Parents rely on you for guidance on wide-ranging health-related concerns, often including mental health. Indeed, pediatricians and family physicians are often the first to hear parental concerns about children’s behavior problems. You probably have very limited time, and yet your response to these concerns is crucial, and can be the difference between good versus inadequate care. But staying current on kids’ mental health isn’t easy, especially when a lot of the information being passed along to pediatricians and family physicians isn’t all that helpful, anyway.

That’s why, all too often, the guidance provided to parents of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges reflects the conventional wisdom: that these challenges are attention-seeking, coercive, limit-testing, or manipulative and should be addressed through conventional discipline (reward and punishment) strategies.

That’s where Think:Kids comes in. We want to make sure that you give parents the most current, enlightened guidance about children’s challenging behavior. And neuropsychological research of the last 30 years suggests that challenging kids lack crucial cognitive skills that conventional discipline strategies don’t teach. So, we’re glad you found this website…it contains a lot of information about how challenging kids come to be challenging and how adult caretakers can help, including resources to which you can quickly point your patients.