrichment classes, social skills groups... you name it. For many kids, every single day of summer is planned down to the last minute. For working parents, summers may present child care challenges and perhaps this is the driving force behind this growing trend of summer programming.

With the school year coming, I hear many of my clients express that they are worried about going back to school and everything that comes

It comes so naturally to us, and especially to parents to use the phrases “You are fine,” or “You are okay,” when comforting children.

Your child’s grades are suffering, they don’t have friends outside of school, and they are always irritable at home! But they say they’re