Erica Stauffer
My childhood was filled with country meadows, strife, and lessons that have both benefited me and haunted me during my adult life. I grew up in a family of 6, among them two sisters and a brother. Although we fought like cats and dogs, I love them all and am a better person today for having grown up with them.
I have struggled with depression and anxiety since the age of 15 and...
Dr. Stern is a father, husband, son, "former therapist," ADHD coach, and avid child advocate. He works from home while caring for his two young children.
As an advocate in the ADHD community, Dr. Stern firmly believes in making sure the right information gets into the hands of the people who need it the most. He has often said, "There is too much misinformation about ADHD that...
I am a psychology major who writes about the use of diapers to manage bedwetting with older children and teenagers. In addition my writings are also applicable to adults who wet the bed and need to wear diapers to deal with the issue.
I have written a blog called Tips on Managing Bedwetting. The web address for this blog is...
With eighteen years experience and commitment to entertaining kids and adults Mike has performed at hundreds of venues from Birthday Parties, Child Care Centers, Clubs, School fetes to Shopping Centers, corporate and private functions.
Mike is also a father which helps him relate to children on an even deeper level enabling Mike to understand the way children think and behave. Mikes philosophy...
My heart has carried this deep desire to be part of a special club for kids suffering from food allergies ever since my oldest child was diagnosed in 2007 with a chronic multifocal tic disorder and eventually celiac disease. After a food allergy test revealed the need to eliminated 15 foods from his diet I became completely overwhelmed with our situation. At that time I knew very little about...
The Web site of the National Institutes of Health: Eunice Kennedy Shriver national Institute of Child Health & Human Development. (http://www.nichd.nih.gov)
The NICHD was initially established to investigate the broad aspects of human development as a means of understanding developmental disabilities, including intellectual and developmental disabilities, and the events that...
I am a stay at home mother to 7 children. My blog is about my youngest child Ava, who was born profoundly deaf in June, 2008. She received cochlear implants and had them activated when she was 10 months old. Today she has age appropriate speech and language. The blog is about Ava's journey to the hearing world and I regularly report on her progress, challenges and everyday life with a deaf...
As a mother of two healthy, busy boys I was taken back when my third child was diagnosed with a soup of congenital heart defects (CHD) while still in utero. His conditions include: double inlet left ventricle (DILV), Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA), a large ASD which has now been modified to create a single atrium, pulmonary atresia, and dextrocardia. He has already undergone two open...
I'm a stay-at-home mom of fraternal twin boys, plus I attend graduate school (special education and reading.) I also have clinical depression, and I deal with it daily. One of my twins has high functioning autism/Asperger's Syndrome. I'm interested in the connection between depression and having a child/children with special needs. Each day I try to do better than the last. My blog is a...
The Web site of Let's Move! (http://www.letsmove.gov)
The Let’s Move! campaign, started by First Lady Michelle Obama, has an ambitious national goal of solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight. Let’s Move! will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity...
