Archive for the 'Child Development' Category

Raising Boys & Girls – River Oaks Talk

Enjoy listening to this live presentation on the differences in boys and girls. Hear about brain differences, hearing differences, as well as differences in learning styles and risk-taking. You will definitely be a better parent of the opposite sex child after hearing this podcast. Listen: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Anxiety in Children: Patient Examples

Listen to stories of three patients in elementary school – what their anxiety looked like and how we dealt with it. Also hear details about how anxiety often looks in teenagers. Listen: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Bedwetting

Bedwetting is very common among children. While most kids potty train in the day time between 2 and ½ to 3 years of age, most don’t train at night until roughly one year later. Still, approximately 20% of all 4 and 5 year olds are wet every morning. By age 10, it is about 5% [...]

Sports – What Age to Start

Many people often ask me, “When should I start my child in organized sports?” The best answer is not until eight years old. It is not until kids reach about eight that they can understand things like winning and losing, and the complexities of the rules of a game. ‘Having fun’ is the main reason [...]

Breastfeeding Days 5 to 30

Typically a mother’s milk begins to arrive around the third or fourth day after delivery. Most commonly, the milk comes in “like Niagra Falls,” as I often tell my mothers! This is a good thing, because around the third or fourth day, most infants are no longer satisfied by collostrum alone. As I tell folks, [...]

ADHD – Medications

So, you are worried that your child might have ADHD, or perhaps your child actually has been diagnosed with ADHD, and you are wondering, “What treatments are available? Will my child be a ‘zombie’ if we start him on medication? Will she lose her personality? Will he lose weight?” All of these are great (and [...]

Raising Girls for Fathers

Have you ever wondered why your daughter asks for help on homework before she’s really exhausted all efforts to do it by herself? Is this normal? When she tells you about her day, why does she start at the very beginning and tell about every event and every conversation with every detail? Why do girls [...]

Raising Boys for Mothers

What should a mother do when it comes to raising a son, a little person who seems so vastly different from herself? Is wrestling (or ‘fighting’ as mothers always say) normal? Why is he so fidgety and physically aggressive? Do boys feel emotions the same way as girls? Is their learning style the same as [...]

ADHD – What Is It?

Think that your child might have ADHD? Perhaps the teachers have hinted that your child might have “an attention problem.” Or you, yourself, might be genuinely concerned that something isn’t quite right concerning your child’s ability to think, remember or process information. Listen to Dr. Bill as he de-mystifies ADHD, explaining what it is, what [...]

Potty Training for Kids Less Than 2 Years

In many countries around the world potty training is completed before children turn two. How do they do it? Listen as Dr. Bill explains the advice that grandmothers in other countries (and some in the US) give on how to potty train a child who is less than two years old. It can be done! [...]