Many parents are surprised to learn that ADHD can be a gift when children receive the right support. Rather than focusing only on challenges, families can nurture qualities like imagination, problem-solving, and perseverance that often shine in kids with ADHD. With therapies such as DIRFloortime, children learn to harness their natural strengths while building stronger emotional connections and confidence. By shifting the perspective from “struggle” to “strength,” parents can help the...| Skill Point Therapy
Los Angeles’ emergency order blocks Senate Bill 9 lot-splits in fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades, restoring the single-family pattern that existed before the January inferno. The move underscores tensions between state housing law and local disaster realities.| The Builder's Daily
Our human default is to feel stuck, hopeless, like a victim, self-pitying. We might get passive in response, we might get angry, we might vent. But the ‘stuck’ feeling is natural. What isn’t natural is what we have to do to overcome it: we learn a healthy sense of control. We learn that there is always something we can do, even if there are also things we need to accept. We are not helpless. We can train ourselves out of helplessness in the particular area where we are tempted to give up.| Shaunti Feldhahn