01 September 2014

Girls With Glasses - I'm Not Fancy (Parody). Such is the life of a parent.

I've always liked Brooke White's music, and it seems she has recently partnered up in a new duo called Girls With Glasses. And they just released a new parody about not being fancy while parenting a toddler.


27 August 2014

#HowToDad

Finally advertising that shows that dad's get it too! And that they aren't useless.


20 August 2014

How Childhood Trauma Could Be Mistaken for ADHD

Dr. Nicole Brown’s quest to understand her misbehaving pediatric patients began with a hunch.

Brown was completing her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, when she realized that many of her low-income patients had been diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

These children lived in households and neighborhoods where violence and relentless stress prevailed. Their parents found them hard to manage and teachers described them as disruptive or inattentive. Brown knew these behaviors as classic symptoms of ADHD, a brain disorder characterized by impulsivity, hyperactivity, and an inability to focus.

When Brown looked closely, though, she saw something else: trauma. Hyper-vigilance and dissociation, for example, could be mistaken for inattention. Impulsivity might be brought on by a stress response in overdrive.