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Dental health, unfortunately, does not come easy to us. In today’s world, it requires constant effort. One of them is the use of dental night guards. Let’s take a closer look at their features and purpose of use.

“How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, which offers effective techniques for fostering open and respectful communication.Whether it’s talking back, ignoring instructions, or showing defiance, disrespect towards authority figures should be addressed swiftly. Establish clear expectations for respectful behavior and enforce consequences for disrespectful actions. Model respectful communication and teach empathy and understanding towards others.

Addiction, a complex condition often characterized by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequences, continues to be a significant public health issue, as we start 2024. It’s not merely an individual’s dilemma; it can lead to socio-psychological consequences that may affect families and communities at large. Individuals struggling with addiction may face debilitating mental health issues, strained relationships, and decreased productivity, leading to societal costs related to healthcare, crime, and lost work productivity. According to the latest 2023 data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), an estimated 23.3 million people needed treatment for a substance use disorder in America. Tragically, only about 10% of them received the necessary treatment. However, these statistics also reveal a silver lining, demonstrating the resilience and courage of those who embark on the path to recovery.

Positive reinforcement: Encourage and praise good behavior, focusing on the positives instead of constantly highlighting the negatives.Setting clear expectations: Establish clear, age-appropriate expectations and boundaries for behavior, ensuring that your child understands the rules and the reasons behind them.Natural consequences: Whenever possible, allow children to experience the natural consequences of their actions, helping them to learn from their mistakes and understand the importance of making responsible choices.Logical consequences: When natural consequences are not applicable or safe, implement logical consequences that are directly related to the misbehavior and teach the child how to make better choices in the future.Open communication: Foster open and honest communication by actively listening to your child’s feelings and concerns, validating their emotions, and working together to resolve conflicts or challenges.Modeling appropriate behavior: Demonstrate appropriate behavior and emotional regulation by managing your own emotions and reactions in difficult situations, providing your child with a positive example to follow.Parent-child collaboration: Involve your child in problem-solving and decision-making processes, allowing them to take ownership of their actions and develop a sense of autonomy.While discipline is necessary for teaching children about boundaries and acceptable behavior, relying on threats of consequences can have negative long-term effects on their emotional and psychological well-being.

If you have a child that ignores all of the consequences given to them, it can be frustrating. It can even make you feel hopeless, but there are a few ways to work around this and make consequences stick, no matter how resilient your child may seem.When kids act as though consequences do not bother them, they aren’t doing so to be bad. They are doing so because consequences make them feel powerless and by shrugging it off, they are taking some of their power back.

As parents, a major part of our job is to discipline our children and help them to grow into the best people possible. However, this can get quite tricky, when your efforts to discipline your child turn out to be fruitless.While I tend to try to resort to punishment as a last-ditch effort, there are those moments when a time-out is necessary or another form of punishment. However, what I never expected was for my son to shrug off my attempts to discipline him.

People-pleasing, overhelping, overgiving—we can give it lots of different names, but the consequences to putting yourself last all the time are generally the same.

I have struggled with body image and eating concerns for the majority of my life. I barely remember a time when I didn’t have problems surrounding my body and food, and I have been clinically diagnosed with multiple eating disorders since 2007. Recently, I was in partial hospitalization for my eating disorders, followed by intensive outpatient and now, outpatient care. I still see my therapist twice a week for my various mental illnesses and I have phone check-ins with her multiple times a week. Throughout my life, I have been in treatment multiple times, but it has only been this recent round of care that I have pledged to take care of my mental and physical health for the first time.

Criminal psychologist Robert D. Hare once said: Not all psychopaths were in prison. Some of them were sitting right there in the boardroom. Hare co-authored the book Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work with Industrial psychologist Paul Babiak.

In life, choices are inevitable. Although they start small, as we age we are presented with monumental choices that have the power to shape the course of our everyday life. Would you say that you truly understand the importance of the choices you make? If you’ve never really consider the outcomes to the actions you take, you will after reading these insightful quotes about choices.

A peer-reviewed academic journal called Personality and Individual Differences (PAID) published a research study in 2020 that understandably sparked criticism from thousands of researchers, especially from psychological scientists who specialize in borderline personality disorder (BPD), suicide and self-harm. They emphasized the article promotes stigma and may encourage a damaging narrative.

I was waiting for the subway with a colleague after a meeting where we were discussing how to attract more diverse faculty members into the trauma studies program curriculum that I chair. My colleague is a progressive social worker who has been promoting antiracist conversations for many years.

you tend to ease up on everyone else around you. Which makes you way more fun to be around.

– ConflictedMomHi ConflictedMom:Boy did this question resonate with me. Deciding whether we should allow our son (who has ADHD) to “sink or swim” took center stage for most of his high school years! That said, I’m going to put on my parenting hat to lend you my perspective: Knowing when to step in or stand back is NEVER a one-size-fits-all decision.

Lauren is a freelance journalist focused on elevating the well-being of women and the LGBTQ+ community. She specializes in patient advocacy and justice.

Two months ago, I began a position as an activities assistant at a memory care center for people with various forms and stages of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease. During the pandemic, I never thought much about the dementia community. I only knew that the elderly population was contracting and dying of COVID-19 at higher rates than the general public. However, I did not realize until I began my job the disparities of having dementia and living in a memory care center in the middle of a global pandemic.

Parents have the legal right to make decisions for their children. They have the right and responsibility to get them medical care when they need it, to take them to the doctor, to choose how they school their children. There is only a minimal level of care expected of parents, and ironically it is the children who have to live with their parents’ choices.

As the novel coronavirus’ spread widens across the world, it’s important to stay inside. Even if you don’t like spending too much time at home, you have no choice but to follow the rules. The authorities have increased the penalties for those who don’t respect the COVID-19 restrictions. This means that, if you get caught wandering around for no reason, you could end up paying for the rest of your life. Practicing social distancing and respecting self-isolation measures play an important role in slowing down the spread of the virus.

Sometimes the words cut deep to your soul.