Dr. Kim Grengs
Build Your Teen’s Self Esteem

Build Your Teen’s Self Esteem

Parenting teens is tough work. You want your teens to feel confident in their skin. The teenage years can be the most challenging for kids and their parents. They can be the most awkward in a person’s life. How can you build your teen's self esteem? Great question!...

How Can School Help My Anxious Child?

How Can School Help My Anxious Child?

"My child has anxiety and is anxious about so many things, so how can school help?" This is a question many parents ask and they should ask it. Because, the beauty about school is that there are many resources available. Some resources are people in the school. The...

How To Respond, Not React, To My Kids

How To Respond, Not React, To My Kids

Parenting is difficult and challenging. There are times when I lose my cool and feel awful afterwards. How do I respond to my child’s feelings without reacting to them? How can I respond not react? Great question! Staying calm seems like the right thing to do, but how...

How To Get Your Child To Talk To You

How To Get Your Child To Talk To You

Do you struggle with getting your kids to talk to you? It seems like when they are young, like toddler age, they ask questions and talk all day long. So what happens when they get to upper elementary, middle and high school age? They don’t say a word and possibly hide...

Do Kids Really Have Summer Anxiety?

Do Kids Really Have Summer Anxiety?

ARE YOUR KIDS ANXIOUS? Most kids are excited for summer, right?  But many more are not excited. They don't know how to tell us and, frankly, they don't know why they are feeling the way they do. One in eight children, in a given year, are affected by an anxiety...