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How to Help Your Child Learn Healthy Ways to Tolerate Frustration

As a parent, it’s crucial for you to have age-appropriate expectations for tolerating frustration. Children’s abilities develop over time, and younger children are likely to struggle more with frustration than older children. Read more >>

DBT: A Tool That Can Enhance Group Therapy with Mindfulness, Emotional Regulation, and Interpersonal Skills

Children’s Health Council facilitates therapeutic DBT skills groups to give teenagers an environment where they can interact with their peers as they practice their DBT skills. These groups are a great setting for teens to get comfortable with their new… Read more >>

Gender-Diverse & Transgender Children

Research suggests that gender is something we are born with; it can’t be changed by any interventions. It is critically important that children feel loved and accepted for who they are. Read more >>

The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes

The Gender Creative Child guides parents and professionals through the rapidly changing cultural, medical, and legal landscape of gender and identity. Read more >>

How To Support Your Child as They Explore Their Gender Identity

You think you’ve picked up some clues that your child is questioning their gender, but what’s the next step? Should you approach them? Wait for them to come to you? Read more >>

The Importance of Learning to Let Go

It’s the start of a new school year, and parents of college students everywhere are helping their kids pack up and head back to campus. But for some families, sending their kids off to college doesn’t mean letting go…in fact, Read more >>

Why is School So Challenging for Autistic Children?

Autistic kids spend a lot of time in school learning how to cope with an environment that is often out of sync with their abilities and challenges. Read more >>

Help Your Teen Cope with Stress

Teenagers face a variety of stresses. Whatever the cause, starting down the road to adulthood has its own special challenges. Read more >>

Neurodiversity and Autism Scholarships

Neurodiversity highlights the richness of human differences. These scholarships help break down barriers to education and empower neurodiverse individuals to achieve their academic and personal goals. Read more >>

Children and Gender Identity: Supporting Your Child

If your child has questions about gender identity or gender expression, you probably have questions too. Find out what you can do to help and support your child. What are the basics of gender identity? Sex assigned at birth and Read more >>

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