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The best inheritance  parents can give their children is a few minutes of their time each day.

A tantruming toddler is a little ball of writhing muscle and incredible strength. It's like trying to carry a greased pig past a slop bucket.

Setting limits teaches your children valuable skills they will use the rest of their lives. One day, they will report to a job where their ability to follow rules will dictate their success.

Relationships matter:  change comes through forming trusting relationships. People, not programs change people.

"Moody" and "unpredictable" are adjectives parents will often use when referring to their teenagers.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. (Peggy O'Mara)

Being a parent of a teenager can cure a person of narcissism.

When a child is disregulated - is the time parents need to be regulated.

Hurt people hurt people.

There has been an explosion in the prescribing of medication for very young children, particularly preschool and kindergarten boys (Juli Zito , Univ. of Maryland)

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Variables Affecting FASD

Prenatal alcohol consumption does not ALWAYS result in neurological damage.

Variables:

  • dose (amount of alcohol)
  • timing (stage of pregnancy)
  • genetic factors (mother and baby) (some ethnic groups are more susceptible)
  • metabolic factors (mother and baby)(some individuals have reduced enzymes to breakdown

alcohol)

Some other factors:

  • maternal weight
  • fetal weight
  • cell development at time of alcohol exposure
  • age of mother
  • maternal use of cigarettes & other toxins
  • oxygen deprivation due to maternal liver dysfunction

Some heavy drinkers do not produce FASD babies while some light drinkers do.

The critical factors or combination of factors has not been determined.

Ethanol Crosses the placenta freely.

WHEN A PREGNANT WOMAN DRINKS ALCOHOL – SO DOES HER BABY!

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Workshops

+ Behaviour Management (now available online)

This full day or 2 evening workshop will introduce you […]

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+ Lick Your Kids

  “Lick Your Kids” (figuratively not literally) (2 hours) First […]

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+ A Parent’s Guide to the Teenage Brain

  A teenager’s brain is not just an adult brain […]

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+ Reading Rescue

A program for children with reading problems

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+ Taming a Toddler

Many parents wonder what hit them when their sweet little baby turns into an unreasonable toddler – ideas for dealing with mealtime, bedtime, temper tanturms, toilet training, noncompliance, etc.

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NOL 2BO

Phone: (519) 485-4678
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Email: info@rickharper.ca

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