Kids feel things big. One minute your child is laughing at a cartoon, the next they’re in tears because their sock feels “wrong,” and an hour later they’re slamming a door because dinner wasn’t what they expected. That’s normal, to...
Nobody plans the moment they start wondering. It just happens. You are watching your child at a birthday party and something feels off, though you cannot quite put your finger on what. Or you are sitting across from a colleague at work and realising, not for the first...
Let’s be honest, most people who end up searching for ADHD testing Vancouver have already spent years wondering what’s wrong with them. Maybe you’ve been told you’re lazy. Maybe your teachers called you a daydreamer. Maybe you’ve built an...
Honestly, I put off writing about this topic for a while because it felt heavy. Mental health in kids is one of those things where parents either feel like they’re overreacting or they feel like they waited too long. There’s rarely a comfortable middle...
My neighbour called me last spring, completely at a loss. Her eight-year-old had started crying every night before bed, saying he didn’t want to go to school. Not because of bullying, not because of grades, he just couldn’t explain it. She kept waiting for...
Most people don’t decide to get assessed for ADHD on a whim. Usually there’s a breaking point. Maybe a teacher pulled a parent aside for the third time. Maybe someone got passed over at work again and couldn’t figure out why. Maybe a person just hit...
