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Children and Depression - A Parent's Primer

What happens when a child is depressed? Dr. Marshall Korenblum, chief psychiatrist at Hincks-Dellcrest, lays it out there for parents.

Your Child's Brain

If your child's brain is going to make 1000-trillion connections by age three, here's what parents need to know...

Anxiety & Imagination

Which comes first: a child's vivid imagination or anxiety? Are they related? Psychologist Robin Alter sorts it out for us.

Positive Parenting Helps Kids' Brains

Jennifer Kolari explains how positive parenting stimulates oxytocin in a child's brain and why that's a good thing.

How Hyper is Your Child?

Where does your child sit on a scale of sleepy to alert to hyperactive? And why does it matter?

Children and Depression - A Parent's Primer

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Your Child's Brain

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The Essential Need for Self-Regulation

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Dr. Gabor Maté: Consequences of Stressed Parenting
1:21:33 | May 14, 2012 Comments Watch this »
Dr. Gabor Maté on the consequences of stressed parenting
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Meeting the Winner of Our Brain Power Conference Give Away
May 10, 2012 Comments Read more »
Cheryl and I recently went to the Brain Power Conference in Toronto. And we were fortunate to meet up with some parents who follow us on Twitter and Facebook...including Stephanie Ly - a thoughtful, engaged Mom, who won tickets in our Brain Power Conference ticket giveaway.
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Abolishing the Stigma of Mental Illness
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Half of all mental illness begins before the age of 14. Not only do we have to recognize the signs in our children, but we have to be willing to talk about it. My daughter's school did something extraordinary yesterday to help kids do just that.
Dr. Gabor Maté: Stress and the Link to Overall Health
53:01 | May 8, 2012 Comments Watch this »
Dr. Gabor Maté: How stress can cause disease.
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Can You Build a Better Brain?
May 8, 2012 Comments Read more »
The Brain Power Conference exposed parents, teachers, researchers to the rather new world of neuroeducation and the idea that we can help our kids build better brains for learning. We have highlights.
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Special Needs - do the numbers tell the story?
May 7, 2012 Comments Read more »
A new report from People for Education questions whether the dropping numbers on waiting lists for special needs testing actually reflects an improvement.
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Brain Power
May 2, 2012 Comments Read more »
TVOParents is off to the first annual Brain Power Conference. The name alone signals a shift in how we think about learning and the emerging area of brain science.
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Memorizing Shakespeare - Working that Working Memory
May 1, 2012 Comments Read more »
My 16-year-old daughter is trying to memorize 50 lines of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It's an all too rare chance for her to practise her working memory, if you ask me.
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Did I Get Cancer Because My Parents Yelled at Me?
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Does a stressful childhood lead to disease later in life? 
Cystic Fibrosis for Parents and Caregivers
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Your Child's Mental Health
April 27, 2012 Comments Read more »
One in five of us will suffer from mental illness at some point in our lives and half of all cases begin before the age of 14. We have to pay attention to our kids' mental health.
The Child Development and Community Conference
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How Racism Affects Mental Health
13:40 | April 26, 2012 Comments Watch this »
Kwame McKenzie, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, explains how racism can lead to poor mental and physical health in children and what parents and communities can do to protect them.
Anxiety and Imagination
14:29 | April 26, 2012 Comments Watch this »
Psychologist Robin Alter explains how a vivid imagination can cause childhood anxiety and how to help kids deal with it.
Childhood Depression: A Parent's Primer
12:35 | April 25, 2012 Comments Watch this »
Childhood Depression: How to spot it and what to do about it
TVOParents at the Child Development and Community Conference
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A photographic look at Child and Development and Community Conference organized by KMT Learning Group. Appearing are the host of TVOParents.com Cheryl Jackson, Gordon Neufeld, Jennifer Kolari, Dr. Gabor Mate, Tara Anchel and Karen Thornton.
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